# 国民健康保険法 / National Health Insurance Act — 第八十七条 (Article 87) - Law: 国民健康保険法 (National Health Insurance Act), 昭和三十三年法律第百九十二号 - English title "National 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: 第八十七条 (Article 87)（審査委員会） — address `art-87` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/national-health-insurance-act/art-87 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/333AC0000000192/art-87 - 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. --- ### 第八十七条（審査委員会） — (Review Committee) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-87 · https://japanlaw.org/en/national-health-insurance-act/art-87 · https://japanlaw.org/l/333AC0000000192/art-87 **第一項** 第四十五条第五項の規定による委託を受けて診療報酬請求書の審査を行うため、都道府県の区域を区域とする連合会（その区域内の都道府県若しくは市町村又は組合の三分の二以上が加入しないものを除く。）に、国民健康保険診療報酬審査委員会（以下「審査委員会」という。）を置く。 art-87/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/national-health-insurance-act/art-87/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/333AC0000000192/art-87/par-1 In order to review medical bills as entrusted pursuant to the provisions of Article 45, paragraph (5), a Federation whose district covers the area of a prefecture (excluding any such Federation that has not been joined by two-thirds or more of the prefectures or Municipalities, or Societies within its district) shall have a National Health Insurance Medical Fees Review Committee (hereinafter referred to as the "Review Committee"). machine translation, not official **第二項** 連合会は、前項の規定による事務の遂行に支障のない範囲内で、健康保険法第七十六条第五項の規定による委託を受けて行う診療報酬請求書の審査を審査委員会に行わせることができる。 art-87/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/national-health-insurance-act/art-87/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/333AC0000000192/art-87/par-2 A Federation may, as far as not hindering the carrying out of the affairs set forth in the preceding paragraph, have the Review Committee conduct the review of medical bills to be conducted as entrusted pursuant to the provisions of Article 76, paragraph (5) of the Health Insurance Act. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-87/par-1: 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-87/par-2: 前項 → 国民健康保険法 第八十七条第一項 (Article 87, paragraph (1)), art-87/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/national-health-insurance-act/art-87/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/333AC0000000192/art-87/par-1 - art-87/par-2: 健康保険法第七十六条第五項 → 健康保険法 第七十六条第五項 (Article 76, paragraph (5)), art-76/par-5 — https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/art-76/par-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-76/par-5 ## Cited by 3 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 国民健康保険法 第七十五条の五第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/national-health-insurance-act/art-75-5/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/333AC0000000192/art-75-5/par-1 - 国民健康保険法 第八十七条第二項（審査委員会） — https://japanlaw.org/en/national-health-insurance-act/art-87/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/333AC0000000192/art-87/par-2 - 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 第百二十六条第二項（審査委員会） — https://japanlaw.org/en/elderly-medical-care-act/art-126/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-126/par-2 --- ## Sources - e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 国民健康保険法 — the text in force from 2026-10-01 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/333AC0000000192/20261001_507AC0000000087), retrieved 2026-10-17 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — National Health Insurance Act — Ministry of Justice translation (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/2453/tb), retrieved 2026-10-17 - claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch national-health-insurance-act-20261017T183826-009, translated 2026-10-18 - This site's parser, version 209 — 国民健康保険法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-17