# 国民健康保険法 / National Health Insurance Act — 第五十四条の四 (Article 54-4) - 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: 第五十四条の四 (Article 54-4)（移送費） — address `art-54-4` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/national-health-insurance-act/art-54-4 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/333AC0000000192/art-54-4 - 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. --- ### 第五十四条の四（移送費） — (Transport Expenses) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-54-4 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/national-health-insurance-act/art-54-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/333AC0000000192/art-54-4 **第一項** 市町村及び組合は、被保険者が療養の給付（保険外併用療養費に係る療養及び特別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、当該被保険者の属する世帯の世帯主又は組合員に対し、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額を支給する。 art-54-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/national-health-insurance-act/art-54-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/333AC0000000192/art-54-4/par-1 When an insured person has been transported to a hospital or clinic in order to receive benefits for medical treatment (including medical treatment covered by medical expenses combined with treatment outside insurance coverage and medical treatment covered by special medical expenses), Municipalities and Societies shall pay, as transport expenses, an amount calculated as provided by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare to the Householder or Society member of the household to which said insured person belongs. machine translation, not official **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市町村又は組合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-54-4/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/national-health-insurance-act/art-54-4/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/333AC0000000192/art-54-4/par-2 The transport expenses set forth in the preceding paragraph shall be paid only if a Municipality or Society finds it necessary, as provided by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - art-54-4/par-2: 前項 → 国民健康保険法 第五十四条の四第一項 (Article 54-4, paragraph (1)), art-54-4/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/national-health-insurance-act/art-54-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/333AC0000000192/art-54-4/par-1 ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 国民健康保険法 第五十四条の四第二項（移送費） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/national-health-insurance-act/art-54-4/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/333AC0000000192/art-54-4/par-2 - 国民健康保険法 第六十六条の二第一項（市町村による保険給付に係る事務の範囲） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/national-health-insurance-act/art-66-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/333AC0000000192/art-66-2/par-1 --- ## 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-20261017T183826-003, 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