Can the electronic health card be paid by medical insurance?

Legal analysis: Medical insurance card is a virtual card formed after electronic health card and electronic social security card (medical insurance card) run an APP in Zhejiang to realize mutual binding and mutual recognition. With the introduction of "medical insurance card" to pay medical expenses, medical insurance personnel settlement and medical and health care services, it can gradually replace the spontaneous physical medical card of hospitals, truly solve the problem of "multiple cards coexist and are not universal" in medical institutions, and realize the "one-stop service" of appointment registration, inspection report inquiry, medical insurance settlement and mobile payment.

Legal basis: People's Republic of China (PRC) Social Insurance Law.

Article 2 The state establishes social insurance systems such as basic old-age insurance, basic medical insurance, industrial injury insurance, unemployment insurance and maternity insurance, so as to guarantee citizens' right to receive material assistance from the state and society in accordance with the law in case of old age, illness, industrial injury, unemployment and maternity.

Twenty-sixth basic medical insurance for employees, new rural cooperative medical care and basic medical insurance for urban residents shall be implemented in accordance with state regulations.

Twenty-eighth medical expenses that meet the basic medical insurance drug list, diagnosis and treatment items, medical service facilities standards and emergency treatment and rescue shall be paid by the basic medical insurance fund in accordance with state regulations.