# 健康保険法 / Health Insurance Act — 第七十八条 (Article 78) - 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: 第七十八条 (Article 78)（保険医療機関又は保険薬局の報告等） — address `art-78` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/art-78 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-78 - 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. --- ### 第七十八条（保険医療機関又は保険薬局の報告等） — (Reports by Medical Institutions Providing Services Covered by Health Insurance or Pharmacies Providing Services Covered by Health Insurance) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-78 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/art-78 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-78 **第一項** 厚生労働大臣は、療養の給付に関して必要があると認めるときは、保険医療機関若しくは保険薬局若しくは保険医療機関若しくは保険薬局の開設者若しくは管理者、保険医、保険薬剤師その他の従業者であった者（以下この項において「開設者であった者等」という。）に対し報告若しくは診療録その他の帳簿書類の提出若しくは提示を命じ、保険医療機関若しくは保険薬局の開設者若しくは管理者、保険医、保険薬剤師その他の従業者（開設者であった者等を含む。）に対し出頭を求め、又は当該職員に関係者に対して質問させ、若しくは保険医療機関若しくは保険薬局について設備若しくは診療録、帳簿書類その他の物件を検査させることができる。 art-78/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/art-78/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-78/par-1 When the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare finds it necessary in relation to benefits for medical treatment, the minister or governor may order a medical institution providing services covered by health insurance or pharmacy providing services covered by health insurance, or a person who was an establisher or manager, physician who provided health insurance treatment, pharmacist who filled health insurance prescriptions, or another employee of a medical institution providing services covered by health insurance or pharmacy providing services covered by health insurance (hereinafter referred to as "former establisher, etc." in this paragraph) to make a report or submit or present medical records or other books and other documents, may request an establisher, manager, physician providing health insurance treatment, pharmacist filling health insurance prescriptions or another employee of a medical institution or pharmacy providing services covered by health insurance (including former establishers, etc.) to appear, or may have an official question persons involved or inspect any equipment or medical records, record books and documents or other objects of the medical institution or pharmacy providing services covered by health insurance. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 第七条の三十八第二項及び第七十三条第二項の規定は前項の規定による質問又は検査について、第七条の三十八第三項の規定は前項の規定による権限について準用する。 art-78/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/art-78/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-78/par-2 The provisions of Article 7-38, paragraph (2) and Article 73, paragraph (2) apply mutatis mutandis to questions or inspections pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph, and the provisions of Article 7-38, paragraph (3) apply mutatis mutandis to the authority granted pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-78/par-1: この項 → 健康保険法 第七十八条第一項 (Article 78, paragraph (1)), art-78/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/art-78/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-78/par-1 - art-78/par-2: 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-78/par-2: 第七十三条第二項 → 健康保険法 第七十三条第二項 (Article 73, paragraph (2)), art-73/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/art-73/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-73/par-2 - art-78/par-2: 前項 → 健康保険法 第七十八条第一項 (Article 78, paragraph (1)), art-78/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/art-78/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-78/par-1 - art-78/par-2: 第七条の三十八第三項 → 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 10 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 健康保険法 第七十八条第一項（保険医療機関又は保険薬局の報告等） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/art-78/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-78/par-1 - 健康保険法 第七十八条第二項（保険医療機関又は保険薬局の報告等） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/art-78/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-78/par-2 - 健康保険法 第八十条第一項第五号（保険医療機関又は保険薬局の指定の取消し） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/art-80/par-1/item-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-80/par-1/item-5 - 健康保険法 第八十条第一項第六号（保険医療機関又は保険薬局の指定の取消し） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/art-80/par-1/item-6 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-80/par-1/item-6 - 健康保険法 第八十一条第一項第三号（保険医又は保険薬剤師の登録の取消し） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/art-81/par-1/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-81/par-1/item-3 - 健康保険法 第八十五条第九項（入院時食事療養費） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/art-85/par-9 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-85/par-9 - 健康保険法 第八十五条の二第五項（入院時生活療養費） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/art-85-2/par-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-85-2/par-5 - 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 第百十条第七項（家族療養費） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/art-110/par-7 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-110/par-7 - 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 --- ## 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