“It’s so convenient to pay by scanning your face without bringing a medicare card.” On July 24, Ms. Chen exclaimed in the outpatient department of Ezhou Traditional Chinese Medicine Hospital.
Ezhou Health Insurance Center actively expands the application scenarios of electronic certificate of health insurance to further make the health insurance services more convenient. At present, Ezhou has declared the first batch of 350 health insurance face-scanning devices, which have been installed by health insurance agencies at both the municipal and district levels, and 10 specially designated medical institutions (pharmacies) like Ezhou Traditional Chinese Medicine Hospital, Ezhou Mental Health Service Center and the Binhu Branch of Dashenlin (Hubei) Pharmaceutical Chain Co., Ltd. have opened the access to health insurance “face-scanning” payment.
Health insurance “face-scanning” payment takes electronic certificate of health insurance as the medium, and uniformly adopts the security verification technology of “face recognition + real-name registration + real person”. Approved by the State Health insurance Bureau, the terminal equipment and network environment can accurately identify the identity of the insured, prevent illegal behaviors such as seeking medical treatment under others’ name, medicare cards stealing and using, medicare cards cashing out, etc., and practically guarantee the security of the insured information data and health insurance funds while making health insurance settlement more convenient.
Insured persons who have activated their electronic certificate of health insurance can directly use the health insurance “face-scanning” payment, and those who have not yet activated can also consult the staff on the spot for opening. The insured can complete health insurance related services such as outpatient prescription, hospitalization expense settlement and medicine purchase through “face-scanning” authentication without using physical medicare card or operating in a mobile phone, which not only solves the trouble of forgetting to bring a medicare card or mobile phone running out of power during health insurance payment, but also solves the problem that the elderly are not good at operating with smart phones, shortens the time for the insured to travel in a hospital and buy medicines, and effectively meets the diversified health insurance payment needs of the insured.
It is reported that Ezhou Medicare Service Center will put out more health insurance face-scanning equipment to extend the reach of health insurance handy service for the public, and gradually realize the full coverage of self-service of health insurance “face-scanning” at four levels of the city, district, township and village; Efforts are made to promote the full coverage of health insurance “face-scanning” payment in specially designated medical institutions all over the city, and create a medical treatment and medicine purchase environment with more convenient process, more efficient service and more comfortable experience for the insured.