Can health cards be used across provinces?

Health cards can be used across provinces. Generally speaking, the main functions of health cards are resident identification, cross-regional and inter-institutional medical treatment, basic health information storage, expense settlement and financial services in medical and health service activities. For the whole society, health card is the key to realize information exchange and sharing between residents and medical institutions, and between medical institutions and social public services and other related departments.

Function of health card

1. For individual residents, the resident health card is not only the medical card of all medical and health institutions, the financial card of banks and the reimbursement card of the new rural cooperative medical system, but also a comprehensive health card for blood donation registration and child immunization. If the user needs to make relevant reimbursement, he only needs to take the card to the relevant institution.

2. As far as the whole society is concerned, health cards are conducive to information exchange and sharing between residents and medical institutions, between medical institutions, between medical institutions and social public services and other related departments, making the operation of reimbursement for medical treatment simpler and more convenient.