Can the medical insurance card be used for outpatient consultation across the province?

You can't use your health insurance card for outpatient treatment in other places.

Only those who have filed a record in a different place can swipe their medical insurance card at the hospitalization. If the insured person has applied for the basic medical insurance referral filing or the permanent residence (resident) filing procedures before the medical treatment in a different place, and if the insured person has been treated in the second-class and above social security designated hospitals in the different medical treatment, he/she can be reimbursed in a normal way.

Medicare record steps:

1, to the health insurance location of the district and county level social security center for the record, employee health insurance to work in the location shall prevail, with my ID card and social security card, fill out the "registration form for medical treatment in a different place";

2, select the fixed-point hospitals, the record is not just to go to a hospital to see a doctor can be directly billed, and can only be in the network of fixed-point hospitals already;

2, choose the fixed-point hospitals, not just go to a hospital can be directly billed, and can only be used in the hospitals have networked

3, medical insurance card, cross-provincial medical treatment, in the reimbursement of some hospitals can be directly in the hospital hall of the manual window for reimbursement settlement, if it is the outpatient costs have to advance their own, and then back to the insured place for reimbursement. Different regions have slightly different reimbursement rates and coverage, and the same province will be subject to the health insurance policy of the participating places.

In summary, health insurance cardholders should activate their social security cards within six months of receiving the card, during which time the card can still be used normally, and the original card will automatically be invalidated after the activation of the social security card, and if the card is not activated after the expiration of the time limit, the original card will be restricted from being used.

Legal basis:

Article 2 of the Social Insurance Law of the People's Republic of China

The State establishes a social insurance system for basic pension insurance, basic medical insurance, industrial injury insurance, unemployment insurance, maternity insurance, and so on, to safeguard the right of citizens to obtain material assistance from the State and society in accordance with the law in the event of old age, sickness, industrial injury, unemployment and childbirth.

Article 3

The social insurance system adheres to the policy of broad coverage, basic protection, multi-level and sustainability, and the level of social insurance shall be commensurate with the level of economic and social development.

Article 4

Employing units and individuals within the territory of the People's Republic of China*** and the State pay social insurance premiums in accordance with the law, and have the right to inquire about the records of payment of premiums and records of the rights and interests of individuals, as well as to demand that the social insurance administration organizations provide social insurance counseling and other related services.