# 国民健康保険法 / National Health Insurance Act — 第百十三条の四 (Article 113-4)
- Law: 国民健康保険法 (National Health Insurance Act), 昭和三十三年法律第百九十二号
- English title "National 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: 第百十三条の四 (Article 113-4)（関係者の連携及び協力） — address `art-113-4`
- Text in force since: 2026-10-01
- URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/national-health-insurance-act/art-113-4
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### 第百十三条の四（関係者の連携及び協力） — Collaboration and Cooperation of Persons Involved
caption: machine translation, not official
art-113-4 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/national-health-insurance-act/art-113-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/333AC0000000192/art-113-4
**第一項** 国、都道府県、市町村及び組合並びに保険医療機関等その他の関係者は、電子資格確認の仕組みの導入その他手続における情報通信の技術の利用の推進により、医療保険各法等（高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律第七条第一項に規定する医療保険各法及び高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律をいう。）その他医療に関する給付を定める法令の規定により行われる事務が円滑に実施されるよう、相互に連携を図りながら協力するものとする。
art-113-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/national-health-insurance-act/art-113-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/333AC0000000192/art-113-4/par-1
The national government, prefectures, Municipalities and Societies, and health insurance-covered medical institutions, etc. and other persons involved are to cooperate with each other while collaborating mutually, through the introduction of an electronic eligibility confirmation mechanism and other promotion of the use of information and communications technology in procedures, so that affairs carried out under the provisions of the respective Acts on medical insurance, etc. (meaning the respective Acts on medical insurance prescribed in Article 7, paragraph (1) of the Act on Assurance of Medical Care for Elderly People and the Act on Assurance of Medical Care for Elderly People) and other laws and regulations that provide for benefits relating to medical care are implemented smoothly.
machine translation, not official
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## Cites
- art-113-4/par-1: 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律第七条第一項 → 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 第七条第一項 (Article 7, paragraph (1)), art-7/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/art-7/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-7/par-1
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## Sources
- e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 国民健康保険法 — the text in force from 2026-10-01 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/333AC0000000192/20261001_507AC0000000087), retrieved 2026-10-17
- Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — National Health Insurance Act — Ministry of Justice translation (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/2453/tb), retrieved 2026-10-17
- claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch national-health-insurance-act-20261017T183826-010, translated 2026-10-18
- This site's parser, version 209 — 国民健康保険法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-17