Medical insurance reimbursement must be designated hospitals

Legal analysis: not necessarily, in the management of social security health insurance, the treatment of disease to take the local solution, and must be in the designated hospital. The medical treatment is generally not reimbursed. However, there are two situations that can be accommodated by applying to the health insurance organization and being approved. First, the local hospital can not meet the patient's medical needs, must go to a better medical conditions of the hospital treatment, in the local designated medical institutions to put forward the proposal of the transfer, the local health insurance institutions agreed to approve the second; secondly, by the unit sent to work abroad for a long period of time and retirement arrangements for long-term residence in the field, approved by the local health insurance institutions can choose to go abroad to the designated hospitals for medical treatment, the medical expenses by the person advance payment, and reimbursement back to the local.

Law enforcement agencies can choose to pay the medical expenses at the designated hospitals in the field with the approval of the local medical insurance organizations.

Legal basis: "the Chinese people's *** and the basic medical insurance regulations for urban workers"

Article 39 approved by the social insurance agency in the off-site medical institutions for treatment, retirees residing in the off-site for more than one year, their basic medical insurance treatment in accordance with these regulations.

Article 40 The medical expenses incurred by the practitioners and retirees during their stay abroad or in Hong Kong, Macao or Taiwan shall be implemented in accordance with these Regulations.