Health insurance system
Health Insurance and Health Insurance Societies in Japan
If you catch a cold, you go to the hospital, get checked by a doctor, get the medicines prescribed, and pay. Health insurance is the behind-the-scenes system that supports such everyday activities. The following describes these nuts and bolts of the health insurance system.
List of the health insurance system
About health insurance
Describes the health insurance system and the health insurance societies that run it
Health insurance membership
Describes who can be insured under the health insurance system
Health insurance cards
Use your Myna health insurance card etc. when visiting medical care institutions
- Handling your health insurance card
- If your Individual Number Card is lost or stolen
- Individual Number Card expiration dates
- Eligibility verification certificate, notice of eligibility information
- To enable smooth verification of eligibility using a Myna health insurance card to get medical care
- Indicating whether you intend to be an organ donor
- Elderly benefits cards
- Online verification of eligibility
- The online eligibility verification system brings some changes to health insurance cards
Family membership
Describes matters such as the conditions required to insure family members and applicable income standards
The Society's insurance premiums
Describes the insurance premiums paid by members to fund health insurance programs and benefits
Insurance benefits
Describes the medical care benefits and the amounts of these benefits provided by health insurance
List of insurance benefits
Describes the benefits paid by the Society
Medical care cost information
Describes the medical care costs paid when you visit a hospital for a sickness or injury
After you leave your employer
Describes the medical care insurance available after you leave your employer
Other systems related to health insurance
Describes in detail various systems related to health insurance.