Newborn Hearing Test

The city subsidizes newborn hearing test fees.

When you are issued the Mother and Child Health Handbook, you will be given a consultation slip.

The Newborn Hearing Test is a simple hearing test for newborns to detect hearing impairments early in order to receive appropriate care at the earliest possible stage.

The test is done during your child's natural sleep by an automatic auditory brainstem response test (automatic ABR) or an otoacoustic emission test (OAE).

The test takes a few minutes, no medication is used, and there is no pain or harm.

Newborn babies with a registered address (Juumin-hyou/住民票) in Minamisoma.

1 time (first examination)

(NOTE) After the first examination, if it is deemed necessary for your newborn to be reexamined, subsidies will be provided for up to three additional visits, including a confirmation examination and a confirmation reexamination.

8,500 yen

3,000 yen

(NOTE) If the examination cost exceeds the subsidy amount, the difference will be borne by the user. If it is within the maximum subsidy amount, the cost required for the examination will be subsidized.

The consultation slip (newborn hearing test examination slip) is included in the "Mother and Child Health Booklet" that is issued together with the Mother and Child Health Handbook.

Please fill in the required items on the consultation slip and submit it to the receptionist at the medical institution to take the examination.

(NOTE) If you move in from outside the city, please take the examination after receiving the consultation slip issued by Minamisoma City.

• Newborn Hearing Test Consultation Slip
• Mother and Child Health Handbook

Medical institutions within the prefecture.

If you receive an examination at a medical institution outside the prefecture, such as in the case of returning to one’s hometown to give birth, please pay the initial costs and apply for the subsidy for the newborn hearing test fee either at the counter or by mail to have the fee reimbursed up to the maximum amount of the subsidy.

Each Health (and Welfare) Center

Within 6 months from the day you take the examination.

• Newborn Hearing Test Result Notification (with the results written inside)
• Receipt from the medical institution
• Mother and Child Health Handbook
• Applicant’s Bank Passbook
• Personal seal/hanko

• Copy of the medical examination receipt issued by the medical institution (as per the consultations on your general prenatal health check-up consultation slips)
• Copy of the Mother and Child Health Handbook (the cover and the examination results)
• Copy of the applicant’s Bank Passbook (page with the account information)
• Your General Prenatal Health Check-up Consultation Slips (filled it with the details of the examination and the results, etc.)