Please be informed that dental checkup subsidy program for FY2023 has launched to encourage employees to regularly visit their local dentists. Your cost at local dentists will be covered, and instead, free and mass dental checkups is going to be abolished.
Please make sure that you keep the receipt offered at the local dentist to receive the dentist subsidy program.
1. Eligible person
Insured individuals who want to see the dentist
2. Medical institutions covered by the subsidy program
Any local dentists
3. Annual subsidy per person
Actual out-of-pocket expenses for dental visits. Max. 4,000 yen per visit, and biannual dental visits for 8,000 yen will be covered.
4. Applicable period
Dental visits between April 1 and March 31
5. Application method
(1) Subsidy application period: Between April 5 and April 30 on the following year
* Subsidy application period for dental examinations during FY2023 will be between April 5 and April 30, 2024.
(2) How to apply: visit the application system that will be announced later
[Note on receipts]
－Keep the receipt(s) for the application.
*If you have lost the receipt(s), we are afraid, but you cannot be subsidized.
－Please make sure that the all items below are included in the receipt.
●Dentist name, ●Full name of the insured who have visited the dentist, ●Date of issue, and ●Total cost paid
6. Payment period
The subsidy will be paid with your salary in May and later.
For voluntary insureds, the subsidy will be paid to their designated bank account.
7. Important notes
Free mass dental checkups are no longer available from FY2023.