Readers often write and call to inquire about the settlement of medical treatment in different provinces. How to use medical insurance if you want to see a doctor in other provinces? Will it be troublesome to handle the direct settlement of cross provincial and non local medical treatment? At present, all provinces in China have opened direct settlement of inter provincial and non local medical hospitalization and general outpatient expenses. There are 51700 designated medical institutions with inter provincial direct settlement of hospitalization expenses and 34600 designated medical institutions with inter provincial direct settlement of outpatient expenses. The proportion of medical insurance reimbursement for inter provincial hospitalization and general outpatient expenses exceeds 50%, benefiting a large number of insured people with inter provincial medical treatment. So, how to handle the direct settlement of cross provincial and non local medical treatment? The formalities are more and more convenient! The reporter learned from the national medical insurance bureau that the insured in many overall planning areas can quickly handle it through telephone, network, mobile app and wechat applet. The handling process can be summarized as "three steps" - checking the designated point, re filing and card medical treatment. The first step is to check the point. Concerned about the official account of the national health insurance agency, the national health insurance service platform website or downloading "national health insurance service platform" APP, can query the situation of the pilot provinces of different places for medical treatment, hospitalization and outpatient expenses, as well as the designated agencies that can provide inter provincial direct settlement services. The second step is to file again. Cross provincial and non local medical treatment registration and filing forms and relevant materials have been submitted by the insurance agency, and some provinces, autonomous regions and cities have opened channels such as telephone filing, online filing and mobile app. Online filing can also be carried out through "national medical insurance service platform" app and wechat applet "national remote medical treatment filing". The third step is to get medical treatment with a card. At present, the voucher for the direct settlement of employee medical insurance and cross provincial and non local medical treatment of urban and rural residents is the national unified standard social security card. Some cities have opened the use of medical insurance electronic voucher, which can realize the settlement of medical treatment without card. (outlook new era)