National Health Insurance Act

(Special Provisions for Insured Persons Staying at Designated Facility Covered by Long-Term Care Insurance), etc.

An insured person who is found to have changed domicile to the location of a designated facility covered by public aid providing long-term care to the elderly (meaning a designated facility covered by public aid providing long-term care to the elderly prescribed in Article 48, paragraph (1), item (i) of the Long-Term Care Insurance Act; the same applies hereinafter in this paragraph) or a specified-area facility covered by public aid providing long-term care to the elderly (meaning a specified-area facility covered by public aid providing long-term care to the elderly prescribed in Article 49, paragraph (1), item (ii) of that Act; the same applies hereinafter in this paragraph) by being admitted to that designated facility covered by public aid providing long-term care to the elderly or specified-area facility covered by public aid providing long-term care to the elderly, and who is found to have been domiciled withinin the area of another Municipality (meaning aany Municipality other than the Municipalitythat in which that designated facility covered by public aid providing long-term care to the elderly or specified-area facility covered by public aid providing long-term care to the elderly is located) at the time of being admitted to that designated facility covered by public aid providing long-term care to the elderly or specified-area facility covered by public aid providing long-term care to the elderly, is deemed, for the purpose of the application of this Act, to be domiciled within the area of the other Municipality while continuously admitted to a Converted Community-Based Facility for the Elderly Covered by Public Aid Requiring Long-Term Care, even where that designated facility covered by public aid providing long-term care to the elderly or specified-area facility covered by public aid providing long-term care to the elderly becomes, due to a reduction of its admission capacity, a community-based facility for the elderly covered by public aid requiring long-term care prescribed in Article 8, paragraph (2221) of that Act (limited to one for which the designation under the main clause of Article 42-2, paragraph (1) of that Act has been received with respect to an office that carries out the business of community-based long-term care for residents of facilities for the elderly covered by public aid prescribed in Article 8, paragraph (2221) of that Act; hereinafter referred to as a "Converted Community-Based Facility for the Elderly Covered by Public Aid Requiring Long-Term Care" in this Article); provided, however, that this does not apply to an insured person who has been continuously hospitalized, admitted or resident (hereinafter referred to as "hospitalization, etc." in this Article) in two or more hospitals, etc. (meaning the hospitals, etc. prescribed in Article 116-2, paragraph (1); the same applies hereinafter in this Article) including a designated facility covered by public aid providing long-term care to the elderly or specified-area facility covered by public aid providing long-term care to the elderly that has become a Converted Community-Based Facility for the Elderly Covered by Public Aid Requiring Long-Term Care (hereinafter referred to as a "Former Facility Covered by Public Aid Providing Long-Term Care to the Elderly" in this Article) (limited to a person who is continuously admitted to that Converted Community-Based Facility for the Elderly Covered by Public Aid Requiring Long-Term Care), and who is found to have changed domicile sequentially to the locations of the hospital, etc. in which the person was hospitalized, etc. immediately before being admitted to that Former Facility Covered by Public Aid Providing Long-Term Care to the Elderly (hereinafter referred to as the "last hospital, etc." in this paragraph) and of that Former Facility Covered by Public Aid Providing Long-Term Care to the Elderly, respectively, by being hospitalized, etc. in each of the last hospital, etc. and that Former Facility Covered by Public Aid Providing Long-Term Care to the Elderly (referred to as a "specified continuously hospitalized insured person" in the following paragraph).

This Act comes into effect on April 1, 2027; provided, however, that the provisions set forth in the following items come into effect as of the dates specified respectively in those items.

Omitted

the amending provisions of Article 2, paragraph (3), item (xii), Article 80 (including the caption), Article 81 (including the caption), Article 83 and Article 84 (including the caption) of the Social Welfare Act in Article 2, the amending provisions of Article 8, paragraphs (11) and (20) of the Long-Term Care Insurance Act in Article 4, the amending provision adding one item to Article 13, paragraph (1) of that Act, the amending provision of Article 78-10, item (xiii) of that Act, and the amending provisions of Article 117, paragraph (3), item (ix) and paragraph (5), item (i), and Article 118, paragraph (3), item (vii) of that Act, the amending provisions of Article 19, paragraphs (3) and (4) of the Act on Providing Comprehensive Support for the Daily Life and Life in Society of Persons with Disabilities in Article 6, the provisions of Article 9 (excluding the amending provisions of Article 5-2, paragraphs (2) and (7), and Article 10-4, paragraph (1), item (i) of the Act on Social Welfare for the Elderly in that Article, the amending provision adding one item to Article 20-8, paragraph (3) of that Act, the amending provisions of paragraph (4) of that Article, Article 20-9, paragraph (4) and Article 21-2 of that Act, and the amending provision renumbering item (v) of Article 31-2, paragraph (1) of that Act as item (vii) of that paragraph and adding two items after item (iv) of that paragraph), and the amending provision of Article 84-3 of the Public Assistance Act in Article 14, and the provisions of Articles 12, 22, 24 through 26, 28, 38 and 39 of the Supplementary Provisions, the amending provision of Article 116-2, paragraph (1), item (vi) of the National Health Insurance Act (Act No. 192 of 1958) in Article 47 of the Supplementary Provisions, the provisions of Articles 48, 50 and 51 of the Supplementary Provisions, the amending provision of Article 55, paragraph (1), item (v) of the Act on Assurance of Medical Care for Elderly People (Act No. 80 of 1982) in Article 58 of the Supplementary Provisions, the provisions of Articles 59 and 64 of the Supplementary Provisions, and the provisions of Article 65 of the Supplementary Provisions (excluding the amending provision of Article 17-24, paragraph (3), item (iii) of the Local Revitalization Act (Act No. 24 of 2005) in that Article): the date specified by Cabinet Order within a period not exceeding two years from the date of promulgation;

the provisions of Article 2 (excluding the amending provisions set forth in the preceding item), the provisions of Article 4 (excluding the amending provisions set forth in that item), the provisions of Article 6 (excluding the amending provisions set forth in that item), the amending provisions of the table of contents of the Child Welfare Act in Article 7, the amending provision of Article 25-2, paragraph (1) of that Act, the amending provision of Article 33-23-11, paragraph (1) of that Act, the amending provision adding four Articles to Section 9 of Chapter II of that Act and the amending provision of Article 61-3 of that Act, the provisions of Article 10, and the provisions of Article 14 (excluding the amending provisions set forth in that item), and the provisions of Articles 18 through 20, 32, 34, 36, 41, 43 and 45 of the Supplementary Provisions, the provisions of Article 47 of the Supplementary Provisions (excluding the amending provision set forth in that item), the provisions of Articles 53 and 55 of the Supplementary Provisions, the provisions of Article 58 of the Supplementary Provisions (excluding the amending provision set forth in that item), and the provisions of Articles 61, 63, 67, 69, 71 and 74 of the Supplementary Provisions: the date specified by Cabinet Order within a period not exceeding three years from the date of promulgation.