The Association of Medical Care Systems for the Elderly Aged 75 and older pays dietary treatment expenses for inpatients to an insured (excluding an insured who receives long-term hospitalization and medical treatment (referred to as a "long-term inpatient insured" in paragraph (1) of the following Article); the same applies hereinafter in this Article) for the expenses required for dietary treatment received together with the benefits for medical treatment listed in Article 64, paragraph (1), item (v) at a medical institution providing services covered by health insurance, etc. (excluding pharmacies providing services covered by health insurance; the same applies hereinafter in this Article and the following Article) of the insured's own choosing; provided, however, that this does not apply while the insured is subject to the provisions of Article 82, paragraph (1) or the main clause of paragraph (2).
後期高齢者医療広域連合は、被保険者（長期入院療養を受ける被保険者（次条第一項において「長期入院被保険者」という。）を除く。以下この条において同じ。）が、保険医療機関等（保険薬局を除く。以下この条及び次条において同じ。）のうち自己の選定するものについて第六十四条第一項第五号に掲げる療養の給付と併せて受けた食事療養に要した費用について、当該被保険者に対し、入院時食事療養費を支給する。ただし、当該被保険者が第八十二条第一項又は第二項本文の規定の適用を受けている間は、この限りでない。
The amount of dietary treatment expenses for inpatients is the amount calculated by deducting the amount specified by the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare in consideration of the status of food expenses for an average household budget and the average amount of expenses required to provide meals at a specified nursing care insurance facilities, etc. (meaning a specified facility, etc. for insured long-term care prescribed in Article 51-3, paragraph (1) of Long-Term Care Insurance Act) (for a person specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare in consideration of income status and other circumstances, a separately determined amount; hereinafter referred to as the "standard co-payment for dietary treatment") from the amount of expenses calculated based on the standards specified by the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare in consideration of the average amount of expenses required for the dietary treatment (when the calculated amount exceeds the amount of expenses actually incurred in the dietary treatment, the amount of expenses actually incurred).
入院時食事療養費の額は、当該食事療養につき食事療養に要する平均的な費用の額を勘案して厚生労働大臣が定める基準により算定した費用の額（その額が現に当該食事療養に要した費用の額を超えるときは、当該現に食事療養に要した費用の額）から、平均的な家計における食費の状況及び特定介護保険施設等（介護保険法第五十一条の三第一項に規定する特定介護保険施設等をいう。）における食事の提供に要する平均的な費用の額を勘案して厚生労働大臣が定める額（所得の状況その他の事情をしん酌して厚生労働省令で定める者については、別に定める額。以下「食事療養標準負担額」という。）を控除した額とする。
If the circumstances pertaining to the matters to be taken into consideration have significantly changed after the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare has determined the standard co-payment amount for dietary treatment, the Minister must promptly revise the amount.
厚生労働大臣は、食事療養標準負担額を定めた後に勘案又はしん酌すべき事項に係る事情が著しく変動したときは、速やかにその額を改定しなければならない。
A medical institution providing services covered by health insurance, etc. and a physician providing health insurance treatment, etc. (excluding pharmacists filling health insurance prescriptions; the same applies in paragraph (4) of the following Article) must handle or take charge of medical treatment pertaining to dietary treatment expenses for inpatients in accordance with the standards for the handling and taking charge of medical treatment pertaining to dietary treatment expenses for inpatients specified by the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare.
When an insured has received dietary treatment at or from a medical institution providing services covered by health insurance, etc., the Association of Medical Care Systems for the Elderly Aged 75 and older may, on behalf of the insured, pay to the medical institution providing services covered by health insurance, etc. expenses incurred for the dietary treatment payable by the insured to the medical institution providing services covered by health insurance, etc., within the limit of the amount payable to the insured as expenses for dietary treatment for inpatients.
被保険者が保険医療機関等について食事療養を受けたときは、後期高齢者医療広域連合は、その被保険者が当該保険医療機関等に支払うべき食事療養に要した費用について、入院時食事療養費として被保険者に対し支給すべき額の限度において、被保険者に代わり、当該保険医療機関等に支払うことができる。
If a payment under the provisions of the preceding paragraph is made, it is deemed that dietary treatment expenses for inpatients are paid to the insured.
前項の規定による支払があつたときは、被保険者に対し入院時食事療養費の支給があつたものとみなす。
A medical institution providing services covered by health insurance, etc. must, when receiving payment of the expenses required for dietary treatment, issue a receipt to the insured who made the payment, pursuant to the provisions of Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare.
The Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare must hear the opinions of the Central Social Insurance Medical Council in advance, when the Minister intends to establish standards under the provisions of paragraph (2) and standards concerning the treatment and taking charge of medical treatment pertaining to dietary treatment expenses for inpatients prescribed in paragraph (4).
The provisions of Article 71, paragraph (2) apply mutatis mutandis to the authority of the Central Social Insurance Medical Council concerning the particulars prescribed in the preceding paragraph.
The provisions of Article 64 of the Health Insurance Act and Article 64, paragraph (3), Article 66, Article 70, paragraphs (2) through (7), and Article 72 of this Act apply mutatis mutandis to dietary treatment received at or from a medical institution providing services covered by health insurance and to the payment of dietary treatment expenses for inpatients associated with that treatment. In such a case, Cabinet Order provides for the necessary technical replacement of terms in connection with these provisions.
健康保険法第六十四条並びに本法第六十四条第三項、第六十六条、第七十条第二項から第七項まで及び第七十二条の規定は、保険医療機関等について受けた食事療養及びこれに伴う入院時食事療養費の支給について準用する。この場合において、これらの規定に関し必要な技術的読替えは、政令で定める。
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