# 健康保険法 / Health Insurance Act — 第六十七条 (Article 67) - 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: 第六十七条 (Article 67)（地方社会保険医療協議会への諮問） — address `art-67` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/art-67 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-67 - 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. --- ### 第六十七条（地方社会保険医療協議会への諮問） — (Advisory to Local Social Insurance Medical Councils) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-67 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/art-67 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-67 **第一項** 厚生労働大臣は、保険医療機関に係る第六十三条第三項第一号の指定をしないこととするとき、若しくはその申請に係る病床の全部若しくは一部を除いて指定（指定の変更を含む。）を行おうとするとき、又は保険薬局に係る同号の指定をしないこととするときは、地方社会保険医療協議会の議を経なければならない。 art-67/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/art-67/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-67/par-1 When the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare determines to not make a designation referred to in Article 63, paragraph (3), item (i) pertaining to a medical institution providing services covered by health insurance, determines to make a designation excluding all or some of the beds pertaining to that medical institution's application (including an alternation of such a designation), or determines to make a designation referred to in Article 63, paragraph (3), item (i) pertaining to a pharmacy providing services covered by health insurance, the Minister must undergo discussion at the relevant local social insurance medical council. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-67/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 ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 健康保険法 附則第二条第三項（健康保険法及び船員保険法の一部改正に伴う経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/suppl-3481-89/art-2/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/suppl-3481-89/art-2/par-3 --- ## 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