# 健康保険法 / Health Insurance Act — 第八条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 8)

- 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: 第八条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 8) — address `suppl-5071-87/art-8`
- Text in force since: 2026-10-01
- URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/suppl-5071-87/art-8
- Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/suppl-5071-87/art-8
- 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.

---

### 第八条
<sup>suppl-5071-87/art-8 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/suppl-5071-87/art-8 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/suppl-5071-87/art-8</sup>

**第一項**  附則第一条第二号に掲げる規定の施行の際現に医療法第七条第一項に規定する臨床研修等修了医師又は臨床研修等修了歯科医師である者（前条の規定の適用を受ける者を除く。）についての第七条の規定による改正後の健康保険法第七十条の二第一項の規定の適用については、同項第二号中「医師法（昭和二十三年法律第二百一号）第十六条の二第一項の規定による臨床研修の修了後に保険医療機関（病院に限る。）において保険医として三年以上診療に従事した経験又は歯科医師法（昭和二十三年法律第二百二号）第十六条の二第一項の規定による臨床研修の修了後に保険医療機関において保険医として三年以上診療」とあるのは、「保険医療機関において保険医として三年以上診療その他管理及び運営に関する業務」とする。
<sup>suppl-5071-87/art-8/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/suppl-5071-87/art-8/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/suppl-5071-87/art-8/par-1</sup>
With regard to the application of the provisions of Article 70-2, paragraph (1) of the Health Insurance Act as amended by the provisions of Article 7 to a person who, at the time of enforcement of the provisions set forth in Article 1, item (ii) of the Supplementary Provisions, is already a physician who has completed clinical training, etc. or a dentist who has completed clinical training, etc. prescribed in Article 7, paragraph (1) of the Medical Care Act (excluding a person to whom the provisions of the preceding Article apply), the phrase "experience of engaging in medical care for three or more years as a physician providing health insurance treatment at a medical institution providing services covered by health insurance (limited to hospitals) after completing clinical training under Article 16-2, paragraph (1) of the Medical Practitioners' Act (Act No. 201 of 1948), or experience of engaging in medical care for three or more years as a physician providing health insurance treatment at a medical institution providing services covered by health insurance after completing clinical training under Article 16-2, paragraph (1) of the Dental Practitioners Act (Act No. 202 of 1948)" in item (ii) of that paragraph is deemed to be replaced with "experience of engaging in medical care and other duties relating to management and operation for three or more years as a physician providing health insurance treatment at a medical institution providing services covered by health insurance".
<sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

---

## Cites
- suppl-5071-87/art-8/par-1: 附則第一条第二号 → 健康保険法 附則第一条第一項第二号 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 1, paragraph (1), item (ii)), suppl-5071-87/art-1/par-1/item-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/suppl-5071-87/art-1/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/suppl-5071-87/art-1/par-1/item-2
- suppl-5071-87/art-8/par-1: 医療法第七条第一項 → e-Gov law 323AC0000000205, 第七条第一項 (Article 7, paragraph (1)), art-7/par-1 — not held in this collection
- suppl-5071-87/art-8/par-1: 前条 → 健康保険法 附則第七条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 7), suppl-5071-87/art-7 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/suppl-5071-87/art-7 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/suppl-5071-87/art-7
- suppl-5071-87/art-8/par-1: 健康保険法第七十条の二第一項 → 健康保険法 第七十条の二第一項 (Article 70-2, paragraph (1)), art-70-2/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/art-70-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-70-2/par-1
- suppl-5071-87/art-8/par-1: 同項第二号 → 健康保険法 第七十条の二第一項第二号 (Article 70-2, paragraph (1), item (ii)), art-70-2/par-1/item-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/art-70-2/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-70-2/par-1/item-2
- suppl-5071-87/art-8/par-1: 医師法（昭和二十三年法律第二百一号）第十六条の二第一項 → 医師法 第十六条の二第一項 (Article 16-2, paragraph (1)), art-16-2/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-practitioners-act/art-16-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000201/art-16-2/par-1
- suppl-5071-87/art-8/par-1: 歯科医師法（昭和二十三年法律第二百二号）第十六条の二第一項 → e-Gov law 323AC0000000202, 第十六条の二第一項 (Article 16-2, paragraph (1)), art-16-2/par-1 — not held in this collection

## Cited by

3 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction.

- 健康保険法 附則第一条第一項第二号（施行期日） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/suppl-5071-87/art-1/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/suppl-5071-87/art-1/par-1/item-2
- 健康保険法 附則第七条第一項（健康保険法の一部改正に伴う経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/suppl-5071-87/art-7/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/suppl-5071-87/art-7/par-1
- 健康保険法 附則第二十四条第一項（政令への委任） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/suppl-5071-87/art-24/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/suppl-5071-87/art-24/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-20261010T183826-043, 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
