Health Checkups
FY2024
The following health checkup courses provided by the YG Health Insurance Society cover the items to be included in health checkups funded by employers and specific health checkups (specified health diagnosis).
Members can undergo health checkups once per fiscal year. The ages given are as of the end of the fiscal year (March 31, 2025).
Employees' copayments and available checkup courses vary based on the employer's decisions.
Health Checkup Courses
Members can receive the following health checkups at the medical care institutions specified by the YG Health Insurance Society:
| Health Checkup Courses | Basic checkup | Health insurance designated comprehensive medical examination | Full-day comprehensive outpatient medical examination |
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| Course description | Course covering employer-funded regular checkup items and specified health diagnosis | Course adding stomach cancer screening, abdominal ultrasound, and other examinations to the basic checkup | Course adding funduscopic exam, pulmonary function test, and other examinations to the health insurance designated comprehensive medical examination |
| Eligible persons | 29 or younger | 30 or older | 35 or older |
| Copayment Price (excluding tax) not including additional optional examinations |
1,500 yen | 5,000 yen | 10,000 yen |
| *Since costs are covered by the employer, no copayment applies to employees. | |||
| Examination item | Examination Items *Some medical institutions may stop some examination items to prevent COVID-19 infection. |
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| Designated medical care institutions | Basic checkup | Health insurance designated comprehensive medical examination | Full-day comprehensive outpatient medical examination（male） Full-day comprehensive outpatient medical examination（female） |
| Period during which appointments are accepted | From April 19, 2024 to December 6, 2024 | ||
| Checkup period | From May 7, 2024 to December 27, 2024 | ||
| How to apply | Employers or subcontractors will provide information to employees separately. Voluntarily and Continuously Insured Persons and dependents: Click here for more information. |
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| Optional examinations | To get an optional examination, contact the contracted medical care institution directly to make the corresponding appointment in advance. You are responsible for the full cost of optional examinations. See below for more information. Depending on the medical institution, there are some inspection items that are free of charge. |
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| Basic checkup | Course description：Course covering employer-funded regular checkup items and specified health diagnosis | Eligible persons：29 or younger | Copayment（Price (excluding tax) not including additional optional examinations）：1,500 yen（Since costs are covered by the employer, no copayment applies to employees） | Examination item：Examination Items *Some medical institutions may stop some examination items to prevent COVID-19 infection. |
Designated medical care institutions：Basic checkup | Period during which appointments are accepted：From April 19, 2024 to December 6, 2024 | Checkup period：From May 7, 2024 to December 27, 2024 | How to apply： Employers or subcontractors will provide information to employees separately. Voluntarily and Continuously Insured Persons and dependents: Click here for more information. |
Optional examinations： To get an optional examination, contact the contracted medical care institution directly to make the corresponding appointment in advance. You are responsible for the full cost of optional examinations. See below for more information. Depending on the medical institution, there are some inspection items that are free of charge. |
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| Health insurance designated comprehensive medical examination | Course description：Course adding stomach cancer screening, abdominal ultrasound, and other examinations to the basic checkup | Eligible persons：30 or older | Copayment（Price (excluding tax) not including additional optional examinations）：5,000 yen（Since costs are covered by the employer, no copayment applies to employees） | Examination item：Examination Items *Some medical institutions may stop some examination items to prevent COVID-19 infection. |
Designated medical care institutions：Health insurance designated comprehensive medical examination | Period during which appointments are accepted：From April 19, 2024 to December 6, 2024 | Checkup period：From May 7, 2024 to December 27, 2024 | How to apply： Employers or subcontractors will provide information to employees separately. Voluntarily and Continuously Insured Persons and dependents: Click here for more information. |
Optional examinations： To get an optional examination, contact the contracted medical care institution directly to make the corresponding appointment in advance. You are responsible for the full cost of optional examinations. See below for more information. Depending on the medical institution, there are some inspection items that are free of charge. |
| Full-day comprehensive outpatient medical examination | Course description：Course adding funduscopic exam, pulmonary function test, and other examinations to the health insurance designated comprehensive medical examination | Eligible persons：35 or older | Copayment（Price (excluding tax) not including additional optional examinations）：10,000 yen（Since costs are covered by the employer, no copayment applies to employees） | Examination item：Examination Items *Some medical institutions may stop some examination items to prevent COVID-19 infection. |
Designated medical care institutions： Full-day comprehensive outpatient medical examination（male） Full-day comprehensive outpatient medical examination（female） |
Period during which appointments are accepted：From April 19, 2024 to December 6, 2024 | Checkup period：From May 7, 2024 to December 27, 2024 | How to apply： Employers or subcontractors will provide information to employees separately. Voluntarily and Continuously Insured Persons and dependents: Click here for more information. |
Optional examinations： To get an optional examination, contact the contracted medical care institution directly to make the corresponding appointment in advance. You are responsible for the full cost of optional examinations. See below for more information. Depending on the medical institution, there are some inspection items that are free of charge. |
Optional Inspection
Those wishing to check option examination, please apply in advance to each contract medical institution in advance.
