# 健康保険法 / Health Insurance Act — 第百三十一条 (Article 131) - 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: 第百三十一条 (Article 131)（保険外併用療養費） — address `art-131` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/art-131 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-131 - 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. --- ### 第百三十一条（保険外併用療養費） — (Medical Expenses Combined with Treatment Outside Insurance Coverage) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-131 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/art-131 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-131 **第一項** 日雇特例被保険者が受給資格者票を提出して、第六十三条第三項第一号又は第二号に掲げる病院若しくは診療所又は薬局のうち自己の選定するものから、評価療養、患者申出療養又は選定療養を受けたときは、その療養に要した費用について、保険外併用療養費を支給する。 art-131/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/art-131/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-131/par-1 When a specially insured day laborer submits the laborer's qualified recipient card and receives evaluation treatment, patient-requested treatment, or selective treatment from a hospital, clinic, or pharmacy that the laborer selected from those listed in Article 63, paragraph (3), item (i) or (ii), medical expenses combined with treatment outside insurance coverage are paid for expenses required for that treatment. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 第百二十九条第二項、第四項及び第五項の規定は、保険外併用療養費の支給について準用する。 art-131/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/art-131/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-131/par-2 The provisions of Article 129, paragraphs (2), (4) and (5) apply mutatis mutandis to the payment of medical expenses combined with treatment outside insurance coverage. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-131/par-1: 第六十三条第三項第一号 → 健康保険法 第六十三条第三項第一号 (Article 63, paragraph (3), item (i)), art-63/par-3/item-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/art-63/par-3/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-63/par-3/item-1 - art-131/par-1: 第二号 → 健康保険法 第六十三条第三項第二号 (Article 63, paragraph (3), item (ii)), art-63/par-3/item-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/art-63/par-3/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-63/par-3/item-2 - art-131/par-2: 第百二十九条第二項 → 健康保険法 第百二十九条第二項 (Article 129, paragraph (2)), art-129/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/art-129/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-129/par-2 - art-131/par-2: 第四項 → 健康保険法 第百二十九条第四項 (Article 129, paragraph (4)), art-129/par-4 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/art-129/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-129/par-4 - art-131/par-2: 第五項 → 健康保険法 第百二十九条第五項 (Article 129, paragraph (5)), art-129/par-5 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/art-129/par-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-129/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