Payment is made through the employer's withholding or the social insurance premium collection agency.
The Social Insurance Law of the People's Republic of China has corresponding provisions:
Article 60 The employer shall declare and pay the social insurance premiums on its own, in full and on time, and shall not suspend or reduce the payment except for force majeure and other legal reasons. The social insurance premiums to be paid by employees shall be withheld and paid by the employer on behalf of the employee, and the employer shall inform the employee of the details of the payment of social insurance premiums on a monthly basis.
Self-employed industrial and commercial households without employees, part-time workers who do not participate in social insurance with their employers, and other flexibly employed persons may pay social insurance premiums directly to the social insurance premium collection organization.
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Related articles of the Social Insurance Law of the People's Republic of China: ?
Article 21 The insured shall go to the designated medical institutions in the city with their social security cards to seek medical treatment and can enjoy basic medical insurance treatment. If the medical expenses incurred by a participant for outpatient treatment and hospitalization are covered by the basic medical insurance for urban workers, the individual account of the participant shall pay for the out-of-pocket expenses, and the participant shall be responsible for any shortfall in the payment of such expenses.
The medical expenses incurred by the insured persons due to the following circumstances are not included in the scope of payment by the basic medical insurance fund: those outside the scope of the provincial drug list, diagnostic and treatment items, and standards of medical service facilities; those incurred by unauthorized medical treatment and purchase of medicines in non-designated medical institutions and non-designated pharmacies; and those incurred as a result of crimes and violations of the law, suicides, self-inflicted injuries, fights and brawls, drug addiction, alcoholism, etc. The second part of the second part is the medical insurance account of urban workers.
Article 22? Basic medical insurance first class participants in the city designated medical institutions to do outpatient large-scale medical equipment inspection and treatment of the basic medical costs incurred, 80% of the basic medical insurance major illnesses coordinating fund, the local supplementary medical insurance fund to pay in accordance with the provisions.
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