To medical institutions in Yokohama City

Along with the partial revision of the Child Welfare Law, "Date of diagnosis" (the day when the contents were diagnosed) will be added to the medical opinion issued to patients with chronically ill children from October 1, 2023. Will be “Date of diagnosis” is required to determine the start date of medical care benefits for children with chronic illness, so please do not omit any omissions.
In principle, it is necessary to submit a medical opinion after the revision, but if you are forced to use the medical opinion before the revision, please indicate the date of diagnosis in the remarks column or margin.
For more information, please refer to the following website.

Please refer to here for the start date of the medical expenses grant for chronic childhood illness.
→　Advancement of the medical expenses grant start date

The new medical opinion is posted on the website of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare below.
In addition, as medical statement of position published in homepage of Child Chronic Specific Disease Information Center is updated, please inflect sequentially.

Medical Opinion Statement (Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare website) enforced on October 1, 2023 (external site)
Child Chronic Specific Disease Information Center (outside site)

About designation of designated medical institution and designated doctor, we had you perform application procedure by mail conventionally, but had you perform application procedure.
From October 1, 2024, we have shifted to online application procedures.
Therefore, please access the following linked website (electronic application and notification system of Yokohama-shi) and apply each application from application form.

[Designated Medical Institutions] (Transit to the linked website) (External site)
[Designated Doctor] (Transit to the linked website) (External site)

In principle, the first day of the month following the month in which the designated application was received is the certification date.

If there is an error in the contents of the medical institution (hospital, pharmacy, home-visit nursing) and the designated doctor list on the linked page below, please contact the Medical Aid Division. Please note that it will take several months from application to listing on the list.
In principle, individual designated notices are sent out by the end of the month before the certification date.

In Yokohama City, designated doctor training will be conducted as a web training program.
Those who are applying for designated physicians and who are not qualified as specialists certified by academic societies as stipulated by the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare are required to take this training course.