About health examinations

The AZSA Health Insurance Society offers health examinations by age category once each year (April-March). Insured persons may get either individual health examinations (complete check-ups or lifestyle related disease health screenings), periodic health examinations conducted jointly with employers (your employer will provide information on these exams), or traveling gynecological health examinations (for women who are dependents) at no charge. The AZSA Health Insurance Society will cover the cost of these exams. (The employer will also cover certain costs.)
The same health examinations are available for dependents aged 18 and older.
Note that insured persons or dependents aged 18-34 who wish to undergo a complete check-up can do so using 8,000 Cafeteria Points.
Health examinations are available only at the roughly 320 external medical care institutions nationwide with which the AZSA Health Insurance Society has concluded contracts.

Health examination courses

The basic health examination courses will change from fiscal 2016.

• Youth health examinations have been discontinued.
• Adult health examinations have been renamed lifestyle related disease health screenings, and the ages of those eligible for these exams have changed.
• The ages of those eligible for complete check-ups have also changed.
• Those aged 35-39 may choose either complete check-ups or lifestyle related disease health screenings.

** See here for details of these changes.

Details of health examinations

Optional examinations

The contract with each medical care institution calls for providing the following optional examination items.
Details of available optional exams vary by medical care institution.

• Stomach CT
• Head CT
• Chest CT
• Brain exam (MRI/MRA)
• Carotid artery ultrasound
• Heart ultrasound
• Thyroid gland ultrasound
• Endoscope exam of large intestine
• Transvaginal ultrasound
• Bone density exam
• Helicobacter pylori exam
• Tumor marker PSA
• Tumor marker CA125
• Tumor marker 19-9
• Tumor marker AFP
• Tumor marker CEA

Undergoing health examinations (individual examination)

Check the following page: Portal Site -> Health Examination Appointment System ->Individual health examinations (complete check-ups or lifestyle related disease health screenings) -> List of Medical Care Institutions

To get any of these health exanimations, select a medical care institution, then make an appointment yourself.
(You can make appointments by Internet or phone.)
After application procedures are complete, the Health Insurance Society will send you a Health Examination Authorization Notice.
On the day of your examination, bring your health insurance card and health examination approval letter and present them at the reception counter of the medical care institution.
(You will pay nothing at the medical care institution if you made an appointment to use points for an optional examination item. If you add an optional examination item on the day of the examination, you must pay the additional cost in cash at the institution.)
For detailed information, see “How to Use this System” on the Health Examination Appointment System.

Handling of examination results

The medical care institution submits reports on the results of health examinations of insured persons to the AZSA Health Insurance Society. In addition, results of statutory examinations required under the Industrial Safety and Health Law are provided to employers as set forth in agreements between employers and the Society.