# 健康保険法 / Health Insurance Act — 第六十八条 (Article 68) - 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: 第六十八条 (Article 68)（保険医療機関又は保険薬局の指定の更新） — address `art-68` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/art-68 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-68 - 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. Every English rendering below is a translation and says which kind: the Ministry of Justice's translation, or this site's machine translation, whose model and date the Sources list names. They are never merged and never substituted for one another. --- ### 第六十八条（保険医療機関又は保険薬局の指定の更新） — (Renewal of Designation of Medical Institutions Providing Services Covered by Health Insurance or Pharmacies Providing Services Covered by Health Insurance) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-68 · https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/art-68 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-68 **第一項** 第六十三条第三項第一号の指定は、指定の日から起算して六年を経過したときは、その効力を失う。 art-68/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/art-68/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-68/par-1 A designation as referred to in Article 63, paragraph (3), item (i) expires when six years have elapsed after the day of designation. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 保険医療機関（第六十五条第二項の病院及び診療所を除く。）又は保険薬局であって厚生労働省令で定めるものについては、前項の規定によりその指定の効力を失う日前六月から同日前三月までの間に、別段の申出がないときは、同条第一項の申請があったものとみなす。 art-68/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/art-68/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-68/par-2 With regard to a medical institution providing services covered by health insurance (excluding hospitals and clinics referred to in Article 65, paragraph (2)) or a pharmacy providing services covered by health insurance that are specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, unless otherwise notified during the period from since six months before the expiration date of the designation pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph until three months before that date, the application under Article 65, paragraph (1) is deemed to have been made. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-68/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-68/par-2: 第六十五条第二項 → 健康保険法 第六十五条第二項 (Article 65, paragraph (2)), art-65/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/art-65/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-65/par-2 - art-68/par-2: 前項 → 健康保険法 第六十八条第一項 (Article 68, paragraph (1)), art-68/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/art-68/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-68/par-1 - art-68/par-2: 同条第一項 → 健康保険法 第六十五条第一項 (Article 65, paragraph (1)), art-65/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/art-65/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-65/par-1 ## Cited by 4 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 健康保険法 第六十八条第二項（保険医療機関又は保険薬局の指定の更新） — https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/art-68/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-68/par-2 - 健康保険法 第六十八条の二第一項（保険医療機関の期限付指定） — https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/art-68-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-68-2/par-1 - 健康保険法 第六十八条の二第二項（保険医療機関の期限付指定） — https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/art-68-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-68-2/par-2 - 健康保険法 附則第五条第二項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/suppl-4181-83/art-5/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/suppl-4181-83/art-5/par-2 --- ## 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