You will be billed the entire amount if you lack eligibility or if you are examined at a facility other than a contracted medical care institution.
Insured persons (not including Voluntarily and Continuously Insured Persons) may be eligible for assistance from their employers equal to their copayments. For more information, contact the HR section at your employer.
| Checkup Type | Eligible Age | Amount to Pay (Tax Exc.) |
Remarks |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cervical cytology Uterine ovary examination (ultrasonic Uterus scan) |
All ages | 500 yen | Uterine ovary examination is limited to the available medical examination facilities. |
| Breast cancer screening (ultrasonic breast scan) | All ages | 500 yen | － |
| Breast cancer screening (mammography) | 40 or older | 0 yen | － |
| 40 or younger | 3,000 yen | － | |
| HPV examination (Cervical cancer screening) |
All ages | 4,000 yen | － |
| Bone density | All ages | 1,000 yen | － |
| Brain checkup | 50 or older (once in 3 years) |
12,000 yen | － |
| Lung CT scan | 50 or older (once in 3 years) |
5,000 yen | － |
| Cervical cytology Uterine ovary examination (ultrasonic Uterus scan) |
Eligible Age：All ages | Amount to Pay (Tax Exc.)：500 yen | Remarks：Uterine ovary examination is limited to the available medical examination facilities. |
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| Breast cancer screening (ultrasonic breast scan) | Eligible Age：All ages | Amount to Pay (Tax Exc.)：500 yen | |
| Breast cancer screening (mammography) | Eligible Age：40 or older | Amount to Pay (Tax Exc.)：0 yen | |
| Eligible Age：40 or younger | Amount to Pay (Tax Exc.)：3,000 yen | ||
| HPV examination (Cervical cancer screening) | Eligible Age：All ages | Amount to Pay (Tax Exc.)：4,000 yen | |
| Bone density | Eligible Age：All age | Amount to Pay (Tax Exc.)：1,000 yen | |
| Brain checkup | Eligible Age：50 or older (once in 3 years) | Amount to Pay (Tax Exc.)：12,000 yen | |
| Lung CT scan | Eligible Age：50 or older (once in 3 years) | Amount to Pay (Tax Exc.)：5,000 yen |
Note the Following
The fee for optional examinations is paid on the day of the checkup. If you want to receive optional examinations other than the above, make a direct appointment with the medical institution and pay the entire fee on the day of the checkup.
Checkup Results
The checkup results will be sent to your home address approximately two weeks to one month after the checkup.
Handling of Personal Information for Appointments and Checkups
The policy for handling personal information received for appointments and checkups is indicated below. We ask that you consent to such handling before participating in checkups.
Goal of Using Personal Information
The personal information we receive is used within the scope indicated below.
- Registering checkup appointments, checking checkup eligibility, sending medical questionnaires, sending checkup tickets
- Medical checkups, sending checkup documents such as checkup result reports, accounting for checkup fees, sending administrative notices
- Making diagnoses based on checkup results, giving specified health guidance, issuing letters of referral
- Contacting for office work and providing specified health guidance after checkups
- Anonymous case research to improve the quality of checkup techniques
- Specified health guidance according to the judgment level based on the Act on Assurance of Medical Care for Elderly People
- Processing statistics
Provision and Shared Use of Personal Information for Medical Checkups
- When an employer outsources (legally proscribed) medical checkups to the Society, the results of health checkups for insured persons shall be provided to the employer and shared with the Society to maintain health and safety of workers and comply with the Industrial Safety and Health Act.
- Unless stipulated by the law, personal information shall not be provided to third parties without the consent of the individual in question.
Outsourcing Work
We outsource some work related to medical checkups upon entering into confidentiality agreements and memorandums on the handling of personal information.