# 健康保険法 / Health Insurance Act — 第七十七条 (Article 77) - 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: 第七十七条 (Article 77)（療養の給付に要する費用の額の定めに関する厚生労働大臣の調査） — address `art-77` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/art-77 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-77 - 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. --- ### 第七十七条（療養の給付に要する費用の額の定めに関する厚生労働大臣の調査） — Survey by the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare Concerning the Determination of the Amount of Expenses Required for Benefits for Medical Treatment caption: machine translation, not official art-77 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/art-77 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-77 **第一項** 厚生労働大臣は、前条第二項の定めのうち薬剤に関する定めその他厚生労働大臣の定めを適正なものとするため、必要な調査を行うことができる。 art-77/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/art-77/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-77/par-1 The Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare may conduct a necessary survey to ensure the appropriateness of the provisions for chemicals among the provisions of paragraph (2) of the preceding Article and other provisions specified by the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 厚生労働大臣は、保険医療機関のうち病院であって厚生労働省令で定めるものに関する前条第二項の定めを適正なものとするため、必要な調査を行うものとする。 art-77/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/art-77/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-77/par-2 The Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare is to conduct a necessary survey in order to ensure the appropriateness of the provisions of paragraph (2) of the preceding Article with regard to hospitals, among medical institutions providing services covered by health insurance, that are specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare. machine translation, not official **第三項** 前項に規定する病院は、同項の調査に資するため、当該病院に入院する患者に提供する医療の内容その他の厚生労働大臣が定める情報（第百五十条の二第一項及び第百五十条の三において「診療等関連情報」という。）を厚生労働大臣に報告しなければならない。 art-77/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/art-77/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-77/par-3 A hospital prescribed in the preceding paragraph must, in order to contribute to the survey under that paragraph, report to the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare information specified by the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare, such as the content of medical care provided to patients admitted to that hospital (referred to as "medical care-related information" in Article 150-2, paragraph (1) and Article 150-3). machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - art-77/par-1: 前条第二項 → 健康保険法 第七十六条第二項 (Article 76, paragraph (2)), art-76/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/art-76/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-76/par-2 - art-77/par-2: 前条第二項 → 健康保険法 第七十六条第二項 (Article 76, paragraph (2)), art-76/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/art-76/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-76/par-2 - art-77/par-3: 前項 → 健康保険法 第七十七条第二項 (Article 77, paragraph (2)), art-77/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/art-77/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-77/par-2 - art-77/par-3: 第百五十条の二第一項 → 健康保険法 第百五十条の二第一項 (Article 150-2, paragraph (1)), art-150-2/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/art-150-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-150-2/par-1 - art-77/par-3: 第百五十条の三 → 健康保険法 第百五十条の三 (Article 150-3), art-150-3 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/art-150-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-150-3 ## Cited by 4 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 健康保険法 第七十七条第三項（療養の給付に要する費用の額の定めに関する厚生労働大臣の調査） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/art-77/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-77/par-3 - 健康保険法 第八十六条第四項（保険外併用療養費） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/art-86/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-86/par-4 - 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 第百五十条の九第一項（基盤機構等への委託） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/art-150-9/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-150-9/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 - claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch health-insurance-act-20261010T183826-002, translated 2026-10-11 - This site's parser, version 189 — 健康保険法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-10