A medical institution providing services covered by health insurance or a pharmacy providing services covered by health insurance, and the physician providing health insurance treatment or the pharmacist filling health insurance prescriptions, must receive guidance from the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare with respect to benefits for medical treatment and with respect to medical care or prescription services provided under a national health insurance program, respectively.
When the guidance referred to in the preceding paragraph is provided, and the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare finds it necessary, the Minister is to have persons with knowledge and experience concerning medical care or prescription services attend during the guidance pursuant to designation by related organizations; provided, however, that this does not apply if related organizations make no designation or the designated persons do not attend.
厚生労働大臣は、前項の指導をする場合において、必要があると認めるときは、診療又は調剤に関する学識経験者をその関係団体の指定により指導に立ち会わせるものとする。ただし、関係団体が指定を行わない場合又は指定された者が立ち会わない場合は、この限りでない。