The Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare may rescind the designation referred to in Article 88, paragraph (1) pertaining to a designated home-nursing provider that falls under any of the following items:

The Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare must make public notice of the cases listed below in those cases:

①When an insured person has been transported to a hospital or clinic in order to receive medical treatment (including medical treatment covered by medical expenses combined with treatment outside insurance coverage), the insurer pays, as transport expenses, an amount calculated pursuant to Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare to the insured person.

②The transport expenses referred to in the preceding paragraph are to be paid only if the insurer finds it necessary pursuant to Order of Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare.

①If an insured person has lost eligibility and become a specially-insured day laborer or a dependent thereof, and, at the time of loss of the eligibility, the person receives a benefit for medical treatment, medical treatment covered by expenses for dietary treatment for inpatients, medical treatment covered by expenses for living support for inpatients, medical treatment covered by expenses for medical treatment combined with treatment outside insurance coverage, medical treatment covered by medical expenses, or medical treatment covered by medical expenses for home-nursing, or a designated in-home service covered by expenses for in-home long-term care service pursuant to the provisions of the Long-Term Care Insurance Act (meaning designated in-home service prescribed in Article 41, paragraph (1) of the same Act; the same applies in Article 129, paragraph (2), item (ii)),or an in-home service covered by an exceptional allowance for in-home long-term care service (meaning in-home service prescribed in Article 8, paragraph (1) of the same Act; the same applies in Article 129, paragraph (2), item (ii) and Article 135, paragraph (1)), a service equivalent thereto, a designated community-based service covered by expenses for community-based long-term care service (meaning designated community-based service prescribed in Article 42-2, paragraph (1) of the same Act; the same applies in Article 129, paragraph (2), item (ii)), a community-based service covered by an exceptional allowance for community-based long-term care service (meaning community-based service prescribed in Article 8, paragraph (14) of the same Act; the same applies in Article 129, paragraph (2), item (ii) and Article 135, paragraph (1)), a service equivalent thereto, a designated facility service, etc. covered by expenses for long-term care facility service (meaning designated facility service, etc. prescribed in Article 48, paragraph (1) of the same Act; the same applies in Article 129, paragraph (2), item (ii)), a facility service covered by an exceptional allowance for long-term care facility service (meaning facility service prescribed in Article 8, paragraph (26) of the same Act; the same applies in Article 129, paragraph (2), item (ii) and Article 135, paragraph (1)), a designated service to prevent long-term care covered by expenses for service to prevent long-term care (meaning designated service to prevent long-term care prescribed in Article 53, paragraph (1) of the same Act; the same applies in Article 129, paragraph (2), item (ii)), a service to prevent long-term care covered by exceptional allowance for service to prevent long-term care (meaning service to prevent long-term care prescribed in Article 8-2, paragraph (1) of the same Act; the same applies in Article 129, paragraph (2), item (ii) and Article 135, paragraph (1)), or a service equivalent thereto, pursuant to the provisions of the same Act, that is equivalent to medical treatment, then the person may receive from the relevant insurer benefits for medical treatment, expenses for dietary treatment for inpatients, expenses for living support for inpatients, medical expenses combined with treatment outside insurance coverage, medical expenses, medical expenses for home-nursing, or transport expenses with respect to the relevant illness or injury, and any illness arising therefrom.

②Benefits for medical treatment, or expenses for dietary treatment for inpatients, expenses for living support for inpatients, medical expenses combined with treatment outside insurance coverage, medical expenses, medical expenses for home-nursing, or transportation expenses pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph are not paid when any of the events listed in the following items has occurred:

③Benefits for medical treatment, or expenses for dietary treatment for inpatients, expenses for living support for inpatients, medical expenses combined with treatment outside insurance coverage, medical expenses, medical expenses for home-nursing, or transport expenses pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (1) are not paid during the period in which the relevant person is eligible for payment of special medical expenses (including medical expenses paid pursuant to the provisions of Article 132 as applied mutatis mutandis to Article 145, paragraph (6)), transport expenses, or dependent's transport expenses pursuant to the provisions of the next chapter with respect to the relevant illness or injury.

④Benefits for medical treatment, or expenses for dietary treatment for inpatients, expenses for living support for inpatients, medical expenses combined with treatment outside insurance coverage, medical expenses, or medical expenses for home-nursing pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (1) are not paid if the relevant person is eligible for any benefit corresponding to one of the above benefits pursuant to the provisions of the Long-Term Care Insurance Act with respect to the relevant illness or injury.

①When an insured person (excluding an insured person with optional and continued coverage; the same applies in Article 102, paragraph (1)) is unable to engage in labor due to medical treatment, the injury and sickness allowance is paid for the period during which the person is unable to engage in work, starting from the day on which three days elapsed after the day on which the person becomes unable to engage in work.

②The amount of injury and sickness allowance per day is an amount equivalent to two-thirds of the amount equivalent to 1/30th of the average standard monthly remuneration (limited to the amount specified by the relevant insured person's insurer; the same applies hereinafter in this paragraph) of each month in the most recent 12 consecutive months before the month in which the payment of injury and sickness allowance starts (if the 1/30 amount is a figure with less than five yen in the ones place, it is to be rounded down, and if it is a figure with at least five yen but less than ten yen in the ones place, it is to be rounded up to the nearest ten yen; if the two-thirds amount is a figure with less than 0.5 yen in the ones place, it is rounded down, and if it is a figure with at least 0.5 yen but less than one yen in the ones place, it is to be rounded up to the nearest one yen); provided, however, that if the number of consecutive months for which the average standard monthly remuneration is determined is less than 12, an amount equivalent to two-thirds of an amount equivalent to smaller of the amounts listed in the following items (if the amount is a figure with less than 0.5 yen in the one place, it is to be rounded down, and if it is a figure with at least 0.5 yen but less than one yen in the ones place, it is to be rounded up to the nearest one yen).

③Beyond what is provided for in the preceding paragraph, necessary matters concerning calculation of the amount of injury and sickness allowance are specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour, and Welfare.

④The payment period for injury and sickness allowance is, with regard to the same sickness or injury as well as any sickness or injury caused thereby, one year and six months in total, counted from the day on which the payment starts.