# 国民健康保険法 / National Health Insurance Act — 第八十九条 (Article 89) - 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: 第八十九条 (Article 89)（審査委員会の権限） — address `art-89` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/national-health-insurance-act/art-89 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/333AC0000000192/art-89 - 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. --- ### 第八十九条（審査委員会の権限） — (Authority of the Review Committee) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-89 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/national-health-insurance-act/art-89 · https://japanlaw.org/l/333AC0000000192/art-89 **第一項** 審査委員会は、診療報酬請求書の審査を行うため必要があると認めるときは、都道府県知事の承認を得て、当該保険医療機関等若しくは指定訪問看護の事業を行う事業所に対して、報告若しくは診療録その他の帳簿書類の提出若しくは提示を求め、又は当該保険医療機関等の開設者若しくは管理者、指定訪問看護事業者若しくは当該保険医療機関等において療養を担当する保険医若しくは保険薬剤師に対して、出頭若しくは説明を求めることができる。 art-89/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/national-health-insurance-act/art-89/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/333AC0000000192/art-89/par-1 When the Review Committee finds it necessary in order to review medical bills, it may, upon the approval of the prefectural governor, request the relevant Health Insurance-Covered Medical Institution, etc. or the relevant office providing designated home-nursing to make a report or submit or present medical records or other books and documents, or may request any of the establishers or administrators of such Health Insurance-Covered Medical Institution, etc., the designated home-nursing provider, or any of the health insurance-covered physicians or health insurance-covered pharmacists who are in charge of medical treatment at such Health Insurance-Covered Medical Institution, etc. to appear or provide an explanation. Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "When the Review Committee finds it necessary in order to review medical bills, it may, upon the approval of the prefectural governor, request the relevant Health Insurance-Covered Medical Institution, etc. or the relevant office providing designated home-nursing to make a report or submit or present medical records or other the books and other documents, or may request any of the establishers or managers of such Health Insurance-Covered Medical Institution, etc., the designated home-nursing provider, or any of the health insurance-covered physicians or health insurance-covered pharmacists who are in charge of medical treatment at such Health Insurance-Covered Medical Institution, etc. to appear or provide an explanation." — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/2453/tb **第二項** 連合会は、前項の規定により審査委員会に出頭した者に対し、旅費、日当及び宿泊料を支給しなければならない。ただし、当該保険医療機関等又は指定訪問看護の事業を行う事業所が提出した診療報酬請求書又は診療録その他の帳簿書類の記載が不備又は不当であつたため出頭を求められて出頭した者に対しては、この限りでない。 art-89/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/national-health-insurance-act/art-89/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/333AC0000000192/art-89/par-2 The Federation must pay travel expenses, daily expenses and accommodation expenses to any person who appeared at the Review Committee pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph; provided, however, that this shall not apply to any person who appeared in response to a request for appearance issued due to defective or misleading entries in medical bills or medical records or other books and documents submitted by the relevant Health Insurance-Covered Medical Institution, etc. or the relevant office providing designated home-nursing. Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "Federation must pay travel expenses, daily expenses and accommodation expenses to any person who appeared at the Review Committee pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph; provided, however, that this shall not apply to any person who appeared in response to a request for appearance issued due to defective or misleading entries in medical bills or medical records or other the books and other documents submitted by the relevant Health Insurance-Covered Medical Institution, etc. or the relevant office providing designated home-nursing." — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/2453/tb --- ## Cites - art-89/par-2: 前項 → 国民健康保険法 第八十九条第一項 (Article 89, paragraph (1)), art-89/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/national-health-insurance-act/art-89/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/333AC0000000192/art-89/par-1 ## Cited by 4 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 国民健康保険法 第八十九条第二項（審査委員会の権限） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/national-health-insurance-act/art-89/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/333AC0000000192/art-89/par-2 - 国民健康保険法 第百十九条の二第一項（事務の区分） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/national-health-insurance-act/art-119-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/333AC0000000192/art-119-2/par-1 - 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 第百二十七条第一項（国民健康保険法の準用） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/art-127/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-127/par-1 - 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 第百六十五条第一項（事務の区分） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/art-165/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-165/par-1 --- ## Sources - claude-opus-5-5 — Slips in the Ministry of Justice's English of the National Health Insurance Act, corrected, written 2026-10-18 - 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 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — National Health Insurance Act (国民健康保険法), Article 89, paragraph (1) — the Ministry of Justice's English as printed (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/2453/tb), retrieved 2026-10-17 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — National Health Insurance Act (国民健康保険法), Article 89, paragraph (2) — the Ministry of Justice's English as printed (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/2453/tb), retrieved 2026-10-17 - This site's parser, version 209 — 国民健康保険法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-17