Benefit procedures
Measures are established to reduce the burden of medical care costs paid by members of health insurance when they visit the hospital for a cold or are hospitalized for childbirth.
Describes benefits available if you become sick or are injured
Describes benefits available when you incur high medical care costs
- High-Cost Medical Care Benefits
- If you want to make sure the amount you pay at the reception desk of the hospital will not exceed the Cost-Sharing Maximum Amounts
- How High-Cost Medical Care Benefits are calculated
- If your copayment is reduced still further
- If copayments for medical care and long-term care are high
Describes benefits available if you paid the entire medical care cost up front
- If you paid 100% of the cost because you could not present proof of your health insurance eligibility / If you received treatment as a member of the health insurance society you previously joined / If you had prosthetic equipment (e.g., corset) prepared / If you had pediatric prescription eyewear prepared / If you underwent acupuncture, moxibustion, or massage
- If you become sick or are injured overseas
- If you require transportation for emergency hospitalization or transfer to another hospital
Describes benefits available for childbirth
Describes benefits available if you take time off from work for childbirth
Describes benefits available if you take time off from work due to sickness or injury
Describes benefits available in the event of death
What to do if you are injured due to the actions of another party, as in the case of a traffic accident or contact with another person during athletic activities
Describes benefits available if you receive medical care at home
Describes benefits available when you receive medical care which requires payment of the difference
The extent of cases in which you can use health insurance at such clinics is very limited, since a bonesetter's clinic or similar facility is not an insurance medical care facility and the judotherapists who provide such care are not physicians.