My number card in hospital, instead of insurance card

The government strengthened its policy to allow My Number cards to be used as health insurance cards in FY 2018. We will promptly confirm the identity of the patient, reduce the burden of medical affairs, and promote card dissemination. The Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare posted ¥ 24.3 billion as an expense related to system construction in the initial budget plan for FY2005. In a medical institution that is ready to respond to My Number cards, if you pass a card through a special machine, you will be able to receive prescriptions of medical examination and medication even without an insurance card. A "screening and paying organization" that receives a medical fee from a medical institution is a mechanism to receive a consignment from a health insurance union etc, so that the insurance qualification can be checked on the system and answer inquiries from medical institutions. The medical institution does not immediately know the insurance certificate that has expired due to job change or job separation, and in many cases the revocation is found later. This kind of situation can be prevented if the type of insurance to which the patient is subscribed can be instantaneously confirmed.