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Section 6 Limitation of Insurance Benefits第六節 保険給付の制限等
Article 63第六十三条
Limitation of Insurance Benefits(保険給付の制限)
Article 63, paragraph (1)
With regard to a person that is confined to penal institution, work facility, or other facility mutatis mutandis as these, a Long-Term Care Benefit, etc., pertaining to said period of confinement is not paid.
With regard to the Condition of Need for Long-Term Care, etc., of an Insured Person that caused the accident that caused a Condition of Need for Long-Term Care, etc., or the cause of said condition, or who increased the degree of Condition of Need for Long-Term Care, etc., by not obeying instructions for the use of Service Covered by Long-Term Care Benefits, etc., or for a Home Modification pertaining to an Allowance for Home Modification for In-Home Long-Term Care or Allowance for Preventive Long-Term Care Home Modification due to an intentional criminal act or gross negligence or without justifiable reasons, a Municipality may not pay the whole or a part of a Long-Term Care Benefit, etc., for which the reason for payment is said Condition of Need for Long-Term Care, etc.
A Municipality, when a person that receives a Long-Term Care Benefit, etc., fails to respond to a request pursuant to the provisions of Article 23 (in a case when it is entrusted pursuant to the provisions of Article 24-2, paragraph (1), item (i), including a request pertaining to said entrustment) or refuses to answer without a justifiable reason, may not pay the whole or a part of a Long-Term Care Benefit, etc.
Article 66, paragraph (1)(保険料滞納者に係る支払方法の変更)(Change of Payment Method Pertaining to Person Delinquent in Payment of an Insurance Premium)Changed
A Municipality, in a case when an Insured Person Requiring Long-Term Care, etc. who is a Primary Insured Person delinquent in payment of an insurance premium (excluding those who can receive payment of a medical allowance for general disease pursuant to the Atomic Bomb Survivors' Assistance Act (Act No. 117 of 1994) and other benefits for medical care as determined by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare) fails to pay said insurance premium from the payment due date of said insurance premium until the expiry of the period as determined by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, except for a case when it is found that there is a special circumstance for said delinquency of insurance premium payment such as a disaster or other circumstances provided by a Cabinet Order, is to requestgive said Insured Person Requiring Long-Term Care, etc. to submit the Certificate of Insured Person, pursuant to the provisions of Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, and to enter on said Certificate of Insured Persona notice to the effect that the provisions of Article 41, paragraph (6), Article 42-2, paragraph (6), Article 46, paragraph (4), Article 47-2, paragraph (4), Article 48, paragraph (4), Article 51-3, paragraph (4), Article 53, paragraph (4), Article 54-2, paragraph (6), Article 58, paragraph (4), Article 59-2, paragraph (4) and Article 61-3, paragraph (4) do not apply (hereinafter referred to as "EntryNotice of Change of Payment Method" in this Article and paragraph (3) of the following Article). In this case, the Municipality, when it determines it necessary with regard to the qualification of an Insured Person, may request said Insured Person Requiring Long-Term Care, etc. to submit the Certificate of Insured Person, pursuant to the provisions of Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare.
Article 66, paragraph (2)(保険料滞納者に係る支払方法の変更)(Change of Payment Method Pertaining to Person Delinquent in Payment of an Insurance Premium)Changed
A Municipality, although in a case when the period as determined by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour, and Welfare as prescribed in the preceding paragraph has not yet expired, except for a case when it is determined that said person delinquent in payment is due tothere are special circumstances provided by a Cabinet Order as prescribed in the same paragraph, may requestgive the Insured Person Requiring Long-Term Care, etc., as prescribed in the same paragraph to submit a Notice of Change of Payment Method, pursuant to the Certificateprovisions of Insured Person, Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and include Welfare. In this case, the Entry of Change Municipality, when it determines it necessary with regard to the qualification of Payment Method on an Insured Person, may request said Insured Person Requiring Long-Term Care, etc. to submit the Certificate of Insured Person, pursuant to the provisions of Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare.
Article 66, paragraph (3)(保険料滞納者に係る支払方法の変更)(Change of Payment Method Pertaining to Person Delinquent in Payment of an Insurance Premium)Changed
A Municipality, when an Insured Person Requiring Long-Term Care, etc., that has received an Entrya Notice of Change of Payment Method pursuant to the provisions of the preceding two paragraphs and has completed payment of said delinquent insurance premium or when it is determined that the delinquent payment amount pertaining to said Insured Person Requiring Long-Term Care, etc., has decreased significantly or due to a disaster or other special circumstances provided by a Cabinet Order, is to deletewithdraw said EntryNotice of Change of Payment Method and notify said Insured Person Requiring Long-Term Care, etc. of that effect, pursuant to the provisions of Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare.
