# 健康保険法 / Health Insurance Act — 第二百十五条 (Article 215) - 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: 第二百十五条 (Article 215) — address `art-215` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/art-215 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-215 - 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. --- ### 第二百十五条 art-215 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/art-215 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-215 **第一項** 医師、歯科医師、薬剤師若しくは手当を行った者又はこれを使用する者が、第六十条第一項（第百四十九条において準用する場合を含む。）の規定により、報告若しくは診療録、帳簿書類その他の物件の提示を命ぜられ、正当な理由がなくてこれに従わず、又は同項の規定による当該職員の質問に対して、正当な理由がなくて答弁せず、若しくは虚偽の答弁をしたときは、十万円以下の過料に処する。 art-215/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/art-215/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-215/par-1 If a physician, dentist, pharmacist or a person who provided medical care or the employer thereof is ordered to make a report or present a medical record, record book or other document pursuant to the provisions of Article 60, paragraph (1) (including when applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 149), and disobeys the order without justifiable grounds, without justifiable grounds fails to answer a question asked by the relevant official pursuant to the provisions of the same paragraph, or answers the question untruthfully, the person is subject to a civil fine of not more than 100,000 yen. Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "If a physician, dentist, pharmacist or a person who provided medical care or the employer thereof is ordered to make a report or present a medical record, record book or other document pursuant to the provisions of Article 60, paragraph (1) (including when applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 149), and disobeys the order without justifiable grounds, fails to answer a question asked by the relevant official pursuant to the provisions of the same paragraph, or answers the question untruthfully, the person is subject to a civil fine of not more than 100,000 yen." — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/3266/tb --- ## Cites - art-215/par-1: 第六十条第一項 → 健康保険法 第六十条第一項 (Article 60, paragraph (1)), art-60/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/art-60/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-60/par-1 - art-215/par-1: 第百四十九条 → 健康保険法 第百四十九条 (Article 149), art-149 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/art-149 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-149 --- ## 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 215, 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