# 健康保険法 / Health Insurance Act — 第六十条 (Article 60) - 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: 第六十条 (Article 60)（診療録の提示等） — address `art-60` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/art-60 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-60 - 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. --- ### 第六十条（診療録の提示等） — (Presentation of medical records) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-60 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/art-60 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-60 **第一項** 厚生労働大臣は、保険給付を行うにつき必要があると認めるときは、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に対し、その行った診療、薬剤の支給又は手当に関し、報告若しくは診療録、帳簿書類その他の物件の提示を命じ、又は当該職員に質問させることができる。 art-60/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/art-60/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-60/par-1 If the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare finds it necessary in relation to the payment of insurance benefits, the Minister may order a physician, dentist, pharmacist or person who provided medical care or a person who employs any of these to make a report or to present medical records, record books, and other documents or other objects concerning the provided medical care, provision of drugs, or medical treatment, or may order the ministry's official to ask the person questions. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 厚生労働大臣は、必要があると認めるときは、療養の給付又は入院時食事療養費、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、家族療養費若しくは家族訪問看護療養費の支給を受けた被保険者又は被保険者であった者に対し、当該保険給付に係る診療、調剤又は第八十八条第一項に規定する指定訪問看護の内容に関し、報告を命じ、又は当該職員に質問させることができる。 art-60/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/art-60/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-60/par-2 If the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare finds it necessary, the Minister may order a person who is or was an insured person and who received payment of benefits for medical treatment, or expenses for dietary treatment for inpatients, living support expenses for inpatients, medical expenses combined with treatment outside insurance coverage, medical expenses, medical expenses for home-nursing, dependent's medical expenses, or dependent's medical expenses for home-nursing to make a report on or have the Ministry's official ask questions about the medical care or prescription pertaining to the insurance benefits, or designated home-nursing as prescribed in Article 88, paragraph (1). Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "If the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare finds it necessary, the Minister may order a person who is or was an insured person and who received payment of benefits for medical treatment, or expenses for dietary treatment for inpatients, living support expenses for inpatients, medical expenses combined with treatment outside insurance coverage, medical expenses, medical expenses for home-nursing, dependent's medical expenses, or dependent's medical expenses for home-nursing to make a report on or have the Ministry's official ask questions about the medical care or prescription pertaining to the insurance benefits, or designated home-nursing as prescribed in Article 88. paragraph (1)." — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/3266/tb **第三項** 第七条の三十八第二項の規定は前二項の規定による質問について、同条第三項の規定は前二項の規定による権限について準用する。 art-60/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/art-60/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-60/par-3 The provisions of Article 7-38, paragraph (2) apply mutatis mutandis to questions pursuant to the provisions of the preceding two paragraphs, and the provisions of paragraph (3) of the same Article apply mutatis mutandis to the authority granted pursuant to the provisions of the preceding two paragraphs. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-60/par-2: 第八十八条第一項 → 健康保険法 第八十八条第一項 (Article 88, paragraph (1)), art-88/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/art-88/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-88/par-1 - art-60/par-3: 第七条の三十八第二項 → 健康保険法 第七条の三十八第二項 (Article 7-38, paragraph (2)), art-7-38/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/art-7-38/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-7-38/par-2 - art-60/par-3: 前二項 → 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-60/par-3: 前二項 → 健康保険法 第六十条第二項 (Article 60, paragraph (2)), art-60/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/art-60/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-60/par-2 - art-60/par-3: 同条第三項 → 健康保険法 第七条の三十八第三項 (Article 7-38, paragraph (3)), art-7-38/par-3 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/art-7-38/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-7-38/par-3 ## Cited by 4 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 健康保険法 第六十条第三項（診療録の提示等） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/art-60/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-60/par-3 - 健康保険法 第百四十九条第一項（準用） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/art-149/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-149/par-1 - 健康保険法 第二百十条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/art-210/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-210/par-1 - 健康保険法 第二百十五条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/art-215/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-215/par-1 --- ## 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 60, 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