Article 72Reports of Medical Institutions Providing Services Covered by Health Insurance

①When the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare or the prefectural governor finds it necessary in relation to benefits for medical treatment, the Minister or the governor may order a medical institution providing services covered by health insurance, etc., or a person who was an establisher or administrator of a medical institution providing services covered by health insurance, etc., a physician providing health insurance treatment, etc., or another employee (hereinafter referred to as a "former establisher, etc." in this paragraph) to make a report or to submit or present medical records and other books and documents, request the appearance of an establisher or administrator of a medical institution providing services covered by health insurance, etc., a physician providing health insurance treatment, etc., or another employee (including a former establisher, etc.), or have their official question the persons concerned or inspect the facilities, medical records, books and documents, and other articles of a medical institution providing services covered by health insurance, etc.

②The provisions of Article 16-7, paragraph (2) and Article 66, paragraph (2) apply mutatis mutandis to questions and inspections pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph, and the provisions of Article 16-7, paragraph (3) apply mutatis mutandis to the authority granted pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph.

③When the prefectural governor finds that a disposition under the provisions of Article 80 of the Health Insurance Act needs to be made with respect to a medical institution providing services covered by health insurance, etc. in relation to benefits for medical treatment under the provisions of this Act, or that a disposition under the provisions of Article 81 of the Health Insurance Act needs to be made with respect to a physician providing health insurance treatment, etc. in relation to medical care or dispensing under the provisions of this Act, the prefectural governor must notify the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare to that effect, stating the reasons.