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Kanagawa Prefecture Specific Diseases medical care benefits Business

Last Updated April 2, 2024

medical care benefits Business (Kanagawa Business)

New medical expenses Subsidy Program for incurable disease from January 1, 2015 (Kanagawa Prefecture website) (outside site)

Overview

Part of the co-payment of medical insurance (for those who have been severely certified, etc.) will be borne by public expenses according to the amount of income tax.

Target disease

Smon

Method of Procedure

Please receive the application form at the Elderly and Disabled Support Division Health and Welfare Center and submit it with required documents.

  • Documents required for new applications
  1. Kanagawa Prefecture Specific Disease medical care certificate Grant Application Form
  2. Clinical survey personal card for the application disease (within 3 months from the date of the doctor's statement)
  3. Copy of health insurance card
  4. Copy of resident certificate (within three months from the date of issue with the relationship of all households)
  5. If you are a member of employee insurance (Kempo Association, Health Insurance Association, Mutual Aid Association, etc. employee health insurance where you work), you must agree to provide information on high medical costs's income category from the insurer.
  6. If you are a member of a National Health Insurance union other than Kanagawa Prefecture-approved (Kanagawa Prefecture Doctor, Dentists, Food Sanitation, Pharmacists, Construction Union National Health Insurance Association), municipal inhabitants of union members and all insured persons Tax (non) tax certificate (copy of municipal tax tax payment letter of advice etc. is not allowed)
  • Documents required for new general application

In addition to the above

  1. Income tax certificate of livelihood-centered person (withholding slip, copy of income tax return, municipal inhabitant tax exemption certificate, etc. If the livelihood-centered person is exempt from municipal inhabitant tax, be sure to submit a tax exemption certificate)
  • Documents required for new severe illness application

In addition to the above

  1. Application for Certification of Severe Patients
  • ※Smon will need a copy of the Health Care Handbook.
  • ※Depending on the disease, it is necessary to attach an X-ray film to the clinical survey personal card.
  • ※In the case of severe illness, the validity period is from the first day of the month following the date of application to September 30.

Application items in each Health and Welfare Center

○New application ○ Severe change application (general → severe) ○ Transfer application ○ Return (transfer to other prefectures) ○ Change application ○ medical expenses refund request

Details of the system, application form, etc.

Please refer to the Kanagawa Prefecture website (Kanagawa Prefecture Specific Disease medical care benefits System) (outside site). You can download forms other than the application form.

Submission of application documents

  1. Mailed to Kanagawa Prefectural Office Cancer and Disease Control Section
    Mail address: incurable disease Countermeasures Group, Cancer and Disease Control Division, Kanagawa Prefectural Health and Welfare Bureau 1, Nihon Odori, Naka-ku, Yokohama 231-8588, Japan
  2. Bring it to each Health and Welfare Center contact point

Inquiries and applications

  1. Health and Welfare Center Elderly and Disabled Support Division

Inquiries to this page

Health and Social Welfare Bureau Medical Aid Division, incurable disease

Telephone: 045-671-4405

Telephone: 045-671-4405

Fax: 045-664-5788

Email address: kf-nanbyo@city.yokohama.jp

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