# 健康保険法 / Health Insurance Act — 第百三十二条 (Article 132) - 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: 第百三十二条 (Article 132)（療養費） — address `art-132` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/art-132 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-132 - 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. 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They are never merged and never substituted for one another. --- ### 第百三十二条（療養費） — (Medical Expenses) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-132 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/art-132 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-132 **第一項** 保険者は、療養の給付若しくは入院時食事療養費、入院時生活療養費若しくは保険外併用療養費の支給（以下この項において「療養の給付等」という。）を行うことが困難であると認めるとき、又は日雇特例被保険者が第六十三条第三項第一号若しくは第二号に掲げる病院若しくは診療所若しくは薬局以外の病院、診療所、薬局その他の者から診療、薬剤の支給若しくは手当を受けた場合において、保険者がやむを得ないものと認めるときは、療養の給付等に代えて、療養費を支給することができる。 art-132/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/art-132/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-132/par-1 When an insurer finds it difficult to pay benefits for medical treatment or expenses for dietary treatment for inpatients, living support expenses for inpatients, or medical expenses combined with treatment outside insurance coverage (hereinafter referred to as a "benefits for medical treatment, etc." in this paragraph) or finds it unavoidable in cases where a specially-insured day laborer has received any medical care, medication or treatment from a hospital, clinic, pharmacy or other person not listed in Article 63, paragraph (3), items (i) and (ii), it may pay medical expenses in lieu of benefits for medical treatment, etc. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 日雇特例被保険者が、第百二十九条第三項に規定する確認を受けないで、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から診療又は薬剤の支給を受けた場合において、保険者が、その確認を受けなかったことを緊急やむを得ない理由によるものと認めるときも、前項と同様とする。 art-132/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/art-132/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-132/par-2 The provisions of the preceding paragraph apply when a specially-insured day laborer receives medical care or medication from a hospital, clinic or pharmacy listed in Article 63, paragraph (3), item (i) or (ii) without the confirmation prescribed in Article 129, paragraph (3) and the insurer finds that the lack of confirmation was due to urgent and unavoidable reasons. Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "The provisions of the preceding paragraph apply when a specially-insured day laborer receives medical care or medication from a hospital, clinic or pharmacy listed in Article 63, paragraph (3), item (i) or (ii) without the confirmation prescribed in Article 29 and the insurer finds that the lack of confirmation was due to urgent and unavoidable reasons." — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/3266/tb --- ## Cites - art-132/par-1: この項 → 健康保険法 第百三十二条第一項 (Article 132, paragraph (1)), art-132/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/art-132/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-132/par-1 - art-132/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-132/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-132/par-2: 第百二十九条第三項 → 健康保険法 第百二十九条第三項 (Article 129, paragraph (3)), art-129/par-3 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/art-129/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-129/par-3 - art-132/par-2: 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-132/par-2: 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-132/par-2: 前項 → 健康保険法 第百三十二条第一項 (Article 132, paragraph (1)), art-132/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/art-132/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-132/par-1 ## Cited by 10 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 健康保険法 第九十八条第三項（被保険者が日雇労働者又はその被扶養者となった場合） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/art-98/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-98/par-3 - 健康保険法 第百二十八条第三項（他の医療保険による給付等との調整） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/art-128/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-128/par-3 - 健康保険法 第百二十八条第五項（他の医療保険による給付等との調整） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/art-128/par-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-128/par-5 - 健康保険法 第百二十九条第二項第二号（療養の給付） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/art-129/par-2/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-129/par-2/item-2 - 健康保険法 第百三十二条第一項（療養費） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/art-132/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-132/par-1 - 健康保険法 第百三十二条第二項（療養費） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/art-132/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-132/par-2 - 健康保険法 第百四十条第二項（家族療養費） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/art-140/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-140/par-2 - 健康保険法 第百四十条第三項（家族療養費） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/art-140/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-140/par-3 - 健康保険法 第百四十五条第六項（特別療養費） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/art-145/par-6 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-145/par-6 - 健康保険法 第百四十五条第七項（特別療養費） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/art-145/par-7 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-145/par-7 --- ## Sources - claude-opus-5-5 — Corrections to the Ministry of Justice's English of paragraphs, written 2026-10-11 - 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 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Health Insurance Act (健康保険法), Article 132, paragraph (2) — the Ministry of Justice's English as printed (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