# 健康保険法 / Health Insurance Act — 第百四十条 (Article 140) - Law: 健康保険法 (Health Insurance Act), 大正十一年法律第七十号 - English title "Health Insurance Act": Ministry of Justice translation - Kind: Act — the distinction between 法律 (Act), 政令 (Cabinet Order), 省令 (Ministerial Order) and 条例 (local ordinance) decides who may issue it and what it may say. - Provision: 第百四十条 (Article 140)（家族療養費） — address `art-140` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/art-140 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-140 - Every provision below carries its address and both URLs on the line under it. - Japanese text: e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁). English: as marked on each line below. Only the Japanese as published by the government has legal effect; the text below is a copy of it. 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They are never merged and never substituted for one another. --- ### 第百四十条（家族療養費） — (Dependent's Medical Expenses) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-140 · https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/art-140 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-140 **第一項** 日雇特例被保険者の被扶養者が受給資格者票を第六十三条第三項第一号又は第二号に掲げる病院若しくは診療所又は薬局のうち自己の選定するものに提出して、そのものから療養を受けたときは、日雇特例被保険者に対し、その療養に要した費用について、家族療養費を支給する。 art-140/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/art-140/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-140/par-1 When a dependent of an insured person submits the dependent's qualified recipient card to a hospital, clinic, or pharmacy that the dependent selected from those listed in Article 63, paragraph (3), item (i) or (ii) and receives evaluation treatment, patient-requested treatment, or selective treatment from that hospital, clinic, or pharmacy, dependent's medical expenses are paid to the specially-insured day laborer for the expenses required for the treatment. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 第百二十九条第二項、第四項及び第五項並びに第百三十二条の規定は、家族療養費の支給について準用する。 art-140/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/art-140/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-140/par-2 The provisions of Article 129, paragraphs (2), (4) and (5) as well as Article 132 apply mutatis mutandis to the payment of dependent's medical expenses. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第三項** 第八十七条第二項及び第三項の規定は、前項において準用する第百三十二条第一項又は第二項の規定により支給する療養費の額の算定について準用する。 art-140/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/art-140/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-140/par-3 The provisions of Article 87, paragraphs (2) and (3) apply mutatis mutandis to the calculation of the amount of medical expenses paid pursuant to the provisions of Article 132, paragraph (1) or (2) as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to the preceding paragraph. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-140/par-1: 第六十三条第三項第一号 → 健康保険法 第六十三条第三項第一号 (Article 63, paragraph (3), item (i)), art-63/par-3/item-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/art-63/par-3/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-63/par-3/item-1 - art-140/par-1: 第二号 → 健康保険法 第六十三条第三項第二号 (Article 63, paragraph (3), item (ii)), art-63/par-3/item-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/art-63/par-3/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-63/par-3/item-2 - art-140/par-2: 第百二十九条第二項 → 健康保険法 第百二十九条第二項 (Article 129, paragraph (2)), art-129/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/art-129/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-129/par-2 - art-140/par-2: 第四項 → 健康保険法 第百二十九条第四項 (Article 129, paragraph (4)), art-129/par-4 — https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/art-129/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-129/par-4 - art-140/par-2: 第五項 → 健康保険法 第百二十九条第五項 (Article 129, paragraph (5)), art-129/par-5 — https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/art-129/par-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-129/par-5 - art-140/par-2: 第百三十二条 → 健康保険法 第百三十二条 (Article 132), art-132 — https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/art-132 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-132 - art-140/par-3: 第八十七条第二項 → 健康保険法 第八十七条第二項 (Article 87, paragraph (2)), art-87/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/art-87/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-87/par-2 - art-140/par-3: 第三項 → 健康保険法 第八十七条第三項 (Article 87, paragraph (3)), art-87/par-3 — https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/art-87/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-87/par-3 - art-140/par-3: 前項 → 健康保険法 第百四十条第二項 (Article 140, paragraph (2)), art-140/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/art-140/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-140/par-2 - art-140/par-3: 第百三十二条第一項 → 健康保険法 第百三十二条第一項 (Article 132, paragraph (1)), art-132/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/art-132/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-132/par-1 - art-140/par-3: 第二項 → 健康保険法 第百三十二条第二項 (Article 132, paragraph (2)), art-132/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/art-132/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-132/par-2 ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 健康保険法 第百二十八条第三項（他の医療保険による給付等との調整） — https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/art-128/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-128/par-3 - 健康保険法 第百四十条第三項（家族療養費） — https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/art-140/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-140/par-3 --- ## Sources - e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 健康保険法 — the text in force from 2026-10-01 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/211AC0000000070/20261001_507AC0000000087), retrieved 2026-10-10 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Health Insurance Act — Ministry of Justice translation (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/3266/tb), retrieved 2026-10-10 - This site's parser, version 189 — 健康保険法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-10