Health insurance members must undertake certain procedures such as to have a health insurance card reissued or to receive benefits when a child is born. Described below are the required procedures and application methods for such cases:
Health insurance card procedures
If you lose your health insurance card
Information on what to do if you lose or damage your health insurance card
Marriage
Information on what to do if you marry
Family membership
Information on what to do to add family members
After you leave your employer
Information on what to do after you leave your employer
When you are exempt from the long-term care insurance program
Information on what to be exempt from the long-term care insurance program
Benefit procedures
Childbirth
Information on what to do after a child is born
If you take time off from work for childbirth
Information on mandatory procedures before a female insured person takes time off from work for childbirth
Death
Information on what to do if the insured person or dependent has died
If you paid the entire medical care cost up front
Information on procedures for benefits that repay medical care costs you have paid up front
If you underwent acupuncture, moxibustion, massage, or shiatsu with an insurance doctor's approval
Information on what to do if you underwent acupuncture, moxibustion, massage, or shiatsu with an insurance doctor's approval
If you take time off from work due to sickness
Information on what to do to obtain benefits when you are unable to earn a salary or other income while taking time off from work due to a nonoccupational illness or injury
If you become sick or are injured due to the actions of another party
Information on what to do if you have been injured due to the actions of another party, as in a traffic accident or due to contact with another person during physical exercise
When you incur high medical care costs
Information on what to do when you incur high medical care costs