# 健康保険法 / Health Insurance Act — 第六十六条 (Article 66) - 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: 第六十六条 (Article 66)（保険医療機関の指定の変更） — address `art-66` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/art-66 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-66 - 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. --- ### 第六十六条（保険医療機関の指定の変更） — (Change of Designation of Medical Institutions Providing Services Covered by Health Insurance) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-66 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/art-66 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-66 **第一項** 前条第二項の病院又は診療所の開設者は、第六十三条第三項第一号の指定に係る病床数の増加又は病床の種別の変更をしようとするときは、厚生労働省令で定めるところにより、当該病院又は診療所に係る同号の指定の変更を申請しなければならない。 art-66/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/art-66/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-66/par-1 When intending to increase the number of beds or to alter bed classifications related to the designation pursuant to Article 63, paragraph (3), item (i), the establisher of the hospital or clinic referred to in paragraph (2) of the preceding Article must apply for a change of designation referred to in the same item pertaining to the hospital or clinic pursuant to Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour, and Welfare. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 前条第四項の規定は、前項の指定の変更の申請について準用する。 art-66/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/art-66/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-66/par-2 The provisions of paragraph (4) of the preceding Article apply mutatis mutandis to an application for alteration of designation referred to in the preceding paragraph. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-66/par-1: 前条第二項 → 健康保険法 第六十五条第二項 (Article 65, paragraph (2)), art-65/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/art-65/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-65/par-2 - art-66/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-66/par-2: 前条第四項 → 健康保険法 第六十五条第四項 (Article 65, paragraph (4)), art-65/par-4 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/art-65/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-65/par-4 - art-66/par-2: 前項 → 健康保険法 第六十六条第一項 (Article 66, paragraph (1)), art-66/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/art-66/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-66/par-1 ## Cited by 3 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 健康保険法 第六十五条第二項（保険医療機関又は保険薬局の指定） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/art-65/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-65/par-2 - 健康保険法 第六十六条第二項（保険医療機関の指定の変更） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/art-66/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-66/par-2 - 健康保険法 附則第二条第一項（保険医療機関の病床の指定等に当たっての公正の確保等） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/suppl-4101-109/art-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/suppl-4101-109/art-2/par-1 --- ## 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