Is the newborn landing insurance and medical insurance card the same thing?

Newborn landing insurance and medical insurance card are not the same thing.

Newborn landing insurance is a kind of insurance, which is a kind of medical insurance given to the hospital as soon as the child is born. It's only for one month. Insurance can bear the emergency expenses if the baby is born unexpectedly.

Medical insurance card is a special card for personal account of medical insurance, which takes personal ID card as the identification code and stores detailed information such as personal ID card number, name, gender, payment and account capital consumption. After the insured unit pays the fee, the local medical insurance department will entrust the bank to transfer the personal account payment to the personal medical insurance card of the insured employee at the end of the month.

Medical insurance card is a functional card with a chip, which is used for identity confirmation and personal account payment of medical insurance when visiting a doctor or a pharmacy.

Newborns must first register for medical insurance.

1, the guardian of the newborn needs to hold a copy of the newborn household registration book and a one-inch photo of the newborn, fill in the registration form of the basic medical insurance for urban residents in the community neighborhood Committee where the household registration is located, and send the registration form to the residents' section of the municipal medical insurance center to make a social security card and pay the medical insurance fee after being signed and sealed by the handling personnel.

2. Newborn medical insurance needs the following information. You should bring your household registration book (a copy of the first page and the child's household registration book), your parents' ID card (a copy of both sides) and an inch photo of the newborn with a blue background or a red background (needed in some places) to the street or community labor and social security office where your household registration is located to go through the insurance formalities.

3. It takes more than one month from going through the insurance formalities to getting the newborn medical insurance card.

legal ground

People's Republic of China (PRC) social insurance law

Article 58

The employing unit shall, within 30 days from the date of employment, apply to the social insurance agency for social insurance registration for its employees. If the social insurance has not been registered, the social insurance agency shall verify the social insurance premium it should pay. Employees-free individual industrial and commercial households who voluntarily participate in social insurance, part-time employees who do not participate in social insurance in the employing unit and other flexible employees shall apply to the social insurance agency for social insurance registration. The state establishes a national unified personal social security number. Personal social security number is a citizen's identity number.