If the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare finds it necessary in relation to the payment of insurance benefits, the Minister may order a physician, dentist, pharmacist or person who provided medical care or a person who employs any of these to make a report or to present medical records, record books, and other documents or other objects concerning the provided medical care, provision of drugs, or medical treatment, or may order the ministry's official to ask the person questions.
厚生労働大臣は、保険給付を行うにつき必要があると認めるときは、医師、歯科医師、薬剤師若しくは手当を行った者又はこれを使用する者に対し、その行った診療、薬剤の支給又は手当に関し、報告若しくは診療録、帳簿書類その他の物件の提示を命じ、又は当該職員に質問させることができる。
If the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare finds it necessary, the Minister may order a person who is or was an insured person and who received payment of benefits for medical treatment, or expenses for dietary treatment for inpatients, living support expenses for inpatients, medical expenses combined with treatment outside insurance coverage, medical expenses, medical expenses for home-nursing, dependent's medical expenses, or dependent's medical expenses for home-nursing to make a report on or have the Ministry's official ask questions about the medical care or prescription pertaining to the insurance benefits, or designated home-nursing as prescribed in Article 88, paragraph (1).
The provisions of Article 7-38, paragraph (2) apply mutatis mutandis to questions pursuant to the provisions of the preceding two paragraphs, and the provisions of paragraph (3) of the same Article apply mutatis mutandis to the authority granted pursuant to the provisions of the preceding two paragraphs.
第七条の三十八第二項の規定は前二項の規定による質問について、同条第三項の規定は前二項の規定による権限について準用する。