Steps for outpatient service
Our hospital is designated as a special function hospital. We provide high levels of quality medicine, and we contribute to regional medical care in full cooperation with medical institutions of the region. If this is your first visit to our hospital, we recommend that you have a letter of referral from your local medical institution.
Registration procedure
- Referral Letter
- If you have a referral letter (a patient referral document), please submit it at the reception desk for your initial medical examination (Desk No.1)
- Initial medical examination
Treatment of Patients’ Choice Fee (Sentei Ryouyou-hi) for the initial examination: 7,700 yen (tax included). - In accordance with the regulation stipulated by the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, if you visit this hospital without a referral letter from another insurance-covered medical treatment facility, we will charge separately for the Treatment of Patients’ Choice Fee (Sentei Ryouyou-hi) in addition to your insurance co-payment.
- Even if you have visited our hospital, you may be subject to a separate charge if more than six months (more than five months in the case of pediatrics) have passed since your last visit.
- Even if you regularly attend our hospital, we will charge separately for the Treatment of Patients’ Choice Fee (Sentei Ryouyou-hi) in case you have a medical examination in another hospital department without an in-hospital referral letter.
- If you do not have a referral letter for each hospital department, we will charge separately for the Treatment of Patients’ Choice Fee (Sentei Ryouyou-hi).
- At the follow-up examination
Treatment of Patients’ Choice Fee (Sentei Ryouyou-hi) for the follow-up examination: 3,300 yen (tax included). - In case you continue to visit our hospital at your request despite a referral letter from us to another medical institution, we will charge separately for the Treatment of Patients’ Choice Fee (Sentei Ryouyou-hi) for each follow-up examination.
※This does not apply in cases where patients come to our hospital without a referral letter from another medical institution due to an emergency or unavoidable circumstances.
Outpatient registration hours
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| Your first visit | With reservation | 8：30～14：30 | 8：30～11：30 |
| No reservation | 8：30～11：30 13：00～14：30 |
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| Return visit | With reservation | 7：45～16：00 | 7：45～11：30 |
| No reservation | 7：45～11：30 13：00～14：30 |
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We are closed on the following days
Sundays, holidays, hospital founding day (29 June), New Year's holidays (29 December to 3 January)
Flow of first visit
Flow of return visit
Physical examination appointment request
Please complete and bring the physical examination appointment request. (This request form is also available at our hospital.)
Healthcare card identification
We will check your insurance card once a month.
Please present this at the beginning of a month when you visit our hospital at ③ insurance card verification window. Please present your card at each time a change is made to the insurance card (eg occupation, change in job, departure from job, marital status, change in address).
If the insurance card / medical care card and such is not presented, we will raise a charge to you for the full amount of the medical examination.
Please consult your physician at the time of examination with regard to your next appointment.
Appointment time is the general time of your hospital arrival. Please be noted that physical examination start time and order of appointments may change due to factors including condition of other patients.
Your medicine
As a rule, we will issue a prescription to be filled at an off site pharmacy. Such prescription is valid for 4 days including the date of issue. Please take this prescription to the off site pharmacy before expiry.
