①When a specially-insured day laborer (excluding a person who receives medical treatment consisting of hospitalization in a sanatorium ward and care and other nursing incidental to that medical treatment after the month which contains the person's 65th birthday (hereinafter referred to as a "specially-insured day laborer receiving specified long-term hospitalization")) submits the laborer's qualified recipient card to a hospital or clinic which the laborer selected from those listed in Article 63, paragraph (3), item (i) or (ii) and receives dietary treatment along with benefits for medical treatment listed in paragraph (1), item (v) of the same Article from the hospital or clinic, dietary treatment expenses for inpatients pertaining to the dietary treatment are paid.

②The provisions of Article 129, paragraphs (2), (4) and (5) apply mutatis mutandis to the payment of dietary treatment expenses for inpatients.