Supplementary Provisions, Article 18Transitional Measures Accompanying the Partial Amendment of the Act on Assurance of Medical Care for Elderly People
第十八条（高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律の一部改正に伴う経過措置）
With regard to the health insurance card or health insurance certificate of a person who, at the time the provisions of Article 12 come into effect, is actually issued a health insurance card or health insurance certificate by the Association of Medical Care Systems for the Elderly Aged 75 and older, in the case where that person receives medical treatment from a medical institution providing services covered by health insurance, etc. on or after the item (ii) Effective Date or receives designated home-nursing from a designated home-nursing provider, the provisions then in force continue to govern during the period in which that health insurance card or health insurance certificate is deemed to be valid under the provisions of the Act on Assurance of Medical Care for Elderly People as it stood before the amendment by the provisions of that Article (including orders based thereon) (or, where the last day of that period falls on or after the day following the day on which one year has elapsed counting from the item (ii) Effective Date, for one year counting from the item (ii) Effective Date).
第十二条の規定の施行の際現に後期高齢者医療広域連合から被保険者証又は被保険者資格証明書の交付を受けている者が、第二号施行日以後に保険医療機関等から療養を受ける場合又は指定訪問看護事業者から指定訪問看護を受ける場合における当該被保険者証又は被保険者資格証明書については、同条の規定による改正前の高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律（これに基づく命令を含む。）の規定により当該被保険者証又は被保険者資格証明書が効力を有するとされた間（当該期間の末日が第二号施行日から起算して一年を経過する日の翌日以後であるときは、第二号施行日から起算して一年間とする。）は、なお従前の例による。