# 健康保険法 / Health Insurance Act — 第七十三条 (Article 73) - 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: 第七十三条 (Article 73)（厚生労働大臣の指導） — address `art-73` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/art-73 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-73 - 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. --- ### 第七十三条（厚生労働大臣の指導） — (Guidance by the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-73 · https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/art-73 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-73 **第一項** 保険医療機関及び保険薬局は療養の給付に関し、保険医及び保険薬剤師は健康保険の診療又は調剤に関し、厚生労働大臣の指導を受けなければならない。 art-73/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/art-73/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-73/par-1 A medical institution providing services covered by health insurance or a pharmacy providing services covered by health insurance, and the physician providing health insurance treatment or the pharmacist filling health insurance prescriptions, must receive guidance from the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare with respect to benefits for medical treatment and with respect to medical care or prescription services provided under a national health insurance program, respectively. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 厚生労働大臣は、前項の指導をする場合において、必要があると認めるときは、診療又は調剤に関する学識経験者をその関係団体の指定により指導に立ち会わせるものとする。ただし、関係団体が指定を行わない場合又は指定された者が立ち会わない場合は、この限りでない。 art-73/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/art-73/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-73/par-2 When the guidance referred to in the preceding paragraph is provided, and the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare finds it necessary, the Minister is to have persons with knowledge and experience concerning medical care or prescription services attend during the guidance pursuant to designation by related organizations; provided, however, that this does not apply if related organizations make no designation or the designated persons do not attend. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-73/par-2: 前項 → 健康保険法 第七十三条第一項 (Article 73, paragraph (1)), art-73/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/art-73/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-73/par-1 ## Cited by 8 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 健康保険法 第六十五条第三項第二号（保険医療機関又は保険薬局の指定） — https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/art-65/par-3/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-65/par-3/item-2 - 健康保険法 第七十三条第二項（厚生労働大臣の指導） — https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/art-73/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-73/par-2 - 健康保険法 第七十八条第二項（保険医療機関又は保険薬局の報告等） — https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/art-78/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-78/par-2 - 健康保険法 第八十五条第九項（入院時食事療養費） — https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/art-85/par-9 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-85/par-9 - 健康保険法 第八十五条の二第五項（入院時生活療養費） — https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/art-85-2/par-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-85-2/par-5 - 健康保険法 第八十六条第四項（保険外併用療養費） — https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/art-86/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-86/par-4 - 健康保険法 第百十条第七項（家族療養費） — https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/art-110/par-7 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-110/par-7 - 健康保険法 第百四十九条第一項（準用） — https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/art-149/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-149/par-1 --- ## 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