From October 15, Hanoi stops issuing paper health insurance cards.

Baoquocte.vn. The suspension of issuing paper health insurance cards aims to simplify paperwork and procedures, save time for people, and serve the National Digital Transformation.

Từ ngày 15/10, Hà Nội dừng phát hành thẻ bảo hiểm y tế bằng giấy

Hanoi will stop printing paper health insurance cards on October 14. (Source: VTV)

On October 12, Hanoi Social Insurance said that previously, each individual who wanted to change their initial medical examination and treatment facility or lost their insurance card or switched from participating in compulsory social insurance to receiving unemployment benefits... had to follow the procedures to have the city's Social Insurance agency print and reissue a paper insurance card.

Since the implementation of the Project on developing applications of population data, identification and electronic authentication to serve national digital transformation in the period of 2022-2025, with a vision to 2030 (Project 6), the integration of data from chip-embedded citizen identification cards has helped to check information on insurance cards more easily and accurately.

To continue to simplify documents and procedures, save time for people in general and workers in particular when transacting, and facilitate officers and employees in performing their duties at units.

Instead of printing paper cards, the City Social Security will renew cards on the data system managed by the industry.

Continue to simplify documents and procedures, save time for people in general and workers in particular when transacting, and facilitate officers and employees in performing their duties at units.

Hanoi Social Insurance has decided that from October 15, 2023, it will stop printing and issuing paper health insurance cards to the Employment Service Center to pay to workers currently receiving unemployment benefits and some other groups of people.

Instead of printing paper cards, the City Social Security will renew cards on the data system managed by the industry.

In order to ensure the rights of social insurance participants, Hanoi City Social Insurance requests relevant parties to inform about the suspension of printing paper insurance cards when employees submit applications for unemployment benefits so that they know and coordinate implementation.

Workers can still use previously issued paper health insurance cards to go to medical examinations and treatment under health insurance, because the data has been integrated electronically by the city's social insurance agency.

Hanoi Social Insurance also requested that health insurance medical examination and treatment facilities in the area coordinate to guide and receive health insurance cards on the VssID application, VNeID electronic identification application, and chip-embedded citizen identification cards to conduct medical examinations for people and workers, ensuring full rights according to regulations.

In case, health insurance participants come to transact at medical examination and treatment facilities but have not installed or have installed but have not successfully activated the VssID application, the VNeID level 2 electronic identification application (with integrated health insurance card), the chip-embedded citizen identification card has not been synchronized with health insurance participation data, the health insurance participants should directly contact the hotline of the Hanoi Social Insurance Agency via phone number 024.37236555 or go to the nearest Social Insurance agency for support.

In response to comments about some elderly people who are used to using paper insurance cards and have difficulty accessing information technology applications, the City Social Insurance said that if requested, paper insurance cards will still be issued.

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