Can vitamins be swiped on a health insurance card

Vitamins are not covered by health insurance cards.

Vitamins are health food, and if the patient buys the vitamins on his own at a pharmacy, then the vitamins taken in this case are personal health care products, and therefore not covered by basic medical insurance. It is not possible to use the social security card to swipe non-medical goods such as health care and nutritional products.

Medicare reimbursement process:

1. Under normal circumstances, when you are sick and need to be hospitalized, take your medical insurance card and medical records to your designated hospital, and then you can settle the bill with your medical insurance card. That is, the self-pay part of their own payment, reimbursement part of the health insurance center and the hospital settlement;

2, if by their own designated hospitals to secondary or tertiary hospitals, with the health insurance card settlement;

3, the condition of the critical, hospitalized in a hospital that is not their own designated hospital resuscitation, within five days to the municipal health insurance center for the emergency medical resuscitation of the type of disease identified as an emergency rescue disease, identified as an emergency rescue disease, you can use the card in the The medical insurance card can be used to settle the bill at the hospital after it is recognized as an emergency rescue hospital;

4. If you are transferred to a foreign country for treatment, you can go through the referral procedures with the consent of the hospital and the medical insurance center. The expenses incurred abroad will be settled at one's own expense first, and after the end of the treatment, all the information will be reimbursed by the community labor security workstation;

5. The reimbursement of the medical insurance is calculated according to the proportion, which is generally ranging from 70%. The reimbursement rate and the amount of reimbursement are related to the examination and medication, medical grade and other factors;

6. When reimbursement is made, the insured person needs to prepare the relevant information used in the hospitalization, such as outpatient medical records, discharge records, discharge diagnosis (diagnosis of diseases), hospitalization invoices (outpatient invoices for outpatient cases), the total list of hospitalization expenses, the settlement of the medical insurance bill, and the hospitalization expenses for CT, ultrasound, ECG, and so on, if any.

7. Discharge settlement, after the submission of the relevant information, in the health insurance reimbursement window for reimbursement, after the audit, the amount of reimbursement will usually be in about 15 working days to the account.

Summary of the above, buy vitamins can not brush the social security card, vitamins belong to the health food, if the patient is in the pharmacy to buy their own vitamins, then the vitamins taken in this case belong to the personal health care products, and therefore is not in the basic health insurance coverage.

Legal basis:

Article 28 of the Social Insurance Law of the People's Republic of China

Conforms to the basic medical insurance drug catalog, diagnostic and therapeutic items, standards of medical service facilities, and the medical expenses of emergency and rescue, and will be paid from the basic medical insurance fund according to the state regulations.

Article 29

The portion of the medical expenses of insured persons that should be paid by the basic medical insurance fund shall be settled directly between the social insurance administration organization and the medical institutions and drug business units.

The administrative departments of social insurance and the administrative departments of health shall establish a settlement system for medical expenses incurred for medical treatment in other places, so as to facilitate the enjoyment of basic medical insurance by insured persons.