# 健康保険法 / Health Insurance Act — 第百四十八条 (Article 148) - 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: 第百四十八条 (Article 148)（受給方法） — address `art-148` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/art-148 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-148 - 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. --- ### 第百四十八条（受給方法） — (Receiving Method) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-148 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/art-148 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-148 **第一項** 日雇特例被保険者に係る入院時食事療養費、入院時生活療養費、保険外併用療養費、療養費、訪問看護療養費、移送費、傷病手当金、埋葬料、出産育児一時金、出産手当金、家族療養費、家族訪問看護療養費、家族移送費、家族埋葬料、家族出産育児一時金又は特別療養費の支給を受けようとする者は、厚生労働省令で定めるところにより、受給要件を備えることを証明できる日雇特例被保険者手帳又は受給資格者票及びその他の書類を添えて、申請しなければならない。 art-148/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/art-148/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-148/par-1 A person who intends to receive payment of dietary treatment expenses for inpatients, living support expenses for inpatients, medical expenses combined with treatment outside insurance coverage, medical expenses, medical expenses for home-nursing, transport expenses, injury and sickness allowance, burial charges, lump-sum allowance for childbirth and childcare, childbirth allowance, dependent's medical expenses, dependent's medical expenses for home-nursing, dependent's transport expenses, dependent's burial charges, lump-sum allowance for dependent's childbirth and childcare, or special medical expenses pertaining to a specially-insured day laborer must submit an application for the payment with a specially-insured day laborer's insurance book, qualified recipient card, or other documents that prove that the person meets the recipient requirements pursuant to Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare. Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "A person who intends to receive payment of dietary treatment expenses for inpatients, living support expenses for inpatients, medical expenses combined with treatment outside insurance coverage, medical expenses, medical expenses for home-nursing, transport expenses, injury and sickness allowance, burial charges, lump-sum allowance for childbirth and childcare, childbirth allowance, dependent's medical expenses, dependent's medical expenses for home-nursing, dependent's transport expenses, dependent's burial charges, lump-sum allowance for dependent's childbirth and childcare, or special medical expenses pertaining to a specially-insured day laborers must submit an application for the payment with a specially-insured day laborer's insurance book, qualified recipient card, or other documents that prove that the person meets the recipient requirements pursuant to Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare." — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/3266/tb --- ## 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 148, paragraph (1) — 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