When insured person / family gives birth

When a baby is born

Pregnancy
Prenatal leave (42 days)
Birth
Postpartum leave (56 days)
Maternity leave
Return to work

Put your baby as dependent

Until when Promptly
Documents to be submitted Dependent (transfer) notification

Benefits you can receive when you give birth

The insurance benefits for childbirth are "childbirth after 4 months (85 days) or more of pregnancy (including caesarean section), premature birth, stillbirth, and abortion (only under the Maternal Protection Law)".
※The right to claim benefits is two years. (Rights will be extinguished after the deadline.)

Amount of lump-sum payment for childbirth and childcare
Which system do you use to claim the lump-sum birth allowance?

Direct payment system

The health insurance association can pay the lump-sum birth allowance directly to the delivery institution, etc., simply by exchanging an agreement with the delivery institution that gives birth.
As a result, please pay only the amount exceeding the lump-sum birth allowance to the delivery institution.
If the cost of childbirth is less than the lump-sum birth allowance, the difference will be paid by the Health Insurance Society.

Receiving agency system

Even if you give birth at a small delivery institution that does not have a direct payment system, you can apply in advance to the Health Insurance Society that the agent who will receive the lump-sum birth allowance will be the delivery institution where you plan to give birth. The cost burden is reduced.
It can be used at some small delivery institutions that have notified the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare.

Note) If you are giving birth overseas, please contact the Health Insurance Society.

Billing Flowchart

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Direct payment system
Submission time After delivery
Documents to be submitted (For direct payment system)
Insured person / family birth / childcare lump sum / additional payment (internal payment) invoice
Attachment ① Copy of receipt for childbirth expenses (If you are enrolled in the obstetrics medical compensation system, the receipt is stamped)

Submission destination Submit to the Health Insurance Association via the health insurance office worker at your place company
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Do not use the direct payment system
Submission time After delivery
Documents to be submitted Insured / family childbirth / childcare lump-sum payment / additional charge invoice
Attachment ① Copy of receipt for childbirth expenses (If you are enrolled in the obstetrics medical compensation system, the receipt is stamped)
② A copy of the agreement document issued by the medical institution
Documents stating that you will not use the direct payment system
Submission destination Submit to the Health Insurance Association via the health insurance office worker at your place company
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Receiving agency system
Submission time Before childbirth
Documents to be submitted (Receipt agency system)
Insured person / family birth / childcare lump sum / surcharge bill
Attachment ① A copy of the Maternal and Child Health Handbook (page with the name of the child and the expected date, or a document certifying the expected date)
Submission destination Submit to the Health Insurance Association via the health insurance office worker at your place company

When a female insured person has given birth for 4 months or more and is absent from work and cannot receive all or part of her salary

Maternity allowance
Documents to be submitted Maternity allowance invoice
Obtain a doctor's certificate and submit it to the health insurance company via the health insurance office worker at your company.
Amount received Maternity Allowance (statutory benefit)
Two-thirds of the standard daily salary per day when absent from the company within the receiving period
If you take a maternity leave due to childbirth, you will receive two-thirds of the standard daily salary for each day you take a leave from the company within the payment period.

42 days before the expected date of delivery and 56 days from the day after delivery are covered. If you give birth earlier than the scheduled date, the period will be 42 days before delivery and 56 days after delivery (98 days in total) based on the date of delivery.

The standard daily salary is the standard monthly salary ÷ 30 days (rounded to the nearest 10 yen)

Get exempt from insurance premiums during prenatal and postnatal leave

From the perspective of nurturing the next generation, this system is designed to reduce the financial burden before and after childbirth and create an environment that makes it easier for workers to have children, and is exempt from insurance premiums during the period of taking maternity leave.

※For details, please check with the health insurance office worker at your place of employment.

Get exempt from insurance premiums during childcare leave

This system is designed to make it easier for women to work and for their children to grow up healthy, and is exempt from insurance premiums during the period of taking childcare leave.
Note: This system applies only when raising children under the age of three.
※For details, please check with the health insurance office worker at your place of employment.