Article 70Responsibilities of Medical Institutions Providing Services Covered by Health Insurance or Pharmacies Providing Services Covered by Health Insurance
第七十条（保険医療機関又は保険薬局の責務）
A medical institution providing services covered by health insurance or a pharmacy providing services covered by health insurance must put physicians providing health insurance treatment who are engaging in medical care at the institution or pharmacists filling health insurance prescriptions who are engaging in prescription at the pharmacy in charge of medical care or prescription pursuant to Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare referred to in Article 72, paragraph (1) and must be responsible for benefits for medical treatment pursuant to Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare.
Beyond the provisions of the preceding paragraph (including when applied mutatis mutandis to Article 85, paragraph (9), Article 85-2, paragraph (5), Article 86, paragraph (4), Article 110, paragraph (7), and Article 149), a medical institution providing services covered by health insurance or a pharmacy providing services covered by health insurance is responsible for benefits for medical treatment pursuant to the provisions of the Seamen's Insurance Act, National Health Insurance Act, National Public Employees Mutual Aid Association Act (Act No. 128 of 1958; including when this is applied mutatis mutandis to other laws and the same rule governs), or Local Public Employees Mutual Aid Association Act (hereinafter referred to as "medical insurance laws other than this act") as well as medical treatment for insured persons and dependents, benefits for medical treatment pursuant to the provisions of the Act on Assurance of Medical Care for Elderly People, and treatment pertaining to dietary treatment expenses for inpatients, living support expenses for inpatients, and medical expenses combined with treatment outside insurance coverage.
A medical institution providing services covered by health insurance which is an advanced treatment hospital prescribed by Article 4-2 of the Medial Care Act or otherwise specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare is to take measures specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare as measures for sharing functions and for operational cooperation between medical institutions providing services covered by health insurance, for instance, by referring patients to medical institutions providing services covered by health insurance appropriate for the patients' symptoms or other circumstances.
保険医療機関のうち医療法第四条の二に規定する特定機能病院その他の病院であって厚生労働省令で定めるものは、患者の病状その他の患者の事情に応じた適切な他の保険医療機関を当該患者に紹介することその他の保険医療機関相互間の機能の分担及び業務の連携のための措置として厚生労働省令で定める措置を講ずるものとする。
A medical institution providing services covered by health insurance or a pharmacy providing services covered by health insurance is to cooperate with measures taken by the national government or a local government for the provision of the medical care listed in the items of Article 37, paragraph (1) of that Act and other necessary medical care concerning pandemic influenza or similar infectious disease prescribed in Article 6, paragraph (7) of the Act on the Prevention of Infectious Diseases and Medical Care for Patients with Infectious Diseases and other infectious diseases.