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Elizabeth Cheung

Elderly Hongkongers will be able to use healthcare vouchers for medical services at two hospitals in mainland China’s Zhuhai later this week under a government subsidy scheme, part of a plan to expand the coverage of the project across the border.
The Hong Kong government on Monday announced that the Elderly Health Care Voucher Greater Bay Area Pilot Scheme would be launched at Fifth Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University and Zhuhai People’s Hospital on Thursday.
The latest additions will bring the number of hospitals on the mainland that accept the city’s healthcare vouchers to 11.
Currently, more than 1.78 million elderly people in Hong Kong are eligible to use government healthcare vouchers.
As in Hong Kong and other cities in the bay area, the vouchers cannot be used for inpatient services, prepaid healthcare procedures or day surgery.
They also cannot be used solely for the purchase of goods, medication, medical equipment or products, or cash redemptions.
“Elderly people cannot use elderly healthcare vouchers together with national medical insurance to pay for the fees of the same healthcare service encounter,” a government spokesman said.

Those who wish to use the vouchers at any of the 11 institutions on the mainland should first register with the government’s eHealth system. The institutions can also help with registration when a patient provides consent.
Elderly Hongkongers were first able to use the healthcare vouchers on the mainland with an arrangement that began in 2015 with the University of Hong Kong-Shenzhen Hospital. It was later expanded in 2023 to include a community health centre under the same institution.
The government launched the pilot scheme last year to extend voucher coverage to seven institutions in the bay area, covering Guangzhou, Zhongshan, Dongguan and Shenzhen.
Last month, the government announced the pilot scheme would cover an additional 12 hospitals, including the two in Zhuhai. It aimed to increase the number of participating institutions in all nine mainland cities in the bay area, such as Foshan, Huizhou, Jiangmen and Zhaoqing.
The government said on Monday the implementation of the scheme at the 10 remaining hospitals would be launched gradually in the second half of the year.


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Fifth Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University and Zhuhai People’s Hospital added to pilot scheme that expands coverage across the border


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Elderly Hongkongers can use healthcare vouchers at 2 Zhuhai hospitals from Thursday

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Fifth Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University and Zhuhai People’s Hospital added to pilot scheme that expands coverage across the border