Specified site examinations (optional examinations)
Once each fiscal year, the Hitachi Health Insurance Society subsidizes specified site examinations not included in the basic health checkups (i.e., complete medical checkups, abbreviated complete medical checkups, health checkups for women, and Specific health checkup(using a checkup ticket). (Items of specified site examinations that are included in complete medical checkups or other basic health checkups are not eligible for subsidy as specified site examinations.)
- * No subsidy will be provided for ineligible examination items and examination methods.
(Examples: rectal cancer screening, breast cancer screening by palpation only)
- * No subsidy will be provided for examinations received using health insurance (treated as insured medical examinations).
- * You must pay the full cost up front for a specified site examination undergone individually (e.g., receiving a brain MR examination only), even if it was conducted by an examining institution under contract to the Hitachi Health Insurance Society.
Specified site examinations (optional examinations)
Eligible persons
Employee family members, Voluntarily and Continuously Insured Persons and their family members, Special-Case Retired Insured Persons and their family members of ages eligible for the subsidy, as indicated in the table below
- *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).
Number of times the subsidy can be provided
Once per fiscal year
Amounts of subsidy provided by health insurance
| Examination item | Examination method | Ages eligible for subsidy | Maximum subsidy provided by health insurance (tax included) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cervical cancer screening | Internal examination (or transvaginal ultrasound) by a physician and cervical cytology (collected by a physician) （*1） | 20 years or older (women only) | 3,180 yen |
| Breast cancer screening | Mammography (mammary X-ray) or mammary ultrasound | 30 years or older (women only) | 3,570 yen（*3） |
| Stomach cancer screening | Upper digestive tract X-ray (using barium) or upper digestive tract endoscopy (gastric camera) | 30 years or older (only those who undergo health checkup for women) *No reimbursement provided for costs paid up front |
9,540 yen |
| Abdominal examination | Abdominal ultrasound | 30 years or older | 3,890 yen |
| Arteriosclerosis examination | Carotid artery ultrasound or blood pressure pulse wave | 35 years or older | 2,650 yen |
| Hepatitis viral examination | HBs antigen and HCV antibody (*1) | 35 years or older | 2,070 yen |
| Thyroid function test | Thyroid hormones | 35 years or older | 3,570 yen |
| Lung cancer screening | Chest CT | 35 years or older | 7,130 yen |
| ABC examination (testing for risk of stomach cancer) | Helicobacter pylori antibody test, pepsinogen test, and ABC evaluation (*1) | 35 years or older | 3,570 yen |
| Brain MR examination | Cranial MRI and MRA (*1) | Milestone ages of 35 years, 40 years, and every three years thereafter (*2) Milestone ages table of Brain MR examination |
20,370 yen |
| Prostate cancer screening | Prostate-specific antigen (PSA) test | 50 years or older (men only) | 1,680 yen |
| Dental examination | Oral examination and health guidance | 16 years or older | 3,060 yen |
- (*1) No subsidy will be paid for cervical cancer screening, hepatitis viral examination, ABC examination, and brain MR examination, unless all tests eligible for the subsidy are performed. (For example, a cranial MRI by itself will not be eligible for the subsidy.)
- (*2) 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
- (*3) The maximum subsidy will increase to 6,620 yen only if both the mammary X-ray (mammography) and mammary ultrasound are optionally performed at the same time. If the screening is performed at an examining institution contracted by the Hitachi Health Insurance Society, the subsidy will be paid only if the contract covers the set comprising both the mammary X-ray and mammary ultrasound. (No subsidy will be paid if either of these exams is conducted on a different day or at a different institution.)