Article 66, paragraph (4)(保険料滞納者に係る支払方法の変更)(Change of Payment Method Pertaining to Person Delinquent in Payment of an Insurance Premium)Changed
With regard to the payment of an Allowance for In-Home Long-Term Care Service, Allowance for Community-Based Long-Term Care Service, Allowance for In-Home Long-Term Care Service Plan, Allowance for Registered Facility Long-Term Care Service Plan, Allowance for Long-Term Care Facility Service, Allowance for Long-Term Care Service to a Person Admitted to a Specified Facility, Allowance for Preventive Long-Term Care Service, Allowance for Community-Based Preventive Long-Term Care Service, Allowance for Preventive Long-Term Care Service Plan, Allowance for Registered Facility Preventive Long-Term Care Service Plan, and Allowance for Preventive Long-Term Care Service to a Person Admitted to a Specified Facility, pertaining to Designated In-Home Service, Designated Community-Based Service, Designated In-Home Long-Term Care Support, Designated Registered Facility Long-Term Care Support, Designated Facility Service, etc., Designated Preventive Long-Term Care Service, Designated Community-Based Service for Preventive Long-Term Care, Designated Preventive Long-Term Care Support, and Designated Registered Facility Preventive Long-Term Care Support that an Insured Person Requiring Long-Term Care, etc. who received an Entrya Notice of Change of Payment Method pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (1) or paragraph (2) receives during the period in which said EntryNotice of Change of Payment Method remainshas been received, the provisions of Article 41, paragraph (6), Article 42-2, paragraph (6), Article 46, paragraph (4), Article 47-2, paragraph (4), Article 48, paragraph (4), Article 51-3, paragraph (4), Article 53, paragraph (4), Article 54-2, paragraph (6), Article 58, paragraph (4), Article 59-2, paragraph (4), and Article 61-3, paragraph (4) do not apply.
A Municipality, when an Insured Person Requiring Long-Term Care, etc., that is a Primary Insured Person that can receive an insurance benefit becomes a person delinquent in the payment of an insurance premium and fails to pay said insurance premium from the due date of payment of said insurance premium until the period as determined by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour, and Welfare expires, is to temporarily suspend the payment of the whole or a part of an insurance benefit, pursuant to the provisions of Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour, and Welfare, except for a case when it is determined that said delinquency of payment of an insurance premium is due to a disaster or other special circumstance as determined by a Cabinet Order.
A Municipality, in a case when an Insured Person Requiring Long-Term Care, etc., who is a Primary Insured Person that can receive an insurance benefit becomes a person delinquent in the payment of an insurance premium although the period as determined by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour, and Welfare as prescribed in the preceding paragraph has not yet expired, except for a case when it is determined that said delinquency of an insurance premium is due to a disaster or other special circumstance as determined by a Cabinet Order as prescribed, may temporarily suspend the whole or a part of an insurance benefit pursuant to the provisions of Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour, and Welfare.
Article 67, paragraph (3)(保険給付の支払の一時差止)(Temporary Suspension of Payment of Insurance Benefit)Changed
A Municipality, in a case when an Insured Person Requiring Long-Term Care, etc., that has received an Entrya Notice of Change of Payment Method pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (1) or paragraph (2) of the preceding Article and whose insurance benefit has been temporarily suspended in whole or in part pursuant to the provisions of the preceding two paragraphs and who has not yet paid the delinquent insurance premium, may notify in advance said Insured Person Requiring Long-Term Care, etc., pursuant to the provisions of Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour, and Welfare, and deduct the amount of delinquent insurance premium of said Insured Person Requiring Long-Term Care, etc., from the amount of insurance benefit pertaining to said temporary suspension.
