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保険者の給付に要する費用
The cost of an insurer's benefits (for National Health Insurance (国民健康保険), the benefits of the municipalities in the prefecture) that are medical care benefits under the Medical Insurance Acts (医療保険各法), other than the other benefits of Article 53 of the Health Insurance Act and their equivalents, of the kinds a Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare Order (厚生労働省令) names; the young-old subsidy (前期高齢者交付金) and payment (前期高齢者納付金) are worked out from it.
A health insurance society (健康保険組合) set up by employers who employ specially-insured day laborers (日雇特例被保険者), from which the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare collects a contribution each fiscal year.
The contribution that the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare collects each fiscal year from day laborer health societies (日雇関係組合) toward the costs of health insurance for specially-insured day laborers (日雇特例被保険者), and which those societies must pay.
The plan for putting its finances on a sound footing that a designated health insurance society (指定健康保険組合) must draw up, as a Cabinet Order (政令) provides, and have approved by the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare.
国保連合会
A federation of national health insurance associations (国民健康保険団体連合会) as provided in Article 45, paragraph (5) of the National Health Insurance Act, to which an insurer may entrust the review and payment of claims for medical fees from medical institutions and pharmacies providing services covered by health insurance.
医療保険者
The Japan Health Insurance Association (全国健康保険協会), a health insurance society (健康保険組合), a prefecture (都道府県) or a municipality (市町村), including a special ward (特別区), a National Health Insurance Society (国民健康保険組合), a mutual aid association (共済組合) or the Promotion and Mutual Aid Corporation for Private Schools of Japan (日本私立学校振興・共済事業団), that provides medical benefits under the medical insurance Acts (医療保険各法).
他の都道府県知事
In Article 17, paragraph (4), for a proposed National Health Insurance Society (国民健康保険組合) whose district spans two or more prefectures, the governor of each prefecture its district covers other than the governor who received the application to authorize its establishment; the governor receiving the application must first hear their opinions, and each must first hear the mayors of the municipalities in their prefecture that the district covers.
子ども・子育て支援納付金
The levy (納付金) the government collects every fiscal year from 2026 from health insurers and similar bodies under Article 71-3(1) of the Act on Support for Children and Child-rearing, to cover costs that include the grants under Article 19 of this Act, part of which Article 19 funds from it.
子ども・子育て支援納付金
In Article 47 of the supplementary provisions (附則) of Act No. 47 of 2024, the children and child-rearing support levy (子ども・子育て支援納付金) provided for in Article 71-3, paragraph (1) of the Act on Support for Children and Child-rearing as amended by that Act, which the government collects every fiscal year from fiscal 2026 from health insurers and similar bodies (健康保険者等).
施行日新支援法第七十一条の三第一項に規定する子ども・子育て支援納付金
In Articles 27 and 29 of the supplementary provisions (附則) of the Act Partially Amending the Health Insurance Act, etc. (Act No. 102 of 2002), a specified health insurance society's (特定健康保険組合) special retired insured persons' enrollment share (特例退職被保険者等加入割合) for the period from 1 April 2002 to the day before that Act's effective date.
平成十四年四月一日以後施行日前の期間における当該特定健康保険組合に係る被保険者及びその被扶養者の総数に対する特例退職被保険者及びその被扶養者の総数の割合として政令の…
特例退職被保険者等加入割合
In Article 27, paragraph (3) of the supplementary provisions (附則) of the Act Partially Amending the Health Insurance Act, etc. (Act No. 102 of 2002), the ratio, worked out as a Cabinet Order (政令) provides, of the special retired insured persons (特例退職被保険者) and their dependants of a specified health insurance society (特定健康保険組合) to all its insured persons and their dependants.
特例退職被保険者
In Article 3 of the supplementary provisions (附則), a former insured member of a specified health insurance society (特定健康保険組合) who would be a retired insured person (退職被保険者) under Article 8-2, paragraph (1) of the National Health Insurance Act as it stood before Article 13 of the amending Act this Act names (改正法, Act No. 83 of 2006) amended it, who meets the society's rules, has asked to be insured by it and is not an insured person with optional and continued coverage (任意継続被保険者).
組合
In Articles 2 and 2-2 of the supplementary provisions (附則), a health insurance society (健康保険組合) that is a member of the federation of health insurance societies (健康保険組合連合会), which runs a scheme of grants to its member societies to even out imbalances in how they fund their benefits, services and levies.
特定被保険者
In Articles 7 and 8 of the supplementary provisions (附則), an insured person who is not an item (ii) insured person (介護保険第二号被保険者) but has a dependent who is, whose premium a health insurance society (健康保険組合) may by its rules set as the amount of general insurance premium, etc. (一般保険料等額) plus the amount of long-term care insurance premium (介護保険料額).
In Article 24 of the supplementary provisions (附則) of Act No. 74 of 2025, the amount found by multiplying a part-time insured person's (短時間被保険者) standard monthly remuneration (標準報酬月額) by the general insurance premium rate (一般保険料率) and then by the increased burden ratio (増加負担割合) — less any share a health insurance society already shifts to the employer under Article 162 of this Act — which, where the employer has applied to bear more of the premium, is treated as never having had to be collected.
国民健康保険の保険者
In Article 2 of the supplementary provisions (附則) of Act No. 62 of 1963, which partially amended the National Health Insurance Act and other laws, a municipality or a National Health Insurance Society (国民健康保険組合).
承認法人等
In Article 4 of the supplementary provisions (附則), a corporation or other body (法人等) formed by an employer (other than one whose place of business has a health insurance society) and the insured persons it employs and approved by the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare as meeting the requirements of a Cabinet Order (政令), which may pay those insured persons up to the co-payment (一部負担金) they paid for medical treatment covered by insurance benefits.
法人等
In Article 4 of the supplementary provisions (附則), a corporation or other body a Cabinet Order (政令) specifies that an employer of insured persons (other than one whose place of business has a health insurance society) forms together with those insured persons.
特例退職被保険者等に係る療養の給付等に要する費用
In Article 5, paragraph (2) of the supplementary provisions (附則) of Act No. 31 of 2023, the costs of benefits for medical treatment (療養の給付) and of the other benefits that paragraph lists, given before that Act's effective date to persons who were then special retired insured persons or their dependants (特例退職被保険者等) — health insurance members under Article 3, paragraph (1) of the supplementary provisions of the Health Insurance Act who would otherwise have been retired insured persons (退職被保険者) of national health insurance — under Article 21, paragraph (1) of the supplementary provisions of the National Health Insurance Act as it stood before Article 4 of that Act amended it; where claimed on or after that date, they are treated as borne by the health insurance society they belong to.