①If a specially-insured day laborer falls under any of the following items, and three months (two months if the day on which the laborer fell under the item is the first day of the month; the same applies in paragraph (5)) have not elapsed since the first day of the month including the day on which the laborer fell under the item, or the laborer's dependent submitted a special medical expense card for a hospital, clinic or pharmacy that the dependent selected from those listed in Article 63, paragraph (3), item (i) or (ii) and received medical treatment therefrom, or submitted the special medical expense card to a designated home-nursing provider that the dependent selected and received designated home-nursing, special medical expenses required for the medical treatment or designated home-nursing are paid to the specially-insured day laborer; provided, however, that this does not apply if, with respect to the relevant sickness or injury, the specially-insured day laborer is eligible for benefits for medical treatment, for payment of expenses for dietary treatment for inpatients, expenses for living support 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, or is eligible for payment of expenses for in-home long-term care services, expenses for special in-home long-term care services, expenses for community-based long-term care services, expenses for special community-based long-term care services, expenses for long-term care facility services, allowance for special long-term care facility service expenses, expenses for services to prevent long-term care, or expenses for special services to prevent long-term care pursuant to the provisions of the Long-Term Care Insurance Act:

②The amount of special medical expenses is the amount stated in item (i) below for medical treatment provided by a hospital, clinic, or pharmacy listed in Article 63, paragraph (3), item (i) or (ii) (if dietary treatment is included in the treatment, the sum of the amount stated in item (i) below and the amount stated in item (ii); if living support is included in the treatment, the sum of the amount stated in item (i) below and the amount stated in item (iii)), or the amount listed in item (iv) for designated home-nursing provided by a designated home-nursing provider:

③When applying the provisions of the preceding paragraph to a person who receives medical treatment or designated home-nursing referred to in paragraph (1) before the first March 31 after the person's 6th birthday, "0.70" in items (i) and (iv) of the same paragraph is replaced with "0.80".

④When applying the provisions of paragraph (2) to a person who receives medical treatment or designated home-nursing referred to in paragraph (1) (excluding insured persons who fall under the cases listed in Article 74, paragraph (1), item (iii) as applied mutatis mutandis to Article 149 and their dependents, and the dependents of insured persons specified by Cabinet Order) after the month following the month which included the person's 70th birthday, "0.70" in paragraph (2), items (i) and (iv) are replaced with "0.80".

⑤An insurer issued a special medical expense card upon application by a specially-insured day laborer who falls under any of the items of paragraph (1) if three months have not elapsed since the first day of the month in which the laborer acquired the eligibility.

⑥The provisions of Article 132 apply mutatis mutandis to the payment of special medical expenses. In this case, the phrases "confirmation prescribed in Article 129, paragraph (3)" and "lack of confirmation" in Article 132, paragraph (2) are deemed to be replaced with "issuance of a special medical expense card" and "lack of issuance".

⑦The provisions of Article 87, paragraphs (2) and (3) apply mutatis mutandis to the calculation of the amount of medical expenses paid pursuant to the provisions of Article 132, paragraph (1) and (2) as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to the preceding paragraph.

⑧The form and issuance of special medical expense cards and other necessary matters concerning them are specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare.

Special medical expenses for a specially-insured day laborer who received approval pursuant to the proviso to Article 3, paragraph (2) are not paid from the day on which the laborer becomes no longer a specially-insured day laborer, and special medical expenses for a specially-insured day laborer who returns the relevant specially-insured day laborer's insurance book pursuant to the provisions of Article 126, paragraph (3) are not paid from the day following the day on which that insurance book was returned.

When the amount of co-payment made in relation to the payment of benefits for medical treatment or the amount calculated by deducting, from the amount of expenses incurred in medical treatment (excluding dietary treatment and living support), an amount equivalent to the amount paid as medical expenses combined with treatment outside insurance coverage, medical expenses, medical expenses for home-nursing, dependent's medical expenses, dependent's medical expenses for home-nursing, or special medical expenses (in the following Article referred to as the "amount of co-payment pertaining to specially-insured day laborer") pertaining to a specially-insured day laborer is extremely large, high-cost medical expenses are paid to the specially-insured day laborer who received benefits for that medical treatment, or the payment of the medical expenses combined with treatment outside insurance coverage, medical expenses, medical expenses for home-nursing expenses, dependent's medical expenses, or dependent's medical expenses for home-nursing, or special medical expenses.

When the amount of co-payment, etc. pertaining to a specially-insured day laborer (when high-cost medical expenses referred to in the preceding Article are paid, the amount obtained by deducting an amount equivalent to the amount so paid from the amount of co-payment, etc.) or the sum of the amount to be borne by a user of a long-term care service pursuant to the provisions of Article 51, paragraph (1) of the Long-Term Care Insurance Act (when expenses for high-cost long-term care service referred to in the same paragraph are paid, the amount obtained by deducting the amount so paid from the amount to be borne by the user of long-term care service) and the amount to be borne by a user of a service to prevent long-term care pursuant to the provisions of Article 61, paragraph (1) of the same Act (when expenses for high-cost preventive long-term care service referred to in the same paragraph are paid, the amount obtained by deducting the amount so paid from the amount to be borne by the user of preventive long-term care service) is extremely large, expenses for high-cost medical treatment combined with long-term care are paid to the specially-insured day laborer who received benefits for medical treatment pertaining to the amount of the co-payment, or payment of medical expenses combined with treatment outside insurance coverage, medical expenses, medical expenses for home-nursing, dependent's medical expenses, dependent's medical expenses for home-nursing, or special medical expenses.

A person who intends to receive payment of 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, lump-sum allowance for dependent's childbirth and childcare, or special medical expenses pertaining to a specially-insured day laborer must submit an application for the payment with a specially-insured day laborer's insurance book, qualified recipient card, or other documents that prove that the person meets the recipient requirements pursuant to Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare.