Article 54Payment of an Exceptional Allowance for Preventive Service of Long-Term Care

①A Municipality, in the following cases, pays an Exceptional Allowance for Preventive Service of Long-Term Care to an Insured In-Home Person Requiring Support:

③The amount of Exceptional Allowance for Preventive Long-Term Care Service is to be determined by a Municipality based on the amount equivalent to 90 percent of the amount of expenses calculated based on standards provided by the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare as set forth in each item of paragraph (2) of the preceding Article pertaining to said Preventive Long-Term Care Service or equivalent service (when the calculated amount exceeds the actual expenses required for said Preventive Long-Term Care Service or equivalent service (except for the expenses required to purchase Specified Equipment for Preventive Long-Term Care Covered by Public Aid and excluding the expenses necessary to provide meals, residence, and other expenses as determined by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare as necessary for daily life with regard to the expenses required for Outpatient Rehabilitation for Preventive Long-Term Care, Short-Term Admission for Daily Preventive Long-Term Care, Short-Term Admission for Recuperation for Preventive Long-Term Care and Daily Preventive Long-Term Care Admitted to a Specified Facility, and services equivalent to these), said calculated amount is to be the actual expenses required for said Preventive Long-Term Care Service or equivalent service).

④The mayor of a Municipality, when he or she determines the necessity of payment of an Exceptional Allowance for Preventive Service of Long-Term Care, may order a person that has been in charge of the Preventive Service of Long-Term Care pertaining to said payment or equivalent service (herein referred to as "Person, etc., in Charge of Providing Preventive Long-Term Care Service" in this paragraph) to report, submit, or present record books and documents, appear, or direct personnel to question the relevant Person or enter the Business Office of the provider of said Person, etc., in Charge of said Preventive Service of Long-Term Care pertaining to said payment in order to inspect said equipment, record books and documents, and other items.

⑤The provisions of Article 24, paragraph (3) apply mutatis mutandis to questions or inspections as prescribed in the preceding paragraph, and the provisions of paragraph (4) of the same Article apply mutatis mutandis to the authority granted as prescribed in the preceding paragraph.