# 国民健康保険法 / National Health Insurance Act — 第七十二条の五 (Article 72-5) - 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: 第七十二条の五 (Article 72-5)（特定健康診査等に要する費用の負担） — address `art-72-5` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/national-health-insurance-act/art-72-5 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/333AC0000000192/art-72-5 - 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. --- ### 第七十二条の五（特定健康診査等に要する費用の負担） — Sharing of Costs Required for Specified Health Checkups, etc. caption: machine translation, not official art-72-5 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/national-health-insurance-act/art-72-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/333AC0000000192/art-72-5 **第一項** 国は、政令で定めるところにより、都道府県に対し、当該都道府県内の市町村による高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律第二十条の規定による特定健康診査（第八十二条第二項において単に「特定健康診査」という。）及び同法第二十四条の規定による特定保健指導（第八十二条第一項及び第八十六条において「特定健康診査等」という。）に要する費用のうち政令で定めるもの（次項において「特定健康診査等費用額」という。）の三分の一に相当する額を負担する。 art-72-5/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/national-health-insurance-act/art-72-5/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/333AC0000000192/art-72-5/par-1 The national government shall, pursuant to Cabinet Order provisions, bear, for each prefecture, an amount equal to one-third of the costs specified by Cabinet Order out of the costs required for the specified health checkups pursuant to the provisions of Article 20 of the Act on Assurance of Medical Care for Elderly People (referred to simply as "specified health checkup" in Article 82, paragraph (2)) and the specified health guidance pursuant to the provisions of Article 24 of that Act (referred to as "specified health checkup, etc." in Article 82, paragraph (1) and Article 86) conducted by the Municipalities within that prefecture (referred to as the "amount of costs of specified health checkups, etc." in the following paragraph). machine translation, not official **第二項** 都道府県は、政令で定めるところにより、一般会計から、特定健康診査等費用額の三分の一に相当する額を当該都道府県の国民健康保険に関する特別会計に繰り入れなければならない。 art-72-5/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/national-health-insurance-act/art-72-5/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/333AC0000000192/art-72-5/par-2 Each prefecture must, pursuant to Cabinet Order provisions, transfer from its general fund to the special account of that prefecture for its national health insurance program an amount equal to one-third of the amount of costs of specified health checkups, etc. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - art-72-5/par-1: 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律第二十条 → 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 第二十条 (Article 20), art-20 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/art-20 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-20 - art-72-5/par-1: 第八十二条第二項 → 国民健康保険法 第八十二条第二項 (Article 82, paragraph (2)), art-82/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/national-health-insurance-act/art-82/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/333AC0000000192/art-82/par-2 - art-72-5/par-1: 同法第二十四条 → 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 第二十四条 (Article 24), art-24 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/art-24 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-24 - art-72-5/par-1: 第八十二条第一項 → 国民健康保険法 第八十二条第一項 (Article 82, paragraph (1)), art-82/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/national-health-insurance-act/art-82/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/333AC0000000192/art-82/par-1 - art-72-5/par-1: 第八十六条 → 国民健康保険法 第八十六条 (Article 86), art-86 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/national-health-insurance-act/art-86 · https://japanlaw.org/l/333AC0000000192/art-86 - art-72-5/par-1: 次項 → 国民健康保険法 第七十二条の五第二項 (Article 72-5, paragraph (2)), art-72-5/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/national-health-insurance-act/art-72-5/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/333AC0000000192/art-72-5/par-2 ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 国民健康保険法 第七十二条の五第一項（特定健康診査等に要する費用の負担） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/national-health-insurance-act/art-72-5/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/333AC0000000192/art-72-5/par-1 - 国民健康保険法 第七十四条第一項（国の補助） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/national-health-insurance-act/art-74/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/333AC0000000192/art-74/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-20261017T183826-005, 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