# 健康保険法 / Health Insurance Act — 第七十九条 (Article 79) - 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: 第七十九条 (Article 79)（保険医療機関等の指定の辞退又は保険医等の登録の抹消） — address `art-79` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/art-79 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-79 - 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. --- ### 第七十九条（保険医療機関等の指定の辞退又は保険医等の登録の抹消） — (Decline of Designation as a Medical Institution Providing Services Covered by Health Insurance, or Unregistration of a Physician Providing Health Insurance Treatments) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-79 · https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/art-79 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-79 **第一項** 保険医療機関又は保険薬局は、一月以上の予告期間を設けて、その指定を辞退することができる。 art-79/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/art-79/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-79/par-1 A medical institution providing services covered by health insurance or pharmacy providing services covered by health insurance may decline its designation by giving notice not less than one month in advance. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 保険医又は保険薬剤師は、一月以上の予告期間を設けて、その登録の抹消を求めることができる。 art-79/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/art-79/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-79/par-2 A physician providing health insurance treatment or pharmacist filling health insurance prescriptions may request deregistration by giving notice not less than one month in advance. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 健康保険法 附則第二条第四項（健康保険法の一部改正に伴う経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/suppl-3511-62/art-2/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/suppl-3511-62/art-2/par-4 - 健康保険法 附則第二条第五項（健康保険法の一部改正に伴う経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/suppl-3511-62/art-2/par-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/suppl-3511-62/art-2/par-5 --- ## 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