Article 51-3Payment of an Allowance for Long-Term Care Service to a Person Admitted to a Specified Facility
第五十一条の三（特定入所者介護サービス費の支給）
A Municipality, when a person specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare in consideration of the status of income and assets and other circumstances from among Insured Persons Requiring Long-Term Care receives any of the following Designated Facility Service, etc., Designated Community-Based Service, or Designated In-Home Service (hereinafter referred to as "Specified Long-Term Care Service" in this Article and paragraph (1) of the following Article), pays to said Insured Person Requiring Long-Term Care (hereinafter referred to as a "Specified Person Admitted to a Facility" in this Article and paragraph (1) of the following Article) an Allowance for Long-Term Care Service to a Person Admitted to a Specified Facility for the expenses required to provide meals and the expenses required for residence or stay (hereinafter referred to as "Residence, etc.") at a Facility Covered by Long-Term Care Insurance, Designated Community-Based Service Provider, or Designated In-Home Service Provider that provides said Specified Long-Term Care Service (hereinafter referred to as "Specified Facility, etc., for Insured Long-Term Care" in this Article); provided, however, that this does not apply when said Specified Person Admitted to a Facility, in a case where he or she has been issued a designation pursuant to the provisions of Article 37, paragraph (1), receives Specified Long-Term Care Service other than the type pertaining to said designation:
市町村は、要介護被保険者のうち所得及び資産の状況その他の事情をしん酌して厚生労働省令で定めるものが、次に掲げる指定施設サービス等、指定地域密着型サービス又は指定居宅サービス（以下この条及び次条第一項において「特定介護サービス」という。）を受けたときは、当該要介護被保険者（以下この条及び次条第一項において「特定入所者」という。）に対し、当該特定介護サービスを行う介護保険施設、指定地域密着型サービス事業者又は指定居宅サービス事業者（以下この条において「特定介護保険施設等」という。）における食事の提供に要した費用及び居住又は滞在（以下「居住等」という。）に要した費用について、特定入所者介護サービス費を支給する。ただし、当該特定入所者が、第三十七条第一項の規定による指定を受けている場合において、当該指定に係る種類以外の特定介護サービスを受けたときは、この限りでない。
Admission to a Community-Based Facility for Preventive Daily Long-Term Care of the Elderly Covered by Public Aid;
the amount after the amount determined by the Minister of Health, Labour, and Welfare after considering the status of food expenses for an average household budget, the income status of the Specified Person Admitted to a Facility, and other circumstances (hereinafter referred to as "Maximum Allowance for Meal Expense" in this Article and the following Article, paragraph (2)) is deducted from the amount of expenses determined by the Minister of Health, Labour, and Welfare after considering the average expenses required to provide meals at a Specified Facility, etc., for Insured Long-Term Care (in a case when said amount exceeds the actual expenses of providing said meals, the amount is the actual expenses of providing said meals; herein referred to as "Base Cost for Meal Expenses" in this Article and in the following Article, paragraph (2));
the amount after the amount provided by the Minister of Health, Labour, and Welfare after considering the income status of the Specified Person Admitted to a Facility and other circumstances (herein referred to as "Maximum Allowance for Residence Expenses") is deducted from the amount provided by the Minister of Health, Labour, and Welfare after considering the average expenses necessary for Residence, etc., at a Specified Facility, etc., for Insured Long-Term Care, the status of such facility, and other circumstances (in a case when such amount exceeds the actual expenses for said Residence, etc., the amount is the actual expenses for said Residence, etc.; herein referred to as "Base Costs for Residence" in this Article and the following Article, paragraph (2)).
When the expenses necessary of providing meals, Residence, etc., at a Specified Facility, etc., for Insured Long-Term Care, and other circumstances have changed significantly from the Base Cost for Meal Expense or Maximum Allowance for Meal Expense, or Base Costs for Residence or Maximum Allowance for Residence Expenses after the Minister of Health, Labour, and Welfare has issued a determination of these expenses, the Minister must revise those amounts immediately.
When a Specified Person Admitted to a Facility receives Specified Long-Term Care Service from a Specified Facility, etc., for Insured Long-Term Care, a Municipality may pay the expenses required for providing meals and Residence, etc., that said Specified Person Admitted to a Facility should pay to said Specified Facility, etc., for Insured Long-Term Care, within the limit of the amount to be paid to said Specified Person Admitted to a Facility as an Allowance for Long-Term Care Service to a Person Admitted to a Specified Facility on behalf of said Specified Person Admitted to a Facility to said Specified Facility, etc., for Insured Long-Term Care
When the payment pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph is paid, it is to be deemed that an Allowance for Long-Term Care Service to a Person Admitted to a Specified Facility is paid to the Specified Person Admitted to a Facility.
A Municipality, notwithstanding the provisions of paragraph (1) in a case when a Specified Person Admitted to a Facility paid to a Specified Facility, etc., for Insured Long-Term Care, an amount exceeding the Base Cost for Meal Expense or the Base Costs for Residence (with regard to a Specified Person Admitted to a Facility, one who is deemed to be paid an Allowance for Long-Term Care Service to a Person Admitted to a Specified Facility pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph, Maximum Allowance for Meal Expense, or Maximum Allowance for Residence Expenses) as the expenses necessary for providing meals or for Residence, etc., does not pay an Allowance for Long-Term Care Service to a Person Admitted to a Specified Facility.
A Municipality, when a Specified Facility, etc., for Insured Long-Term Care, requests an Allowance for Long-Term Care Service to a Person Admitted to a Specified Facility, pays said allowance after conducting an examination according to the provisions of paragraph (1), paragraph (2) and the preceding paragraph.
The provisions of Article 41, paragraph (3), paragraph (10), and paragraph (11) apply mutatis mutandis to the payment of an Allowance for Long-Term Care Service to a Person Admitted to a Specified Facility and the provisions of paragraph (8) of the same Article apply mutatis mutandis to a Specified Facility, etc., for Insured Long-Term Care in this case, the necessary technical replacement of terms in these provisions is provided by a Cabinet Order.
In addition to the provisions as prescribed in the preceding paragraphs, the other necessary matters the payment of an Allowance for Long-Term Care Service to a Person Admitted to a Specified Facility and a request for an Allowance for Long-Term Care Service to a Person Admitted to a Specified Facility by a Specified Facility, etc., for Insured Long-Term Care, are prescribed by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour, and Welfare.
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