Without a physical medical insurance card, residents can use their mobile phone for registration and payment at a hospital and the purchase of medicine at a pharmacy via QR code. With the launch of electronic medical insurance cards in Yubei District, a total of 592 designated medical institutions have allowed the payment through getting the QR codes of the electronic cards scanned. Yubei is striving for full coverage of all designated medical institutions in the district by the end of this year.
592 designated medical institutions have allowed the payment by getting the QR codes of the electronic cards scanned.
The electronic medical insurance card is a unified identity certificate generated by the national medical insurance information platform, with nationwide unified standards and mutual recognition across regions, which is convenient, efficient, widely used, safe and reliable. The insured could get medical insurance-related business handled nationwide with a QR code.
The person in charge of the Yubei District Medical Insurance Bureau introduced that the insured could go to a doctor and pay the medical bills at a hospital or buy medicine at drugstores by getting the QR codes scanned. They could also enjoy related online services like medical insurance information inquiry.
How to get an electronic medical insurance card? The insured can log into the third-party channels authorized by the medical insurance department, such as the national public service platform app, the app of Chongqing Municipal People's Government, and the WeChat official account and Alipay mini-program of Chongqing's medical insurance. After filling in and activating relevant personal information, they will conveniently get the electronic card. The physical card can still be used after the activation of the electronic card.