Article 78Reports by Medical Institutions Providing Services Covered by Health Insurance or Pharmacies Providing Services Covered by Health Insurance
第七十八条（保険医療機関又は保険薬局の報告等）
When the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare finds it necessary in relation to benefits for medical treatment, the minister or governor may order a medical institution providing services covered by health insurance or pharmacy providing services covered by health insurance, or a person who was an establisher or manager, physician who provided health insurance treatment, pharmacist who filled health insurance prescriptions, or another employee of a medical institution providing services covered by health insurance or pharmacy providing services covered by health insurance (hereinafter referred to as "former establisher, etc." in this paragraph) to make a report or submit or present medical records or other books and other documents, may request an establisher, manager, physician providing health insurance treatment, pharmacist filling health insurance prescriptions or another employee of a medical institution or pharmacy providing services covered by health insurance (including former establishers, etc.) to appear, or may have an official question persons involved or inspect any equipment or medical records, record books and documents or other objects of the medical institution or pharmacy providing services covered by health insurance.
The provisions of Article 7-38, paragraph (2) and Article 73, paragraph (2) apply mutatis mutandis to questions or inspections pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph, and the provisions of Article 7-38, paragraph (3) apply mutatis mutandis to the authority granted pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph.
第七条の三十八第二項及び第七十三条第二項の規定は前項の規定による質問又は検査について、第七条の三十八第三項の規定は前項の規定による権限について準用する。