Article 44Mutatis Mutandis Application

②The provisions of Article 41-2, paragraph (1) (excluding the parts relating to items (ii), (iv), (viii), (x), (xiv) and (xvi)), paragraph (2) of that Article (excluding the parts relating to items (ii), (iv), (viii), (x), (xiv) and (xvi) of paragraph (1)), paragraphs (8) through (10) of that Article, Article 41-3, Article 42, paragraph (10), paragraph (11) of that Article (excluding the parts relating to items (ii) and (iii)) and paragraph (12) of that Article (excluding the parts relating to items (ii) and (iii)) apply mutatis mutandis to the payment of high-cost medical expenses for persons who are, on the reference date, specially-insured day laborers and persons who are dependents thereof.

③The provisions of Article 41-2, paragraphs (5) through (10) and Article 42, paragraph (10) apply mutatis mutandis to the payment of high-cost medical expenses for persons who were specially-insured day laborers and persons who were dependents thereof during the calculation period (limited to persons who, on the reference date, are persons listed in Article 7, paragraph (4), items (i) through (v) of the Act on Assurance of Medical Care for Elderly People or insured persons of the late-stage elderly medical care system).

④With regard to the payment of high-cost medical expenses under Article 41-2 in the case where a specially-insured day laborer, during the calculation period, is approved under the proviso to Article 3, paragraph (2) of the Act or returns the specially-insured day laborer's insurance book pursuant to Article 126, paragraph (3) of the Act, and does not become a person covered by medical insurance in the calculation period on or after the day on which the person received that approval or returned that insurance book, and in other cases specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, the provisions of the preceding two paragraphs and the provisions applied mutatis mutandis therein apply by deeming the day preceding the day on which the person received that approval or the day preceding the day on which the person returned that insurance book (in a case specified by that Order, the day specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare) to be the reference date.

⑤With regard to the payment of high-cost medical expenses under Article 41-3 in the case where a specially-insured day laborer (excluding a person who is a specially-insured day laborer on the reference date) is approved under the proviso to Article 3, paragraph (2) of the Act or returns the specially-insured day laborer's insurance book pursuant to Article 126, paragraph (3) of the Act during the calculation period, the provisions of paragraph (2) and the provisions applied mutatis mutandis therein apply by deeming the day preceding the day on which the person received that approval or returned that insurance book (if there are multiple days on which the person received that approval or returned that insurance book in the calculation period, the latest of those days) to be the reference date.

⑥The provisions of Article 43-2, paragraphs (1) through (3) (excluding the portions relating to paragraph (1), items (ii) and (iv)), Article 43-3, paragraphs (1) through (3) (excluding the portions relating to paragraph (1), items (ii) through (iv) and paragraph (2), items (ii) through (iv)) and paragraph (2) of the preceding Article apply mutatis mutandis to the payment of expenses for high-cost medical treatment combined with long-term care to a person who is a specially-insured day laborer on the reference date and a person who is a dependent thereof.

⑦The provisions of Article 43-2, paragraphs (5) through (7), Article 43-3, paragraphs (5) and (6) and paragraph (2) of the preceding Article apply mutatis mutandis to the payment of expenses for high-cost medical treatment combined with long-term care to a person who was a specially-insured day laborer and a person who was a dependent thereof during the calculation period (limited to a person who, on the reference date, is a person listed in Article 7, paragraph (4), items (i) through (v) of the Act on Assurance of Medical Care for Elderly People or an insured person of the late-stage elderly medical care system).

⑧With regard to the payment of expenses for high-cost medical treatment combined with long-term care in the case where a specially-insured day laborer, during the calculation period, is approved under the proviso to Article 3, paragraph (2) of the Act or returns the specially-insured day laborer's insurance book pursuant to Article 126, paragraph (3) of the Act, and does not become a person covered by medical insurance in the calculation period on or after the day on which the person received that approval or returned that insurance book, and in other cases specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, the provisions of the preceding two paragraphs and the provisions applied mutatis mutandis therein apply by deeming the day preceding the day on which the person received that approval or the day preceding the day on which the person returned that insurance book (in a case specified by that Order, the day specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare) to be the reference date.