Temporary Suspensions of Insurance Benefits to a Person that has not paid an insurance premium as prescribed in the Medical Insurance Acts(医療保険各法の規定による保険料等に未納がある者に対する保険給付の一時差止)
Article 68, paragraph (1)(医療保険各法の規定による保険料等に未納がある者に対する保険給付の一時差止)(Temporary Suspensions of Insurance Benefits to a Person that has not paid an insurance premium as prescribed in the Medical Insurance Acts)Changed
With regard to an Insured Person Requiring Long-Term Care, etc. who is a Secondary Insured Person that can receive an insurance benefit, in a case when there is an insurance premium (including National Health Insurance tax pursuant to the provisions of the Local Tax Act (Act No. 226 of 1950)) or contribution that said Insured Person Requiring Long-Term Care, etc. is obligated to pay or remit pursuant to the provisions of the Medical Insurance Acts and that was not paid by the payment deadline or remittance deadline (hereinafter referred to as "Unpaid Medical Insurance Premium, etc." in this paragraph and the following paragraph), except for a case when it is found that the existence of the Unpaid Medical Insurance Premium, etc. is due to a disaster or other special circumstance as determined by a Cabinet Order, a Municipality, pursuant to the provisions of Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, may requestgive said Insured Person Requiring Long-Term Care, etc. to submit the Certificate of Insured Person and may enter on said Certificate of Insured Persona notice to the effect that the provisions of Article 41, paragraph (6), Article 42-2, paragraph (6), Article 46, paragraph (4), Article 47-2, paragraph (4), Article 48, paragraph (4), Article 51-3, paragraph (4), Article 53, paragraph (4), Article 54-2, paragraph (6), Article 58, paragraph (4), Article 59-2, paragraph (4), and Article 61-3, paragraph (4) do not apply and that the whole or a part of the payment of an insurance benefit is to be suspended (hereinafter referred to as "Entrynotice of Suspensionsuspension of Insurance Benefitinsurance benefit" in this Article). In this case, the Municipality, when it determines it necessary with regard to the qualification of an Insured Person, may request said Insured Person Requiring Long-Term Care, etc. to submit the Certificate of Insured Person, pursuant to the provisions of Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare.
Article 68, paragraph (2)(医療保険各法の規定による保険料等に未納がある者に対する保険給付の一時差止)(Temporary Suspensions of Insurance Benefits to a Person that has not paid an insurance premium as prescribed in the Medical Insurance Acts)Changed
When an Insured Person Requiring Long-Term Care, etc., that has received an Entrya notice of Suspensionsuspension of Insurance Benefitinsurance benefit pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph completes payment of an Unpaid Medical Insurance Premium, etc., or when it is determined that there is a significant decrease of an Unpaid Medical Insurance Premium, etc., pertaining to said Insured Person Requiring Long-Term Care, etc., or due to disaster or other special circumstance as provided by a Cabinet Order, the Municipality is to withdraw said Entrynotice of Suspensionsuspension of Insurance Benefit is insurance benefit and notify said Insured Person Requiring Long-Term Care, etc. of that effect, pursuant to be deletedthe provisions of Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare.
Article 68, paragraph (3)(医療保険各法の規定による保険料等に未納がある者に対する保険給付の一時差止)(Temporary Suspensions of Insurance Benefits to a Person that has not paid an insurance premium as prescribed in the Medical Insurance Acts)Changed
The provisions of Article 66, paragraph (4) apply mutatis mutandis to an Insured Person Requiring Long-Term Care, etc., that has received an Entrya notice of Suspensionsuspension of Insurance Benefitinsurance benefit pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (1).
Article 68, paragraph (4)(医療保険各法の規定による保険料等に未納がある者に対する保険給付の一時差止)(Temporary Suspensions of Insurance Benefits to a Person that has not paid an insurance premium as prescribed in the Medical Insurance Acts)Changed
With regard to an Insured Person Requiring Long-Term Care, etc., that has received an Entrya notice of Suspensionsuspension of Insurance Benefitinsurance benefit pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (1), a Municipality is to temporarily suspend the whole or a part of an insurance benefit.
Article 68, paragraph (5)(医療保険各法の規定による保険料等に未納がある者に対する保険給付の一時差止)(Temporary Suspensions of Insurance Benefits to a Person that has not paid an insurance premium as prescribed in the Medical Insurance Acts)Changed
A Municipality, when it finds it necessary in relation to the Entrynotice of Suspensionsuspension of Insurance Benefit ofinsurance benefit for an Insured Person Requiring Long-Term Care, etc., may, pursuant to the provisions of Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, request the medical insurer in which said Insured Person Requiring Long-Term Care, etc. is enrolled (the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare, where said Insured Person Requiring Long-Term Care, etc. is an insured person of health insurance administered by the Japan Health Insurance Association (excluding a voluntary continuing insured person prescribed in Article 3, paragraph (4) of the Health Insurance Act) or a dependent thereof, or an insured person of mariners insurance (excluding a voluntary continuing insured person for sickness prescribed in Article 2, paragraph (2) of the Mariners Insurance Act) or a dependent thereof, and a Municipality, where said Insured Person Requiring Long-Term Care, etc. is an insured person of National Health Insurance conducted by a prefecture together with the Municipalities within that prefecture as provided in the National Health Insurance Act (hereinafter referred to as "National Health Insurance"); the same applies hereinafter in this Article) to provide information on the status of payment of insurance premiums (including National Health Insurance tax collected pursuant to the provisions of the Local Tax Act) or contributions collected pursuant to the provisions of the Medical Insurance Acts with regard to said Insured Person Requiring Long-Term Care, etc., and other matters as determined by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare.