# 国民健康保険法 / National Health Insurance Act — 第百十六条の二 (Article 116-2) - 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: 第百十六条の二 (Article 116-2)（病院等に入院、入所又は入居中の被保険者の特例） — address `art-116-2` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/national-health-insurance-act/art-116-2 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/333AC0000000192/art-116-2 - 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. --- ### 第百十六条の二（病院等に入院、入所又は入居中の被保険者の特例） — (Special Provisions for Insured Persons Hospitalized or Admitted to Hospital or During a Hospital Stay, etc.) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-116-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/national-health-insurance-act/art-116-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/333AC0000000192/art-116-2 **第一項** 次の各号に掲げる入院、入所又は入居（以下この条において「入院等」という。）をしたことにより、当該各号に規定する病院、診療所又は施設（以下この条において「病院等」という。）の所在する場所に住所を変更したと認められる被保険者であつて、当該病院等に入院等をした際他の市町村（当該病院等が所在する市町村以外の市町村をいう。）の区域内に住所を有していたと認められるものは、この法律の適用については、当該他の市町村の区域内に住所を有するものとみなす。ただし、二以上の病院等に継続して入院等をしている被保険者であつて、現に入院等をしている病院等（以下この条において「現入院病院等」という。）に入院等をする直前に入院等をしていた病院等（以下この項において「直前入院病院等」という。）及び現入院病院等のそれぞれに入院等をしたことにより直前入院病院等及び現入院病院等のそれぞれの所在する場所に順次住所を変更したと認められるもの（次項において「特定継続入院等被保険者」という。）については、この限りでない。 art-116-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/national-health-insurance-act/art-116-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/333AC0000000192/art-116-2/par-1 An insured person who is found to have changed domicile, as a result of the hospitalization, admission or residence listed in the following items (hereinafter referred to as "hospitalization, etc." in this Article), to the location of the hospital, clinic or institution prescribed in those items (hereinafter referred to as "hospital, etc." in this Article), and who is found to have been domiciled within the area of another Municipality (meaning a Municipality other than the Municipality in which that hospital, etc. is located) when hospitalized, etc. in that hospital, etc., is deemed, for the purpose of the application of this Act, to be domiciled within the area of the other Municipality; provided, however, that this does not apply to an insured person who has been hospitalized, etc. continuously in two or more hospitals, etc. and who is found to have changed domicile sequentially to the location of the hospital, etc. in which the person was hospitalized, etc. immediately before being hospitalized, etc. in the hospital, etc. in which the person is currently hospitalized, etc. (hereinafter referred to as the "current hospital, etc." in this Article) (hereinafter referred to as the "last hospital, etc." in this paragraph) and then to that of the current hospital, etc., as a result of being hospitalized, etc. in each of the last hospital, etc. and the current hospital, etc. (referred to as a "specified continuously hospitalized insured person" in the following paragraph). machine translation, not official **一** 病院又は診療所への入院 art-116-2/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/national-health-insurance-act/art-116-2/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/333AC0000000192/art-116-2/par-1/item-1 hospitalization or admission to a clinic; Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **二** 児童福祉法（昭和二十二年法律第百六十四号）第七条第一項に規定する児童福祉施設への入所（同法第二十七条第一項第三号又は同法第二十七条の二の規定による入所措置がとられた場合に限る。） art-116-2/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/national-health-insurance-act/art-116-2/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/333AC0000000192/art-116-2/par-1/item-2 admission to a child welfare institution as set forth in Article 7, paragraph (1) of the Child Welfare Act (Act No. 164 of 1947) (limited to cases where admission measures are taken pursuant to the provisions of Article 27, paragraph (1), item (iii) or Article 27-2 of the same Act); Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **三** 障害者の日常生活及び社会生活を総合的に支援するための法律（平成十七年法律第百二十三号）第五条第十一項に規定する障害者支援施設又は同条第一項の主務省令で定める施設への入所 art-116-2/par-1/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/national-health-insurance-act/art-116-2/par-1/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/333AC0000000192/art-116-2/par-1/item-3 admission to a support facility for persons with disabilities prescribed in Article 5, paragraph (11) of the Act on Providing Comprehensive Support for the Daily Life and Life in Society of Persons with Disabilities (Act No. 123 of 2005) or a facility specified by order of the competent ministry prescribed in paragraph (1) of that Article; machine translation, not official **四** 独立行政法人国立重度知的障害者総合施設のぞみの園法（平成十四年法律第百六十七号）第十一条第一号の規定により独立行政法人国立重度知的障害者総合施設のぞみの園の設置する施設への入所 art-116-2/par-1/item-4 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/national-health-insurance-act/art-116-2/par-1/item-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/333AC0000000192/art-116-2/par-1/item-4 admission to the facilities established by the Nozominosono National Center for Persons with Severe Intellectual Disabilities Incorporated Administrative Agency, pursuant to the provisions of Article 11, item (i) of the Act for the Nozominosono National Center for Persons with Severe Intellectual Disabilities Incorporated Administrative Agency (Act No. 167 of 2002); Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **五** 老人福祉法（昭和三十八年法律第百三十三号）第二十条の四又は第二十条の五に規定する養護老人ホーム又は特別養護老人ホームへの入所（同法第十一条第一項第一号又は第二号の規定による入所措置がとられた場合に限る。） art-116-2/par-1/item-5 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/national-health-insurance-act/art-116-2/par-1/item-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/333AC0000000192/art-116-2/par-1/item-5 admission to a nursing home for the elderly or an intensive care home for the elderly as set forth in Article 20-4 or Article 20-5, respectively, of the Public Aid for the Aged Act (Act No. 133 of 1963) (limited to cases where admission measures are taken pursuant to the provisions of Article 11, paragraph (1), item (i) or (ii) of the same Act); Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **六** 介護保険法第八条第十一項に規定する特定施設への入居又は同条第二十五項に規定する介護保険施設への入所 art-116-2/par-1/item-6 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/national-health-insurance-act/art-116-2/par-1/item-6 · https://japanlaw.org/l/333AC0000000192/art-116-2/par-1/item-6 residence in a specified facility prescribed in Article 8, paragraph (11) of the Long-Term Care Insurance Act or admission to a long-term care insurance facility prescribed in paragraph (25) of that Article. machine translation, not official **第二項** 特定継続入院等被保険者のうち、次の各号に掲げるものは、この法律の適用については、当該各号に定める市町村の区域内に住所を有するものとみなす。 art-116-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/national-health-insurance-act/art-116-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/333AC0000000192/art-116-2/par-2 Among specified continuously hospitalized insured persons, those listed in the following items are deemed, for the purpose of the application of this Act, to be domiciled within the area of the Municipality specified in the relevant item. machine translation, not official **一** 継続して入院等をしている二以上の病院等のそれぞれに入院等をすることによりそれぞれの病院等の所在する場所に順次住所を変更したと認められる被保険者であつて、当該二以上の病院等のうち最初の病院等に入院等をした際他の市町村（現入院病院等が所在する市町村以外の市町村をいう。）の区域内に住所を有していたと認められるもの　当該他の市町村 art-116-2/par-2/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/national-health-insurance-act/art-116-2/par-2/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/333AC0000000192/art-116-2/par-2/item-1 an insured person whose domicile is, due to the fact that said person was Hospitalized, etc. in two or more Hospitals, etc. continuously, found to have been sequentially changed to the locations of the respective Hospitals, etc. and who is found to have been domiciled in the area of another Municipality (meaning any Municipality other than that in which the Current Hospital, etc. is located) at the time when said person was Hospitalized, etc. in the first of such two or more Hospitals, etc.: said other Municipality; Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **二** 継続して入院等をしている二以上の病院等のうち一の病院等から継続して他の病院等に入院等をすること（以下この号において「継続入院等」という。）により当該一の病院等の所在する場所以外の場所から当該他の病院等の所在する場所への住所の変更（以下この号において「特定住所変更」という。）を行つたと認められる被保険者であつて、最後に行つた特定住所変更に係る継続入院等の際他の市町村（現入院病院等が所在する市町村以外の市町村をいう。）の区域内に住所を有していたと認められるもの　当該他の市町村 art-116-2/par-2/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/national-health-insurance-act/art-116-2/par-2/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/333AC0000000192/art-116-2/par-2/item-2 an insured person whose domicile is, in association with the fact that said person was Hospitalized, etc. in one of the two or more Hospitals, etc. in which said person has been continuously hospitalized into another Hospital, etc. with no break (hereinafter referred to as "Continuous Hospitalization, etc." in this item), found to have been changed from a place other than the location of said Hospital, etc. to the location of said other Hospital, etc. (hereinafter referred to as "Specified Change of Domicile" in this item) and who is found to have domiciled in the area of another Municipality (meaning any Municipality other than that in which the Current Hospital, etc. is located) at the time of the most recent Specified Change of Domicile: said another Municipality. