Article 8
Where a contracted medical care institution provides diagnostic and treatment services, such as outpatient, emergency or inpatient care, or re-checks the NHI Card, it shall return the NHI Card to the cardholder after recording the medical record and the medical visit category (hereinafter referred as the “MVC”) of cumulative medical-visit serial number (hereinafter referred as the “CMVSN”) into the NHI Card.
If the medical service in the preceding paragraph is given during the same course of treatment, it shall be recorded only once for the MVC of CMVSN. In addition, if the same physician simultaneously provides other treatments, the recording should not be duplicated.
The therapeutic course in the preceding paragraph refers to a course of continuous treatment which is given within a specific period of time with the items listed below:
1. Simple wounds: wound dressing change within 2 days.
2. The therapeutic course is within 30 days from the first day of treatment: Hemodialysis, community organization rehabilitation therapy for mental illness, psychotherapy for psychiatric illness, psychiatric activity therapy, psychiatric occupational therapy, cancer radiotherapy, hyperbaric oxygen therapy, chemotherapy, immunotherapy, home nursing or any other item designated by the insurer.
3. The therapeutic course has no more than six treatments, and is within 30 days from the first day of treatment: western medicine rehabilitation therapy, photodynamic therapy, simple change of wound dressings, the same injection of non-chemotherapy drugs, removal of tartar of the same tooth treatment, operative dentistry of the same tooth (tooth filling), same tooth extraction, removal of stitches after operation, electrical stimulation treatment for urinary incontinence, pelvic muscle physical therapy, pulmonary rehabilitation traditional Chinese medicine acupuncture, fractures, wounds and restoration of dislocated bone of the same diagnosis that needs continuous treatment, and any other item designated by the insurer;
4. The therapeutic course has no more than six treatments, and is from the first day of treatment to the end of next month: western medicine rehabilitation for children under 9 years old.
5. The therapeutic course is within 60 days from the first day of treatment: endodontic therapy of the same location.
Where the last day of treatment of the same therapeutic course is weekend or public holiday, the last day of treatment should be automatically extended to the next business day.

Article 28
These Regulations shall come into force on January 1, 2013, except Articles 6, 7, 10 and 24 which shall come into force from the date of promulgation.
The amended articles of these Regulations shall come into force from the date of promulgation.