Egyptian health insurance authority moves to ease treatment card renewal for pensioners

The General Authority for Health Insurance has put forward measures to ease annual treatment card renewal for pensioners, relying on electronic data.

• Authority chairman Tamer Madkour said the proposal would allow pensioners to renew treatment cards for a full year, reducing repeated renewal procedures.
• The measures waive requirements for an insurance printout from social insurance and stamped annual subscription forms, accepting the national ID card instead.
• The authority is completing digital linkage with the National Authority for Social Insurance to draw on data recorded electronically, including health insurance deductions.
• Madkour said the steps aim to ease procedures for pensioners and older citizens and shift from paper-based transactions.