High-cost medical expenses are to be paid when the amount (hereinafter in this paragraph referred to as the "household total of co-payments, etc.") obtained by deducting the amount of high-cost medical expenses paid under the provisions of the following paragraph through paragraph (5) from the total of the following amounts exceeds the base amount for calculating high-cost medical expenses, and the amount of the high-cost medical expenses is the amount obtained by deducting the base amount for calculating high-cost medical expenses from the household total of co-payments, etc.:
the total of the amounts listed in (a) through (f) below (for those relating to medical treatment received in or before the month that includes the day on which the person reaches the age of 70, limited to those of 21,000 yen or more (10,500 yen or more for those relating to medical treatment under the special rule on reaching age 75 prescribed in Article 41-3, paragraph (1), item (i))) that relate to medical treatment (excluding dietary treatment prescribed in Article 63, paragraph (2), item (i) of the Act (hereinafter referred to simply as "dietary treatment" in this Article), living support prescribed in item (ii) of that paragraph (hereinafter referred to simply as "living support" in this Article), and the treatment prescribed in paragraph (8) where the insured person or the insured person's dependent falls under that paragraph; the same applies hereinafter from this paragraph through paragraph (5), in Article 41-3, in Article 43, paragraphs (1) and (3), and in Article 43-2), other than the treatment subject to specified benefits prescribed in the following item, that an insured person (including a person who receives benefits for medical treatment, or medical expenses combined with treatment outside insurance coverage or medical expenses for home-nursing, under Article 98, paragraph (1) of the Act, and excluding a specially-insured day laborer; the same applies hereinafter in this Article, Article 42 and Article 43) or the insured person's dependent (including a person receiving treatment for which dependent's medical expenses are paid under Article 98, paragraph (1) of the Act as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 110, paragraph (7) of the Act, and a person receiving treatment for which dependent's medical expenses for home-nursing are paid under Article 98, paragraph (1) of the Act as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 111, paragraph (3) of the Act; the same applies hereinafter in this Article, Article 42 and Article 43) received in the same month from each single hospital, clinic, pharmacy or other person (hereinafter referred to as a "hospital, etc.");
where the treatment includes evaluation treatment prescribed in Article 63, paragraph (2), item (iii) of the Act, patient-requested treatment prescribed in item (iv) of that paragraph or selective treatment prescribed in item (v) of that paragraph, the amount obtained by adding to the amount of the co-payment the amount obtained by deducting, from the amount of expenses calculated as specified by the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare as referred to in Article 86, paragraph (2), item (i) of the Act (or, where that amount exceeds the amount of expenses actually required for the treatment, the amount of expenses actually required for the treatment), the amount equivalent to the amount paid as medical expenses combined with treatment outside insurance coverage for the expenses required for the treatment;
the amount obtained by deducting, from the amount of expenses calculated for the treatment (or, where that amount exceeds the amount of expenses actually required for the treatment, the amount of expenses actually required for the treatment), the amount equivalent to the amount paid as medical expenses for the expenses required for the treatment;
the amount obtained by deducting, from the amount of expenses calculated as specified by the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare prescribed in Article 88, paragraph (4) of the Act, an amount equivalent to the amount paid as medical expenses for home-nursing for the expenses required for the relevant designated home nursing;
the amount obtained by deducting, from the amount of expenses calculated for the relevant medical treatment (if that amount exceeds the amount of expenses actually required for the relevant medical treatment, the amount of expenses actually required for the relevant medical treatment), an amount equivalent to the amount paid as dependent's medical expenses (including medical expenses paid in lieu of dependent's medical expenses pursuant to Article 87, paragraph (1) of the Act as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 110, paragraph (7) of the Act) for the expenses required for the relevant medical treatment;
the amount obtained by deducting, from the amount of expenses calculated pursuant to Article 111, paragraph (2) of the Act, an amount equivalent to the amount paid as dependent's medical expenses for home-nursing for the expenses required for the relevant designated home nursing;
the total sum of the amounts that the insured person or a dependent thereof still has to bear for treatment subject to specified benefits (meaning medical treatment for which payment of general medical expenses for atomic bomb survivors under the Atomic Bomb Survivors' Assistance Act (Act No. 117 of 1994) (referred to as "general medical expenses for atomic bomb survivors" in Article 43, paragraph (5)) or other benefits for medical care specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare are to be provided, and the treatment prescribed in paragraph (9) in the case where the insured person or a dependent thereof has received certification by the insurer under that paragraph; the same applies hereinafter) that the insured person or a dependent thereof received in the same month as in the preceding item from each single hospital, etc. (for those relating to treatment subject to specified benefits on or before the month that includes the day on which the person reaches the age of 70, limited to those for which the amounts listed in (a) through (f) of the preceding item relating to that treatment subject to specified benefits are 21,000 yen or more (10,500 yen or more for those relating to medical treatment under the special rule on reaching age 75 prescribed in Article 41-3, paragraph (1), item (i))).
