Medical insurance system

The japanese medical insurance system

You do not understand when when you take care in the hospital.When being, for the sake of, it be sure will enter to medical insurance

Getting married, when being decided that the foreign spouse lives in Japan, when it does the sickness and the wound that first it is worry, it is thing, don’t you think?.In case of the foreigner who is not the Japanese nationality, it probably is to be able to receive some kind of medical guarantee?

As for the Japanese medical insurance separately there are 2 types largely.First it will keep seeing from there.

Person insurance for suffering

With the insurance where the person who has been served at the company and the like joins ahead working, there is no restriction regarding nationality.When you are employed at the company, it comes to the point of joining to insurance mandatorily, premium is paid automatically from salary of every month.

The employee of enterprise join to the person insurance for suffering, “health insurance”, the crew join “seamen’s insurance”, the government employee and the teacher etc of the private school join is “various mutual aid”.

Furthermore, government managing health insurance (the person for suffering of small and medium-sized business and the like which does not have union the object) with union managing health insurance (the person for suffering of big business where health insurance union is established the object) is in “health insurance”.
In addition, national public service personnel mutual aid insurance, local government employee mutual aid union, there is private school school personnel mutual aid in “various mutual aid”.

if you want to work for the company came to japan, such as foreign spouse, since you will be automatically subscribe to this employee’s health insurance, it is safe, it will not even take time to go to their own procedures.
if the wife is a foreigner to become full-time homemaker, you like to join as a dependent on your employee’s health insurance.

national health insurance

people who are unable to join the employee’s health insurance is, enter the national health insurance. are those operated by municipalities and the insurer primarily, it is intended for, such as self-employed and agricultural workers, such as store management. 1subscribers have also observed that all foreigners living in more than a year.

requirements for foreigners can join, alien registration (the entry into japan90days or more foreigners to stay, bureaucratic procedures to be sure in the municipality of residence) have carried out, yet1it is not a short-term residents of less than a year. 1proof that at least a year to obtain a residence permit, column deadline and residence status of residence of alien registration card, make sure in the description on the passport and.

person or a short stay in a tourist visa, such as, people have a work-out-of-status is overstaying, at present will not be able to join the national health insurance.
also, people that do not qualify by other laws and regulations (diplomat, such as military personnel of u.s. forces in japan) some.

the method of procedure
bring your alien registration card, go to the office of national health insurance was carried out alien registration office, you carried out the enrollment procedures.

alien registration card is, from the application procedures2~3are supposed to go to the office to take weeks. go to the point of contact when you receive health insurance at his feet, that’s where you can get the proceedings of the national health insurance.
it should be noted, if you have dependents such as children are to live together, you will want to join together.

heisei15from fiscal year, insurance card and then format the card, even in the same family of household1people1now can have piece of health insurance card.

foreign medical insurance system

if you are planning to marry are living abroad, let’s examine a lot about the country’s first medical insurance. after travel, conditions that can be insured is so equipped, it is recommended to the procedure as soon as possible.

medical insurance system vary depending on the country of spouseis, you can check in the following ways:.

listen to foreign spouses
is the quickest way. because i think that some sort of medical insurance person and their families, nephew and i will get to examine the conditions such as foreign spouses.

contact the embassy or consulate of that country in japan
there is also mentioned in the website of the embassy that there is, let’s check in advance.

using the internet, from wikipedia, the free experience of people living in the local

examine and living overseas guidebook
has been published many guidebooks to travel from the main residence information. future, these guide books of the country to live you get the, 1might be a good idea to purchase books.

to collect information in the media of being published in the local japanese
if the japanese and japanese americans are living in the city or town where many residents, free paper of japanese and japanese newspaper has been published in most local. it may be the health care system and health insurance articles to be published in them, let’s look at each issue carefully.
also, there is also this area useful life, such as yellow pages has been issued, it’s a good idea to obtain.

payment of medical expenses overseas in japan’s health insurance

if you are receiving a treatment of illness or injury abroad, such as social insurance or insured national health insurance, medical expenses that, if the application after returning home, you will receive benefits as medical expenses overseas. this system of provision for medical costs for overseas this is called.

if you use this system, the corner at his own expense in the case of japan the same level of medical expenses in a foreign country. as a general rule, payment amount is determined as the standard is because health care costs in japan.

but, this system of provision for medical costs for overseas is, permanent resident overseas are not subject to. when you move to a foreign country and have been married, who has made a notification of moving out overseas, you lost the qualification so it is no longer a national health insurance at that point.

simply, after marriage, for example, if you plan to return temporarily to japan, notification of moving out until then without an, alternatively, you may be able to remain in the national health insurance. of course, does not become tax residents in between insurance premiums and must be paid, in such a case does not immediately put into medical insurance in the destination country of residence, put law against it may be safe.

method of application
one o’clock in person to pay the full amount of medical expenses in a foreign country, after returning to, you must apply to your local municipal office to submit the prescribed documents. billing period, been paid from the day following the date that the cost of treatment2years.

it should be noted, range of medical expenses to be paid is, are limited to those recognized as medical insurance in japan. dental treatment, but has become a target, medical practice has not been covered by insurance in the country (organ transplantation, such as cosmetic surgery) is not subject to the benefits, please be careful.

what you need to apply for
(1) application form paid medical expenses
(2) medical packing list (treatment can prove the contents of documents)
(3) specification receipt
(4) original receipt
(5) insurance card
(6) passport of the person who received the treatment
(7) what bank account under the name of head of household is understood
(8) seal of head of household

(1) ~ (3) there are fill in the prescribed form, you can dine under load from the site. (2) (3) get the document is filled out in foreign medical institutions who were treated. in that case, but you will also need a translation, you may want to translate their own (describes the name and address of the translator) .

national health insurance association
for medical expenses abroad

(1) ~ (3) there are fill in the prescribed form, you can dine under load from the site. (2) (3) is to get documents to fill in medical institutions overseas. in that case, but you will also need a translation, you may want to translate their own (describes the name and address of the translator) .

national health insurance association
for medical expenses abroad