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第三項** 前二項の規定の適用を受ける被保険者が入院等をしている病院等は、当該病院等の所在する市町村及び前二項の規定によりその区域内に当該被保険者が住所を有するものとみなされた市町村に、必要な協力をしなければならない。 art-116-2/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/national-health-insurance-act/art-116-2/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/333AC0000000192/art-116-2/par-3 A hospital, etc. in which an insured person to whom the provisions of the preceding two paragraphs apply is under hospitalization, etc. must provide necessary cooperation to the Municipality in which such hospital, etc. is located and the Municipality within the area of which that insured person is deemed, pursuant to the provisions of the preceding two paragraphs, to be domiciled. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - art-116-2/par-1: この条 → 国民健康保険法 第百十六条の二 (Article 116-2), art-116-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/national-health-insurance-act/art-116-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/333AC0000000192/art-116-2 - art-116-2/par-1: この項 → 国民健康保険法 第百十六条の二第一項 (Article 116-2, paragraph (1)), art-116-2/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/national-health-insurance-act/art-116-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/333AC0000000192/art-116-2/par-1 - art-116-2/par-1: 次項 → 国民健康保険法 第百十六条の二第二項 (Article 116-2, paragraph (2)), art-116-2/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/national-health-insurance-act/art-116-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/333AC0000000192/art-116-2/par-2 - art-116-2/par-1/item-2: 児童福祉法（昭和二十二年法律第百六十四号）第七条第一項 → e-Gov law 322AC0000000164, 第七条第一項 (Article 7, paragraph (1)), art-7/par-1 — not held in this collection - art-116-2/par-1/item-2: 同法第二十七条第一項第三号 → e-Gov law 322AC0000000164, 第二十七条第一項第三号 (Article 27, paragraph (1), item (iii)), art-27/par-1/item-3 — not held in this collection - art-116-2/par-1/item-2: 同法第二十七条の二 → e-Gov law 322AC0000000164, 第二十七条の二 (Article 27-2), art-27-2 — not held in this collection - art-116-2/par-1/item-3: 障害者の日常生活及び社会生活を総合的に支援するための法律（平成十七年法律第百二十三号）第五条第十一項 → e-Gov law 417AC0000000123, 第五条第十一項 (Article 5, paragraph (11)), art-5/par-11 — not held in this collection - art-116-2/par-1/item-3: 同条第一項 → e-Gov law 417AC0000000123, 第五条第一項 (Article 5, paragraph (1)), art-5/par-1 — not held in this collection - art-116-2/par-1/item-4: 独立行政法人国立重度知的障害者総合施設のぞみの園法（平成十四年法律第百六十七号）第十一条第一号 → e-Gov law 414AC0000000167, 第十一条第一項第一号 (Article 11, paragraph (1), item (i)), art-11/par-1/item-1 — not held in this collection - art-116-2/par-1/item-5: 老人福祉法（昭和三十八年法律第百三十三号）第二十条の四 → e-Gov law 338AC0000000133, 第二十条の四 (Article 20-4), art-20-4 — not held in this collection - art-116-2/par-1/item-5: 第二十条の五 → e-Gov law 338AC0000000133, 第二十条の五 (Article 20-5), art-20-5 — not held in this collection - art-116-2/par-1/item-5: 同法第十一条第一項第一号 → e-Gov law 338AC0000000133, 第十一条第一項第一号 (Article 11, paragraph (1), item (i)), art-11/par-1/item-1 — not held in this collection - art-116-2/par-1/item-5: 第二号 → e-Gov law 338AC0000000133, 第十一条第一項第二号 (Article 11, paragraph (1), item (ii)), art-11/par-1/item-2 — not held in this collection - art-116-2/par-1/item-6: 介護保険法第八条第十一項 → 介護保険法 第八条第十一項 (Article 8, paragraph (11)), art-8/par-11 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-8/par-11 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-8/par-11 - art-116-2/par-1/item-6: 同条第二十五項 → 介護保険法 第八条第二十五項 (Article 8, paragraph (25)), art-8/par-25 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-8/par-25 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-8/par-25 - art-116-2/par-2/item-2: この号 → 国民健康保険法 第百十六条の二第二項第二号 (Article 116-2, paragraph (2), item (ii)), art-116-2/par-2/item-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/national-health-insurance-act/art-116-2/par-2/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/333AC0000000192/art-116-2/par-2/item-2 - art-116-2/par-3: 前二項 → 国民健康保険法 第百十六条の二第一項 (Article 116-2, paragraph (1)), art-116-2/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/national-health-insurance-act/art-116-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/333AC0000000192/art-116-2/par-1 - art-116-2/par-3: 前二項 → 国民健康保険法 第百十六条の二第二項 (Article 116-2, paragraph (2)), art-116-2/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/national-health-insurance-act/art-116-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/333AC0000000192/art-116-2/par-2 ## Cited by 10 provisions cite this one. 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