Article 71Exception of a Designated In-Home Service Provider

①With regard to a Hospital, etc., when a medical facility that provides insured services or a pharmacy that provides insured services is appointed pursuant to the provisions of Article 63, paragraph (3), item (i) of the Health Insurance Act (including when it is deemed that the appointment under that item was made pursuant to the provisions of Article 69 of the same Act), it is deemed that the establisher of said Hospital, etc. was provided an appointment as service provider as set forth in the main clause of Article 41, paragraph (1) pertaining to In-Home Service provided by said Hospital, etc. (with regard to a hospital or a clinic, limited to Guidance for Management of In-Home Medical Long-Term Care and other types of In-Home Service as determined by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, and with regard to a pharmacy, limited to Guidance for Management of In-Home Medical Long-Term Care) at the time of said appointment, provided however, that this provision does not apply when the establisher of the Hospital, etc. offers a different notification pursuant to the provisions of Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare or when the appointment as service provider as set forth in the main clause of Article 41, paragraph (1) has been rescinded pursuant to the provisions of Article 77, paragraph (1) or Article 115-35, paragraph (6) prior to said appointment.

②An appointment as service provider as set forth in the main clause of Article 41, paragraph (1) pertaining to a person that was deemed as a Designated In-Home Service Provider pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph, when appointment as service provider of a medical facility that provides insured services or pharmacy that provides insured services is rescinded pursuant to the provisions of Article 80 of the Health Insurance Act with regard to said Hospital, etc., pertaining to said appointment as service provider, ceases to be effective.