Can foreign social security cards be used locally?

Social security cards cannot be used in different places.

1. According to the current policy, medical insurance cannot be transferred. However, the newly promulgated social insurance law has new provisions, and medical insurance can also be transferred with individuals, and it can only be operated after the implementation of the new policy.

2. General medical insurance can only be used locally, and it is not allowed to be used across regions (except for special circumstances such as emergency treatment in different places). If you don't work in the insured place, medical insurance should go through the formalities of "medical treatment in different places", otherwise the expenses of medical treatment in different places can't be reimbursed.

Social security cards run in other places need to be transferred before they can be used after returning home.

At present, social security is coordinated by provinces and cities, not the whole country, so social security cards cannot be used nationwide. According to the data, the social security card is a personal settlement service used by residents to handle personal human resources and social security services such as social security payment, hospitalization, drug purchase in pharmacies, information inquiry, and financial services such as bank deposits, withdrawals, transfers, credit card consumption, and online banking registration. Generally speaking, social security can only buy medicine by credit card in the local area and be reimbursed in hospital. However, in some special circumstances, social security cards can also be used for reimbursement of medical treatment in different places, such as emergency treatment during business trips, major diseases that cannot be treated locally, and people who need to be referred from other places. Of course, it is necessary to go through the medical insurance registration procedures for cross-provincial medical treatment before and after treatment, which is subject to local regulations.

Legal basis: Article 32 of the Social Insurance Law.

If an individual is employed across the overall planning area, his basic medical insurance relationship will be transferred accordingly, and the payment period will be calculated cumulatively.