A person who receives benefits for medical treatment from a medical institution providing services covered by health insurance or a pharmacy providing services covered by health insurance pursuant to the provisions of Article 63, paragraph (3) must pay, in accordance with the classifications listed in the following items, an amount obtained by multiplying the amount calculated pursuant to the provisions of Article 76, paragraph (2) or (3) with respect to the benefit by the ratio specified in the relevant item below, as the person's co-payment to the medical institution or the pharmacy when receiving the benefit:
if the month in which the person's 70th birthday falls has not yet begun:0.30;
七十歳に達する日の属する月以前である場合 百分の三十
if the month in which the person's 70th birthday falls has elapsed (excluding the case listed in the following item):0.20; and
七十歳に達する日の属する月の翌月以後である場合(次号に掲げる場合を除く。) 百分の二十
if the month in which the person's 70th birthday falls has elapsed and the amount of remuneration calculated as specified by Cabinet Order is not less than the amount specified by Cabinet Order:0.30.
七十歳に達する日の属する月の翌月以後である場合であって、政令で定めるところにより算定した報酬の額が政令で定める額以上であるとき 百分の三十
A medical institution providing services covered by health insurance or a pharmacy providing services covered by health insurance is to receive the co-payment referred to in the preceding paragraph (if the reduction referred to in Article 75-2, paragraph (1), item (i) is made, the co-payment after the reduction) and, when a person who received the relevant benefit for medical treatment fails to make all or part of the co-payment despite the efforts of the medical institution or pharmacy to receive the payment with the same level of care as the due care of a prudent manager, the insurer may impose a disposition on the person pursuant to the same rules as those for the money to be collected pursuant to the provisions of this Act, at the request of the medical institution or pharmacy.
保険医療機関又は保険薬局は、前項の一部負担金(第七十五条の二第一項第一号の措置が採られたときは、当該減額された一部負担金)の支払を受けるべきものとし、保険医療機関又は保険薬局が善良な管理者と同一の注意をもってその支払を受けることに努めたにもかかわらず、なお療養の給付を受けた者が当該一部負担金の全部又は一部を支払わないときは、保険者は、当該保険医療機関又は保険薬局の請求に基づき、この法律の規定による徴収金の例によりこれを処分することができる。