# 健康保険法 / Health Insurance Act — 第二条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 2) - 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: 第二条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 2)（保険医療機関の病床の指定等に当たっての公正の確保等） — address `suppl-4101-109/art-2` - 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-2 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/suppl-4101-109/art-2 - 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. --- ### 第二条（保険医療機関の病床の指定等に当たっての公正の確保等） — Ensuring Fairness in Designating Beds of Medical Institutions Providing Services Covered by Health Insurance, etc. caption: machine translation, not official suppl-4101-109/art-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/suppl-4101-109/art-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/suppl-4101-109/art-2 **第一項** 政府は、健康保険法第六十五条第四項（同法第六十六条第二項（同法第八十六条第十三項において準用する場合を含む。）及び第八十六条第十三項において準用する場合を含む。）の規定の適用に当たっては、被保険者等医療を受ける者の必要を反映して、良質かつ適切な地域医療が確保されるよう十分配慮するとともに、その理由を明らかにする等、公正の確保及び手続の透明性の確保に努めるものとする。 suppl-4101-109/art-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/suppl-4101-109/art-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/suppl-4101-109/art-2/par-1 In applying the provisions of Article 65, paragraph (4) of the Health Insurance Act (including as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 66, paragraph (2) of that Act (including as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 86, paragraph (13) of that Act) and Article 86, paragraph (13) of that Act), the government is to give full consideration to ensuring that good quality and appropriate community healthcare is secured, reflecting the needs of persons receiving medical care such as insured persons, and is to endeavor to ensure fairness and the transparency of procedures by, for example, clarifying the reasons. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - suppl-4101-109/art-2/par-1: 健康保険法第六十五条第四項 → 健康保険法 第六十五条第四項 (Article 65, paragraph (4)), art-65/par-4 — https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/art-65/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-65/par-4 - suppl-4101-109/art-2/par-1: 同法第六十六条第二項 → 健康保険法 第六十六条第二項 (Article 66, paragraph (2)), art-66/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/art-66/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-66/par-2 ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 健康保険法 附則第一条第一項第一号（施行期日） — https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/suppl-4101-109/art-1/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/suppl-4101-109/art-1/par-1/item-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 - 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