Procedures

Health insurance members must undertake certain procedures in cases such as applying to receive benefits when a child is born. Described below are the required procedures and application methods in such cases:

Health insurance eligibility procedures

Information on what to do to have an Eligibility Verification Certificate or Notice of Eligibility Information issued or reissued (New issue and reissue of health insurance cards have ended.)

Information on what to do if you move and change your address

Information on what to do if you marry

Information on what to do to add family members

Information on what to do after you leave your employer

Information on what to be exempt from the long-term care insurance program

Benefit procedures

Information on what to do after a child is born

Information on mandatory procedures before a female insured person takes time off from work for childbirth

Information on what to do if the insured person or dependent has died

Information on procedures for benefits that repay medical care costs you have paid up front

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

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

Information on what to do when you incur high medical care costs

Health check-ups, health examinations, and gynecological examinations procedures