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Article 56Insurance Benefit Method

第五十六条(保険給付の方法)

Dietary treatment expenses for inpatients, living support expenses for inpatients, medical expenses combined with treatment outside insurance coverage, medical expenses, medical expenses for home-nursing, transport expenses, injury and sickness allowance, burial charges, lump-sum allowance for childbirth and childcare, childbirth allowance, dependent's medical expenses, dependent's medical expenses for home-nursing, dependent's transport expenses, dependent's burial charges, and lump-sum allowance for dependent's childbirth and childcare must be paid on each occasion. This also applies to the payment of an amount equivalent to the cost of burial pursuant to the provisions of Article 100, paragraph (2) (including when applied mutatis mutandis to Article 105, paragraph (2)).

入院時食事療養費、入院時生活療養費、保険外併用療養費、療養費、訪問看護療養費、移送費、傷病手当金、埋葬料、出産育児一時金、出産手当金、家族療養費、家族訪問看護療養費、家族移送費、家族埋葬料及び家族出産育児一時金の支給は、その都度、行わなければならない。第百条第二項(第百五条第二項において準用する場合を含む。)の規定による埋葬に要した費用に相当する金額の支給についても、同様とする。

Injury and sickness allowance and childbirth allowance may be paid by a fixed date in every month notwithstanding the provisions of the preceding paragraph.

傷病手当金及び出産手当金の支給は、前項の規定にかかわらず、毎月一定の期日に行うことができる。

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