Japan Health Insurance offers High-Cost Medical Expense Benefit, which caps the self-pay of medical care.
Ordinary, patients in Japan pay 30% of the medical costs, but repeated visits or hospitalization may be a burden. High-Cost Medical Expense Benefit will pay back to the patients. For more info, see Japan Health Insurance Association (written in Japanese.)
High-Cost Medical Expense Benefit (under 70 years old)
| Self Pay (Yen) | |
| Return (Yen) | |
| Self Pay, 4th month and after(Yen) |
When you get return via High-Cost Medical Expense Benefit three or more times in the last 12 months, self-pay cap will be lowered.
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