Subsidies for health checkups (for employee family members, Voluntarily and Continuously Insured Persons and their family members, and Special-Case Retired Insured Persons and their family members)
The Hitachi Health Insurance Society provides various subsidies for health checkups.
Please review the specifics of health checkup subsidy programs before using them.
See the individual pages linked below for details.
For employee family members, Voluntarily and Continuously Insured Persons and their family members, and Special-Case Retired Insured Persons and their family members
The checkup items for which subsidies are available differ by age. Refer to the table below and check the page for each checkup item.
- *Subsidies are available only to those who are members of the Hitachi Health Insurance Society at the time of the checkup.
- *The age used to determine eligibility is the age as of the end of the fiscal year (March 31).
| Health checkup item | Eligible persons | Amount paid by examinee (tax included) | Maximum subsidy provided by health insurance (tax included) | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Basic health checkups | Complete medical checkup | Employee family members, Voluntarily and Continuously Insured Persons, Special-Case Retired Insured Persons 35 or older | Roughly 30% of the cost of the health checkup | 28,520 yen |
| Abbreviated complete medical checkup | Employee family members, Voluntarily and Continuously Insured Persons, Special-Case Retired Insured Persons 30 or older | Flat fee of 3,000 yen | Checkup cost minus amount paid by examinee | |
| Health checkup for women | Employee family members, Voluntarily and Continuously Insured Persons, Special-Case Retired Insured Persons 30 or older (women only) | |||
| Specific health checkup (using a checkup ticket) | Employee family members, Voluntarily and Continuously Insured Persons, Special-Case Retired Insured Persons 30 or older (women only) | Free | Full cost paid by the Health Insurance Society | |
| Specified site examinations | Cervical cancer screening | Employee family members, Voluntarily and Continuously Insured Persons, Special-Case Retired Insured Persons 25 or older (women only) | Amount beyond the maximum subsidy provided by health insurance | 2,850 yen |
| Breast cancer screening | Employee family members, Voluntarily and Continuously Insured Persons, Special-Case Retired Insured Persons 30 or older (women only) | 3,570 yen（*2） | ||
| Stomach cancer screening | Only employee family members, Voluntarily and Continuously Insured Persons, Special-Case Retired Insured Persons 30 or older who undergo the health checkup for women | 7,130 yen | ||
| Abdominal examination | Employee family members, Voluntarily and Continuously Insured Persons, Special-Case Retired Insured Persons 30 or older | 3,570 yen | ||
| Arteriosclerosis examination | Employee family members, Voluntarily and Continuously Insured Persons, Special-Case Retired Insured Persons 35 or older | 2,550 yen | ||
| Hepatitis viral examination | 2,040 yen | |||
| Thyroid function test | 3,570 yen | |||
| Lung cancer screening | Employee family members, Voluntarily and Continuously Insured Persons, Special-Case Retired Insured Persons 35 or older | 7,130 yen | ||
| ABC examination (testing for risk of stomach cancer) |
3,570 yen | |||
| Brain MR examination | Employee family members, Voluntarily and Continuously Insured Persons, Special-Case Retired Insured Persons at the milestone ages of 35 years, 40 years, and every three years thereafter (*1) | 20,370 yen | ||
| Prostate cancer screening | Employee family members, Voluntarily and Continuously Insured Persons, Special-Case Retired Insured Persons 50 or older (men only) | 1,530 yen | ||
| Dental examination | Employee family members, Voluntarily and Continuously Insured Persons, Special-Case Retired Insured Persons 16 or older | 3,060 yen |
- (*1) Milestone ages: those whose age at the end of the fiscal year is 35, 40, 43, 46, 49, 52, 55, 58, 61, 64, 67, 70, or 73
- (*2) Following revisions of the subsidy program for specified site examinations effective from FY2018, the maximum subsidy increases to 6,620 yen if certain conditions are met. (For more information, see the Description page for specified site examinations [optional examinations].)