Enforcement Rules of the National Health Insurance Act Article 50

The premiums which shall be shouldered or subsidized by the various levels of governments prescribed in Paragraph 2 of Article 3 and Subparagraph 4 of Paragraph 1 of Article 30 of the Act shall be approved and calculated by the Insurer. The Insurer shall submit the calculated premiums to the governments before January 15 and July 15 each year respectively and request such governments to advance the premium payments by the end of January and the end of July.In the case that the premiums which are subsidized by the central social welfare authority set forth in Subparagraph 3 of Paragraph 1 of Article 30 of the Act, the Insurer shall calculate the subsidized premium and submit the payment request to the authority by the 15th day of the previous month for payment which shall be made by the 5th day of the month.The Insurer shall calculate annually the premiums born or subsidized by all government agencies. If the advance payment is insufficient, the Insurer should, by the end of December, request the agencies to pay the premiums in full before the end of January of the following year.