# 医療法 / Medical Care Act — 第三十八条の七 (Article 38-7) - Law: 医療法 (Medical Care Act), 昭和二十三年法律第二百五号 - English title "Medical Care 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: 第三十八条の七 (Article 38-7) — address `art-38-7` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/art-38-7 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-38-7 - 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. --- ### 第三十八条の七 art-38-7 · https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/art-38-7 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-38-7 **第一項** 厚生労働大臣は、特定医薬品の需給状況を把握するため、地域における医療及び介護の総合的な確保の促進に関する法律第十二条の二第三項の情報その他厚生労働省令で定める情報（次項において「医薬品調剤等情報」という。）について調査及び分析を行うことができる。 art-38-7/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/art-38-7/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-38-7/par-1 In order to ascertain the state of supply and demand for specified pharmaceuticals, the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare may conduct surveys and analysis of the information under Article 12-2, paragraph (3) of the Act on Promotion of Comprehensive Securing of Medical and Long-Term Care in Communities and other information specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare (referred to as "information on dispensing of pharmaceuticals, etc." in the following paragraph). machine translation, not official **第二項** 医療情報基盤・診療報酬審査支払機構又は国民健康保険法第四十五条第五項に規定する国民健康保険団体連合会は、前項の調査及び分析の用に供するため、厚生労働大臣に対し、それぞれが保有する医薬品調剤等情報を、厚生労働省令で定める方法により提供しなければならない。 art-38-7/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/art-38-7/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-38-7/par-2 The Medical Information Infrastructure and Medical Fee Examination and Payment Organization or a Federation of National Health Insurance Associations prescribed in Article 45, paragraph (5) of the National Health Insurance Act must, for use in the surveys and analysis under the preceding paragraph, provide the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare with the information on dispensing of pharmaceuticals, etc. that each of them holds, by the method specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - art-38-7/par-1: 地域における医療及び介護の総合的な確保の促進に関する法律第十二条の二第三項 → e-Gov law 401AC0000000064, 第十二条の二第三項 (Article 12-2, paragraph (3)), art-12-2/par-3 — not held in this collection - art-38-7/par-1: 次項 → 医療法 第三十八条の七第二項 (Article 38-7, paragraph (2)), art-38-7/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/art-38-7/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-38-7/par-2 - art-38-7/par-2: 国民健康保険法第四十五条第五項 → 国民健康保険法 第四十五条第五項 (Article 45, paragraph (5)), art-45/par-5 — https://japanlaw.org/en/national-health-insurance-act/art-45/par-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/333AC0000000192/art-45/par-5 - art-38-7/par-2: 前項 → 医療法 第三十八条の七第一項 (Article 38-7, paragraph (1)), art-38-7/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/art-38-7/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-38-7/par-1 ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 医療法 第三十八条の七第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/art-38-7/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-38-7/par-1 - 医療法 第三十八条の七第二項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/art-38-7/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-38-7/par-2 --- ## Sources - e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 医療法 — the text in force from 2026-10-01 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/323AC0000000205/20261001_507AC0000000087), retrieved 2026-10-19 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Medical Care Act — Ministry of Justice translation (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4006/tb), retrieved 2026-10-19 - claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch medical-care-act-20261019T151250-007, translated 2026-10-20 - This site's parser, version 210 — 医療法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-19