No worries about losing your social security book or health insurance card with lifetime code
(Baonghean)- Currently, in Nghe An, each person participating in health insurance and social insurance is given a unique code for life.
Participants only need to provide their social insurance number to enjoy convenient social insurance and health insurance benefits nationwide.
The Social Security Number is the unique personal identification number of the participant, issued by the Social Security agency. This number is recorded on the Social Security book and Health Insurance card, helping to complete the management process throughout the process of participating in payment and enjoying the regime. The Social Security Number consists of 10 digits (the first 2 digits are the province code, the next 8 digits are natural numbers) and is the Social Security book number, and at the same time the last 10 digits of the Health Insurance card.
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| A unique, lifelong social insurance number brings many benefits to people in the process of using health insurance cards for medical examination and treatment. |
BSE Vietnam Electronics Co., Ltd. (Nam Cam Industrial Park, Quan Hanh, Nghi Loc) is one of the enterprises that the provincial Social Insurance has soon implemented the issuance of social insurance codes for employees. Ms. Nguyen Thi Linh (Hung Dung Ward, Vinh City) - a worker of the company excitedly shared: "When we received information about issuing social insurance codes for employees, the Social Insurance agency came to our place to guide us on the procedures, how to look up and check our social insurance and health insurance payment process. We were very happy to see that the procedure was very quick and simple, we only needed to provide the social insurance code for the Social Insurance officer to enter into the software, and in less than 5 minutes we had the results."
For businesses, the implementation of lifelong social insurance codes also brings many practical benefits. Ms. Bui Thi Ngoc - Head of Human Resources Department of Haivina Kim Lien Company Limited said: "The company currently has about 2,300 employees. If in the past, when there were new employees, the company would have to go directly to the social insurance agency to declare information on the social insurance form for employees, now it is only necessary to enter the social insurance code for employees via the electronic system, saving a lot of time and costs. Moreover, the issuance of social insurance codes makes it much more convenient for us to check the social insurance participation time and salary of each employee in the company."
Issuing social insurance codes to participants not only improves management efficiency, reduces pressure and workload in printing and issuing social insurance books and health insurance cards annually; overcomes the current situation of one person having multiple social insurance books and health insurance cards, but also lays the foundation for implementing the issuance of electronic cards to replace social insurance books and health insurance cards to replace paper ones in the near future.
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| The social insurance code is a natural number consisting of 10 digits, which is the social insurance book number and the last 10 digits of the health insurance card. Photo: Internet |
When participants are given a social insurance code, the process of paying and receiving social insurance and health insurance for each person will be strictly and accurately controlled. In addition, the current process of changing and issuing new social insurance and health insurance cards has saved a lot of time for both the social insurance agency and participants.
In particular, when going to see a doctor or get medical treatment, people do not have to worry about forgetting or losing their health insurance card. They only need to remember their health insurance card number, along with their identification documents, to still have their medical examination and treatment rights resolved.
For health insurance examination and treatment facilities, the issuance of social insurance codes has limited the use of fake health insurance cards to abuse the health insurance fund; Health examination and treatment facilities can exploit and check information about health insurance patients in the database (medical history, drug resistance status...) managed by the social insurance agency to serve treatment work.
For the participant management unit, after the implementation period, the effectiveness is clearly seen through the shortening of the time to process procedures and support the lookup, the procedures and information that need to be declared to process the regimes as before to submit to the Social Insurance agency when processing the social insurance and health insurance regimes of participants have been removed, because the Social Insurance agency only needs to enter the participant's code and exploit the information in the database managed by the Social Insurance agency to create procedures and registration files for participation in social insurance, health insurance, unemployment insurance (BHTN); create files to adjust the personal information, contribution levels, and benefits of participants...
| To ensure their rights and know the expiration date of their card, employees can look up the expiration date of their health insurance card on the website: https://www.baohiemxahoi.gov.vn/tracuu/pages/tra-cuu-thoi-han-su-dung-.aspx. |
As for participants, after the time of issuing the social insurance code, creating maximum favorable conditions when resolving the social insurance regime and health insurance examination and treatment, updating the health insurance participation time for 5 consecutive years for participants is accurate, thus ensuring benefits when examining and treating patients.
At the same time, when continuing to register for social insurance and health insurance, confirming the participation process and resolving social insurance and health insurance regimes, participants do not need to present documents or repeat procedures as when participating for the first time, they only need to remember and report to the social insurance agency the social insurance code when doing the procedures to enjoy favorable social insurance and health insurance regimes nationwide.
Thus, after a period of implementation, the issuance of social insurance codes at Nghe An Provincial Social Insurance has been carried out synchronously and effectively, with high support from social insurance and health insurance participants in the area, employers, and medical facilities in the whole province, in accordance with the direction of the General Director of Vietnam Social Insurance Nguyen Thi Minh: The work of issuing unique social insurance codes to insurance participants is an important task, of key nature, deciding the effectiveness of the whole industry in administrative reform, towards professionalization and modernization of the policy management apparatus.
In parallel with the issuance of social insurance codes, to reduce administrative procedures, save costs, and at the same time limit the situation where patients have to wait to change their health insurance cards to go for medical examination and treatment, meeting the goal of managing health insurance cards to improve the quality of medical examination and treatment, Nghe An Social Insurance prints and issues health insurance cards according to the new model in accordance with the provisions of Decision No. 595/QD-BHXH dated April 14, 2017 of the General Director of Vietnam Social Insurance. Accordingly, from September 1, 2017, the validity period on the health insurance card will only be printed with "Validity: from date.../.../...." instead of the validity period being written from date, month, year to date, month, year as before. However, for health insurance cards issued in the previous form that have not been changed or reissued in the new form, health insurance card holders can still use them for medical examination and treatment until the time of change or reissue. |
Nguyen Ba Cuong
