What is a medical insurance card?

Legal analysis: the medical insurance card is mainly used to reimburse medical expenses. For example, you can use the medical insurance card to pay for outpatient visits and buy medicines at pharmacies, which are all within the scope of medical insurance, and you can also use the medical insurance card to reimburse hospitalization expenses.

Legal basis: Measures for the Administration of Residents' Health Cards

Article 3 Resident Health Card refers to the information carrier used to identify residents, store personal basic health information, realize cross-regional and inter-institutional medical data exchange and expense settlement in medical and health service activities based on regional health information platform, residents' electronic health records and medical institutions' electronic medical records.

Article 4 The resident health card can be used to realize the functions of various medical and health institutions at all levels, convenient access to medical and health service information, settlement of basic medical insurance (new rural cooperative medical insurance), online inquiry of cardholder health information, etc.

Article 5 Both residents in China and residents in China can apply for resident health cards.