①If the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare finds it necessary in relation to the payment of medical expenses for home-nursing, the Minister may order a designated home-nursing provider or an entity which was a designated home-nursing provider, or a person who was a nurse or other employee at the home-nursing provider office to which the designation pertains (hereinafter referred to as a "former designated home-nursing business, etc." in this paragraph) to make a report, or submit or present the books and other documents, may request a designated home-nursing provider, or a nurse or other employee at the home-nursing provider office to which the designation pertains (including a former designated home-nursing businesses, etc.) to appear, or may have the ministry's official question the persons involved, or inspect the books and other documents or other articles of the designated home-nursing provider at the home-nursing provider office to which the designation pertains.

②The provisions of Article 7-38, paragraph (2) apply mutatis mutandis to questions or inspections pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph, and the provisions of paragraph (3) of the same Article apply mutatis mutandis to the authority pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph.