Japan: average health care fee per day by disease 2022

As of June 2022, the average health care fee for outpatients per day was highest for the treatment of neoplasms at around three thousand points, which equals about 30 thousand Japanese yen. Neoplasms treatment was also the most expensive inpatient medical care at over 7.8 thousand points per day.
Medical fees in Japan are scored in points and distributed to patients at the cashier as a receipt. The ministry of health designates the score points of medical treatments according to the services and required techniques. Each point can be calculated as 10 yen and is used to determine the amount of money covered by health insurance available in the country.

Average medical care prices per day for inpatients and outpatients in Japan in 2022, by classification of disease (in points)

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Release date

June 2023

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Region

Japan

Survey time period

2022; as of June

Supplementary notes

*Including conditions originating in the perinatal period, congenital malformations, deformations and chromosomal abnormalities, external causes of morbidity and mortality, etc.
**Including disease complications or sequelae during and post-pregnancy, infection and parasitic disease during pregnancy, etc.

The points were calculated based on around 56.2 million receipts for medical practices.
Each point equals 10 Japanese yen.
Figures exclude points for treatment for advanced elderly, which refers to treatment for those over 75 years old and is based on a different arrangement than the general health care system in Japan.

100 Japanese yen equal 0.68 U.S. dollars or 0.63 euros as of February 2024.

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