If a dependent of an insured person receives medical treatment (limited to medical treatment under the special rule on reaching age 75 prescribed in Article 41-3, paragraph (1), item (i) that was received on or before the month that includes the day on which the person reaches the age of 70), and the amount obtained by totaling, for each dependent, the amounts listed in the following items relating to that medical treatment that the dependent received in the same month from each single hospital, etc. exceeds the base amount for calculating high-cost medical expenses, the total sum of the amounts obtained by deducting the base amount for calculating high-cost medical expenses from the respective totals is paid as high-cost medical expenses.
the total sum of the amounts listed in item (i), (a) through (f) of the preceding paragraph relating to that medical treatment received by the dependent (excluding treatment subject to specified benefits) (limited to those of 10,500 yen or more);
the total sum of the amounts that the dependent still has to bear for that medical treatment received by the dependent (limited to treatment subject to specified benefits) (limited to those for which the amounts listed in item (i), (a) through (f) of the preceding paragraph relating to that treatment subject to specified benefits are 10,500 yen or more).
If an insured person or a dependent thereof receives medical treatment (limited to medical treatment on or after the month following the month that includes the day on which the person reaches the age of 70; the same applies in paragraph (5)), and the amount obtained by deducting the amount of high-cost medical expenses paid pursuant to the following paragraph or paragraph (5) from the total sum of the following amounts relating to that medical treatment that the insured person or a dependent thereof received in the same month from each single hospital, etc. (hereinafter in this paragraph referred to as the "household total of co-payments, etc. for persons aged 70 or over") exceeds the base amount for calculating high-cost medical expenses, the amount obtained by deducting the base amount for calculating high-cost medical expenses from the household total of co-payments, etc. for persons aged 70 or over is paid as high-cost medical expenses.
the total sum of the amounts listed in paragraph (1), item (i), (a) through (f) relating to that medical treatment received by the insured person or a dependent thereof (excluding treatment subject to specified benefits);
the total sum of the amounts that the insured person or a dependent thereof still has to bear for that medical treatment received by the insured person or a dependent thereof (limited to treatment subject to specified benefits).
If an insured person receives the medical treatment listed in item (i), or a dependent thereof receives the medical treatment listed in item (ii) or the medical treatment listed in item (iii) (limited to medical treatment on or after the month following the month that includes the day on which the person reaches the age of 70), and the amount obtained by deducting, from the amount obtained by totaling, for each insured person or dependent thereof, the amounts listed in the items of the preceding paragraph relating to that medical treatment that the insured person or dependent received in the same month from each single hospital, etc., the portion of the amount of high-cost medical expenses paid pursuant to the following paragraph that relates to that insured person or dependent exceeds the base amount for calculating high-cost medical expenses, the total sum of the amounts obtained by deducting the base amount for calculating high-cost medical expenses from the respective amounts so deducted is paid as high-cost medical expenses.
the medical treatment received by a person who falls under Article 52, item (i) of the Act on Assurance of Medical Care for Elderly People and has lost status as an insured person of health insurance by acquiring, on a day other than the first day of a month, status as an insured person under Article 50 of that Act (hereinafter referred to as an "insured person of the late-stage elderly medical care system") (referred to as a "former insured person before reaching age 75" in item (iii)), in the month that includes the day preceding that day (limited to the period on or before that day; referred to as the "month in which the former insured person reaches age 75" in item (iii));
the medical treatment received by a person who falls under Article 52, item (i) of the Act on Assurance of Medical Care for Elderly People and has ceased to be a dependent by acquiring, on a day other than the first day of a month, status as an insured person of the late-stage elderly medical care system, in the month that includes the day preceding that day (limited to the period on or before that day);
the medical treatment received, in the month in which the former insured person reaches age 75 for the relevant former insured person before reaching age 75, by a person who was a dependent of a former insured person before reaching age 75 (limited to a person who ceased to be a dependent of that former insured person before reaching age 75 by reason of that former insured person before reaching age 75 acquiring status as an insured person of the late-stage elderly medical care system).
