Order for Enforcement of the Health Insurance Act

The amount of the fee to be paid by a user of anonymized medical care-related information (meaning a user of anonymized medical care-related information prescribed in Article 150-3 of the Act; the same applies in paragraphs (2) and (3) of the following Article) pursuant to Article 150-10, paragraph (1) of the Act is 4,350 yen for each period of up to one hour of time required for the provision of anonymized medical care-related information (meaning anonymized medical care-related information prescribed in Article 150-2, paragraph (1) of the Act; the same applies in paragraph (3) of the following Article).

The fee referred to in the preceding paragraph must be paid by affixing revenue stamps to a document specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare; provided, however, that this does not apply where the fee is paid to an Infrastructure Organization, etc. (meaning an Infrastructure Organization, etc. prescribed in Article 150-9 of the Act; the same applies in paragraph (3) of the following Article) pursuant to Article 150-10, paragraph (1) of the Act.

The persons specified by Cabinet Order referred to in Article 150-10, paragraph (2) of the Act are as follows:

a prefecture or any other person listed in Article 150-2, paragraph (1), item (i) of the Act;

among the persons listed in Article 150-2, paragraph (1), item (ii) or (iii) of the Act, a person who carries out the business specified in item (ii) or (iii) of that paragraph, respectively (limited to a business conducted using subsidies, etc. prescribed in Article 2, paragraph (1) of the Act on Regulation of Execution of Budget Pertaining to Subsidies, etc. (Act No. 179 of 1955), subsidies paid by a local government pursuant to Article 232-2 of the Local Autonomy Act (Act No. 67 of 1947) (including as applied pursuant to Article 283, paragraph (1) of that Act), or grants disbursed by the Japan Agency for Medical Research and Development, National Research and Development Agency as the business listed in Article 16, item (iii) of the Act on the Japan Agency for Medical Research and Development, National Research and Development Agency (Act No. 49 of 2014));

among the persons listed in Article 150-2, paragraph (1), item (ii) or (iii) of the Act, a person who has been entrusted by a person listed in item (i) with the business specified in item (i) of that paragraph (including entrustment through two or more stages; the same applies hereinafter in this item), or a person who has been entrusted by a person listed in the preceding item with the business prescribed in that item;

an organization composed solely of persons listed in the preceding three items.

If a user of anonymized medical care-related information is any of the persons listed in the items of the preceding paragraph, the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare exempts that user from the fee under Article 150-10, paragraph (1) of the Act.

A user of anonymized medical care-related information who seeks exemption from the fee under the preceding paragraph must submit a document stating that the user requests the exemption and the reasons therefor to the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare (or, where, pursuant to Article 150-9 of the Act, an Infrastructure Organization, etc. entrusted by the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare performs the whole of the affairs relating to the provision of anonymized medical care-related information under Article 150-2, paragraph (1) of the Act, the Infrastructure Organization, etc.).