# 健康保険法 / Health Insurance Act — 第九十七条 (Article 97) - 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: 第九十七条 (Article 97) — address `art-97` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/art-97 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-97 - 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. --- ### 第九十七条 art-97 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/art-97 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-97 **第一項** 被保険者が療養の給付（保険外併用療養費に係る療養を含む。）を受けるため、病院又は診療所に移送されたときは、移送費として、厚生労働省令で定めるところにより算定した金額を支給する。 art-97/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/art-97/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-97/par-1 When an insured person has been transported to a hospital or clinic in order to receive medical treatment (including medical treatment covered by medical expenses combined with treatment outside insurance coverage), the insurer pays, as transport expenses, an amount calculated pursuant to Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare to the insured person. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 前項の移送費は、厚生労働省令で定めるところにより、保険者が必要であると認める場合に限り、支給するものとする。 art-97/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/art-97/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-97/par-2 The transport expenses referred to in the preceding paragraph are to be paid only if the insurer finds it necessary pursuant to Order of Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-97/par-2: 前項 → 健康保険法 第九十七条第一項 (Article 97, paragraph (1)), art-97/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/art-97/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-97/par-1 ## Cited by 6 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 健康保険法 第九十七条第二項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/art-97/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-97/par-2 - 健康保険法 第百十二条第一項（家族移送費） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/art-112/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-112/par-1 - 健康保険法 第百十二条第二項（家族移送費） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/art-112/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-112/par-2 - 健康保険法 第百三十四条第一項（移送費） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/art-134/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-134/par-1 - 健康保険法 第百四十二条第一項（家族移送費） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/art-142/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-142/par-1 - 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