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| Health insurance cards (health insurance eligibility information)
 You can use health insurance after you join the Health Insurance Society and your eligibility information is registered. Note that health insurance cards are no longer newly issued or reissued since December 2, 2024. Use a Myna health insurance card.
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Caution:
Use of current health insurance cards will be abolished on December 2, 2024 and they will no longer be newly issued or reissued thereafter.
(Health insurance cards already issued will remain valid for up to one year after this date as a provisional measure.)
Use of current health insurance cards was abolished on December 2, 2024 and they are no longer newly issued or reissued since then.
* Myna (My Number) health insurance card: This is an Individual Number Card (also called "My Number Card") registered for use as a health insurance card. (You must be issued an Individual Number Card and complete registration for use on Mynaportal or elsewhere.)
* Those who do not have a Myna health insurance card can get examinations and treatment at medical care institutions by presenting an eligibility verification certificate issued by their health insurance society. |
|  Eligibility verification certificate, notice of eligibility information
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Even if your eligibility cannot be verified using a Myna health insurance card, you can still get medical care covered by health insurance using either of the following forms:
Eligibility verification certificate
Those who do not have an Individual Number Card or who have not registered their Individual Number Card for use as a health insurance card can use this form to get medical care at medical care institutions and other facilities.
From December 2, 2024, Eligibility Verification Certificates will be issued upon application, but the Health Insurance Society will issue by its authority the certificates to those who cannot use a Myna health insurance card. However, if you have a valid health insurance card during the transitional period until December 1, 2025, you may not be issued an Eligibility Verification Certificate even if you apply.
Eligibility Verification Certificates have expiration dates. (These differ by health insurance society. In the Society’s case, the certificates are valid for three years in principle.). Additionally, it must be returned to the Health Insurance Society if the bearer loses eligibility before the expiration date.
Notice of eligibility information
This form, which makes it easy to check member codes/numbers and other information, is sent to all members in principle.(Sent to new members from December 2, 2024.)>>Click here to check on the Notice of Eligibility Information.
Note that you cannot get medical care covered by health insurance using just a notice of eligibility information. You can get medical care covered by health insurance by presenting this form together with your Myna health insurance card, in cases such as when visiting a medical care institution that is not required to adopt the online eligibility verification system. |
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Unauthorized alteration of information stated in the insurance
card (excluding address) is prohibited, as is lending the card
to persons other than dependents. Insurance cards function as
an important means of personal identification. Please exercise
sufficient caution; in particular, keep your card in a safe place
and avoid leaving your card at hospitals.
Please report to the Health Insurance Society immediately in the event you lose
your insurance card or when the information stated on your card is no longer
current.
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Use a Myna health insurance card. |
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The online eligibility verification system has been introduced to make it possible to verify eligibility information online based on the IC chip on the Individual Number Card or the health insurance card code and number. You can use your Individual Number Card as a health insurance card at medical care institutions and other facilities that have adopted the online eligibility verification system. (Requires advance registration on Mynaportal etc.)
See here for more information. >>You can use your Social Security and Tax Number Card as your health insurance card.
● To enable smooth verification of eligibility using a Myna health insurance card to get medical care |
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To avoid cases of visiting a medical care institution or other facility and presenting a Myna health insurance card before data has been registered by the Health Insurance Society, please note the following points when applying for eligibility as an insured person or dependent.
1. You can use your Individual Number Card to get medical care only after the Health Insurance Society receives a notification of eligibility (or, for dependents, a notification of dependents; “Notification of Eligibility, etc.” hereinafter) that indicates the correct Individual Number, name, date of birth, gender, and address (“Individual Number, etc.” hereinafter) and the Society completes data registration. (You cannot use your Individual Number Card to get medical care until data registration is complete.)
2. If the Notification of Eligibility, etc. indicates the correct Individual Number, etc., data registration will typically be completed within five days after the Notification of Eligibility, etc. is submitted to the Health Insurance Society.
3. Check the following points in cases in which the correct Individual Number is not shown on a document submitted by the member in relation to certification of eligibility.
- The Notification of Eligibility, etc. is required by law to indicate the Individual Number and the Individual Number is necessary for data registration.
- It may take some time for data registration to be completed.
- You cannot use your Individual Number Card as a Myna health insurance card until data registration is complete.
With the introduction of online verification of eligibility, a branch number has been added |
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With the introduction of online verification of eligibility, a two-digit branch number has been added to the code and number of each insured person or dependent to allow individual identification.
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