Article 81Deregistration of a Physician Providing Health Insurance Treatment or Pharmacist Filling Health Insurance Prescriptions
第八十一条（保険医又は保険薬剤師の登録の取消し）
The Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare may cancel the registration under Article 64 pertaining to the physician providing health insurance treatment or pharmacist filling health insurance prescriptions concerned (in the case listed in item (ii), the registration under that Article pertaining to the physician providing health insurance treatment who is the administrator of the medical institution providing services covered by health insurance concerned) in the case where any of the following items applies:
the physician providing health insurance treatment or pharmacist filling health insurance prescriptions has violated the provisions of Article 72, paragraph (1) (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);
the administrator of a medical institution providing services covered by health insurance has violated the provisions of Article 70-2, paragraph (2) (excluding when the administrator has exercised reasonable care and supervision as the administrator of that medical institution providing services covered by health insurance in order to prevent that violation);
the physician providing health insurance treatment or pharmacist filling health insurance prescriptions had been requested to appear pursuant to the provisions of Article 78, paragraph (1) (including when applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 85, paragraph (9), Article 85-2, paragraph (5), Article 86, paragraph (4), Article 110, paragraph (7), and Article 149; the same applies hereinafter in this item) but failed to respond or to reply to questions pursuant to the provisions of Article 78, paragraph (1), or answered untruthfully, or refused, obstructed, or evaded an inspection pursuant to the provisions of the same paragraph;
there are grounds that correspond to any of the preceding three items with respect to medical care or prescription based on medical insurance laws other than this act or the Act on Assurance of Medical Care for Elderly People;
この法律以外の医療保険各法又は高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律による診療又は調剤に関し、前三号のいずれかに相当する事由があったとき。
the physician providing health insurance treatment or pharmacist filling health insurance prescriptions has been sentenced to a fine pursuant to the provisions of this Act and other laws concerning citizens' health and medical care which are specified by Cabinet Order, and the execution of the sentence has not yet been completed or the execution of the sentence still applies;
the physician providing health insurance treatment or pharmacist filling health insurance prescriptions has come to fall under the category of a person who has been sentenced to imprisonment or a severer punishment, and the execution of the sentence has not yet been completed or the execution of the sentence still applies; or
beyond the cases listed in the preceding items, the physician providing health insurance treatment or pharmacist filling health insurance prescriptions violates this Act, medical insurance laws other than this act which are specified by Cabinet Order, or an order or disposition based on these Acts.