Dietary treatment expenses for inpatients are paid to an insured person (excluding insured persons undergoing special long-term hospitalization) who, pursuant to Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, has received from a hospital or clinic that the person selected from those listed in the items of Article 63, paragraph (3) confirmation of being an insured person by electronic eligibility confirmation, etc., for expenses required for dietary treatment that the person received along with benefits for medical treatment listed in Article 63, paragraph (1), item (v).
The amount of dietary treatment expenses for inpatients is the amount obtained by deducting the amount specified by the Minister of Health, Labor and Welfare taking into consideration the status of food expenses for an average household budget and the average amount of expenses required to provide meals at a specified facility for insured long-term care (meaning the specified facilities for insured long-term care prescribed in Article 51-3, paragraph (1) of the Long-Term Care Insurance Act) from the amount calculated based on standards specified by the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare taking into account the average amount of expenses required for the dietary treatment (if the calculated amount exceeds the amount of expenses actually incurred in the dietary treatment, the amount of expenses actually incurred in the dietary treatment) (for a person specified by Order of Health, Labor and Welfare in consideration of income status and other circumstances, a separately determined amount; hereinafter referred to as "standard co-payment for dietary treatment").
入院時食事療養費の額は、当該食事療養につき食事療養に要する平均的な費用の額を勘案して厚生労働大臣が定める基準により算定した費用の額（その額が現に当該食事療養に要した費用の額を超えるときは、当該現に食事療養に要した費用の額）から、平均的な家計における食費の状況及び特定介護保険施設等（介護保険法第五十一条の三第一項に規定する特定介護保険施設等をいう。）における食事の提供に要する平均的な費用の額を勘案して厚生労働大臣が定める額（所得の状況その他の事情をしん酌して厚生労働省令で定める者については、別に定める額。以下「食事療養標準負担額」という。）を控除した額とする。
When intending to specify the standards referred to in the preceding paragraph, the Minister of Health, Labour, and Welfare is to consult with the Central Social Insurance Medical Council.
厚生労働大臣は、前項の基準を定めようとするときは、中央社会保険医療協議会に諮問するものとする。
If the circumstances to be taken into consideration have changed significantly since the Minister of Health, Labour, and Welfare determines the amount of standard co-payment for dietary treatment, the Minister must promptly revise the amount.
厚生労働大臣は、食事療養標準負担額を定めた後に勘案又はしん酌すべき事項に係る事情が著しく変動したときは、速やかにその額を改定しなければならない。
When an insured person (excluding insured persons undergoing special long-term hospitalization; the same applies hereinafter in this Article) has received dietary treatment at or from a hospital or clinic listed in Article 63, paragraph (3), item (i) or (ii), the insurer may, on behalf of the insured person, pay to the hospital or clinic the expenses incurred for the dietary treatment payable by the insured person to the hospital or clinic within the limit of the amount payable to the insured person as expenses for dietary treatment for inpatients.
被保険者（特定長期入院被保険者を除く。以下この条において同じ。）が第六十三条第三項第一号又は第二号に掲げる病院又は診療所から食事療養を受けたときは、保険者は、その被保険者が当該病院又は診療所に支払うべき食事療養に要した費用について、入院時食事療養費として被保険者に対し支給すべき額の限度において、被保険者に代わり、当該病院又は診療所に支払うことができる。
When a payment pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph is paid, it is deemed that the relevant dietary treatment expenses for inpatients are paid to the insured person.
When an insured person receives dietary treatment from a hospital or clinic listed in Article 63, paragraph (3), item (iii), if the insurer exempts the insured person from payment of an amount equivalent to the amount to be paid as dietary treatment expenses for inpatients among the expenses required for dietary treatment to be paid by the insured person, it is deemed that dietary treatment expenses for inpatients are paid to the insured person.
被保険者が第六十三条第三項第三号に掲げる病院又は診療所から食事療養を受けた場合において、保険者がその被保険者の支払うべき食事療養に要した費用のうち入院時食事療養費として被保険者に支給すべき額に相当する額の支払を免除したときは、入院時食事療養費の支給があったものとみなす。
Upon acceptance of a payment of expenses incurred for dietary treatment, the hospital or clinic listed in the items of Article 63, paragraph (3) must issue a receipt therefor to the relevant insured person who makes the payment, pursuant to Ordinance of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare.
The provisions of Article 64, Article 70, paragraph (1), Article 72, paragraph (1), Article 73, Article 76, paragraphs (3) through (6), Article 78, and paragraph (1) of the preceding Article apply mutatis mutandis to payment of dietary treatment received at or from a hospital or clinic listed in the items of Article 63, paragraph (3) and dietary treatment expenses for inpatients associated with that dietary treatment.