# 健康保険法 / Health Insurance Act — 第二十三条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 23) - 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: 第二十三条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 23) — address `suppl-3591-77/art-23` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/suppl-3591-77/art-23 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/suppl-3591-77/art-23 - 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. --- ### 第二十三条 suppl-3591-77/art-23 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/suppl-3591-77/art-23 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/suppl-3591-77/art-23 **第一項** 詐欺その他不正の行為によつて旧保険給付を受けた者からの当該旧保険給付に要した費用の全部又は一部の徴収、当該旧保険給付に関し虚偽の証明又は不正な健康保険印紙のちよう付若しくは消印をした事業主及び保険者に提出されるべき診断書に虚偽の記載をした保険医に対する徴収金を納付すべきことの命令並びに詐欺その他不正の行為によつて旧日雇健保法の規定による療養の給付に関する費用の支払又は旧日雇健保法第十七条第三項（旧日雇健保法第十七条の六において準用する場合を含む。）の規定による支払を受けた旧日雇健保法第十条第五項第一号に掲げる保険医療機関及び保険薬局からのその支払つた額の返還及びその額に百分の十を乗じた額の支払については、なお従前の例による。 suppl-3591-77/art-23/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/suppl-3591-77/art-23/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/suppl-3591-77/art-23/par-1 With regard to the collection, from a person who received former insurance benefits by fraud or other wrongful conduct, of all or part of the expenses required for those former insurance benefits; an order to pay money to be collected, issued to an employer who made a false certification or improperly affixed or canceled health insurance stamps in relation to those former insurance benefits and to a physician providing health insurance treatment who made a false entry in a medical certificate to be submitted to the insurer; and the refund of the amount paid, and the payment of an amount obtained by multiplying that amount by one-tenth, by a medical institution providing services covered by health insurance and a pharmacy providing services covered by health insurance listed in Article 10, paragraph (5), item (i) of the Former Day Laborers Health Insurance Act that received, by fraud or other wrongful conduct, payment of expenses relating to benefits for medical treatment under the provisions of the Former Day Laborers Health Insurance Act or payment under the provisions of Article 17, paragraph (3) of the Former Day Laborers Health Insurance Act (including where applied mutatis mutandis in Article 17-6 of the Former Day Laborers Health Insurance Act), the provisions then in force continue to govern. machine translation, not official --- ## 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-20261010T183826-015, 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