# 健康保険法 / Health Insurance Act — 第十六条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 16)

- 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: 第十六条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 16) — address `suppl-4101-109/art-16`
- Text in force since: 2026-10-01
- URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/suppl-4101-109/art-16
- Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/suppl-4101-109/art-16
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### 第十六条
<sup>suppl-4101-109/art-16 · https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/suppl-4101-109/art-16 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/suppl-4101-109/art-16</sup>

**第一項**  前三条の規定は、健康保険法第八十六条第一項第一号に規定する特定承認保険医療機関の承認について準用する。
<sup>suppl-4101-109/art-16/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/suppl-4101-109/art-16/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/suppl-4101-109/art-16/par-1</sup>
The provisions of the preceding three Articles apply mutatis mutandis to the approval of a specially approved medical institution providing services covered by health insurance prescribed in Article 86, paragraph (1), item (i) of the Health Insurance Act.
<sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

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## Cites
- suppl-4101-109/art-16/par-1: 前三条 → 健康保険法 附則第十三条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 13), suppl-4101-109/art-13 — https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/suppl-4101-109/art-13 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/suppl-4101-109/art-13
- suppl-4101-109/art-16/par-1: 前三条 → 健康保険法 附則第十四条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 14), suppl-4101-109/art-14 — https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/suppl-4101-109/art-14 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/suppl-4101-109/art-14
- suppl-4101-109/art-16/par-1: 前三条 → 健康保険法 附則第十五条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 15), suppl-4101-109/art-15 — https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/suppl-4101-109/art-15 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/suppl-4101-109/art-15

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## 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
- claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch health-insurance-act-20261010T183826-019, translated 2026-10-11
- This site's parser, version 189 — 健康保険法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-10