If an insured person (excluding a case where the person is one to whom the provisions of Article 74, paragraph (1), item (iii) of the Act apply) or a dependent thereof receives medical treatment (limited to outpatient treatment (meaning the medical treatment listed in Article 63, paragraph (1), items (i) through (iv) of the Act (excluding that accompanying the medical treatment listed in item (v) of that paragraph); the same applies in the following Article and in Article 42, paragraph (6), item (iii), paragraph (7), item (iii) and paragraph (8), item (iii))), and the amount obtained by totaling, for each insured person or dependent thereof, the amounts listed in the items of paragraph (3) relating to that medical treatment that the insured person or dependent received in the same month from each single hospital, etc. exceeds the base amount for calculating high-cost medical expenses, the total sum of the amounts obtained by deducting the base amount for calculating high-cost medical expenses from the respective totals is paid as high-cost medical expenses.
If an insured person or a dependent thereof receives treatment subject to specified benefits (excluding treatment subject to specified disease benefits prescribed in the following paragraph in the case where the insured person or a dependent thereof has received certification by the insurer under that paragraph, and the treatment prescribed in paragraph (9) in the case where the insured person or a dependent thereof has received certification by the insurer under that paragraph), and the amounts listed in paragraph (1), item (i), (a) through (f) relating to that treatment subject to specified benefits that the insured person or dependent received in the same month from each single hospital, etc. exceed the base amount for calculating high-cost medical expenses, the amount obtained by deducting the base amount for calculating high-cost medical expenses from the amounts listed in (a) through (f) of that item is paid as high-cost medical expenses.
If an insured person or a dependent thereof receives treatment subject to specified disease benefits (meaning, among treatment subject to specified benefits (excluding the treatment prescribed in paragraph (9) in the case where the insured person or a dependent thereof has received certification by the insurer under that paragraph), treatment for which benefits for medical care specified by the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare as benefits for reducing the burden of the costs necessary for the treatment of a disease for which a treatment method has not been established or another disease that, by being contracted, requires treatment over a long period are to be provided; the same applies in Article 42, paragraph (7)), the insured person or dependent who received that treatment subject to specified disease benefits has received certification by the insurer as provided by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, and the amounts listed in paragraph (1), item (i), (a) through (f) relating to that treatment subject to specified disease benefits that the insured person or dependent received in the same month from each single hospital, etc. exceed the base amount for calculating high-cost medical expenses, the amount obtained by deducting the base amount for calculating high-cost medical expenses from the amounts listed in (a) through (f) of that item is paid as high-cost medical expenses.
If an insured person or a dependent thereof is a public assistance recipient prescribed in Article 6, paragraph (1) of the Public Assistance Act (Act No. 144 of 1950), and the amounts listed in paragraph (1), item (i), (a) through (f) relating to medical treatment (excluding dietary treatment, living support and treatment subject to specified benefits) that the insured person or dependent received in the same month from each single hospital, etc. exceed the base amount for calculating high-cost medical expenses, the amount obtained by deducting the base amount for calculating high-cost medical expenses from the amounts listed in (a) through (f) of that item is paid as high-cost medical expenses.
If an insured person or a dependent thereof receives medical treatment (excluding dietary treatment and living support) for a disease specified by the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare that falls under all of the following items, the insured person or dependent who received that treatment has received certification by the insurer as provided by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, and the amounts listed in paragraph (1), item (i), (a) through (f) relating to that treatment that the insured person or dependent received in the same month from each single hospital, etc. exceed the base amount for calculating high-cost medical expenses, the amount obtained by deducting the base amount for calculating high-cost medical expenses from the amounts listed in (a) through (f) of that item is paid as high-cost medical expenses.
一
費用が著しく高額な一定の治療として厚生労働大臣が定める治療を要すること。
that the disease requires treatment specified by the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare as a certain treatment the cost of which is extremely high;
二
前号に規定する治療を著しく長期間にわたり継続しなければならないこと。
that the treatment prescribed in the preceding item must be continued over an extremely long period.