Supplementary Provisions

This Cabinet Order comes into effect on January 1, 2017.

The provisions of Article 42, paragraph (3) of the Order for Enforcement of the Health Insurance Act (limited to the part relating to item (vi), and including as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 44, paragraph (1) of the Order for Enforcement of the Health Insurance Act) apply to the base amount for calculating high-cost medical expenses under Article 41, paragraph (3) of that Order where the month in which the medical treatment was received is on or after August 2017, and to the base amount for the combined long-term care calculation for persons aged 70 or over under Article 43-2, paragraph (2) of that Order (excluding as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to paragraphs (3) and (4) of that Article) where the month that includes the reference date prescribed in the proviso to Article 41-2, paragraph (1) of that Order (including the day deemed to be the reference date pursuant to Article 43-4, paragraph (1) or Article 44, paragraph (7) of that Order; hereinafter referred to as the "reference date" in this paragraph) is on or after that month, and with regard to that base amount for calculating high-cost medical expenses where the month in which the medical treatment was received is on or before July of that year, and that base amount for the combined long-term care calculation for persons aged 70 or over where the month that includes the reference date is on or before that month, the provisions then in force continue to govern.