# 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 / Act on Assurance of Medical Care for Elderly People — 第百二十六条 (Article 126) - Law: 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 (Act on Assurance of Medical Care for Elderly People), 昭和五十七年法律第八十号 - English title "Act on Assurance of Medical Care for Elderly People": Ministry of Justice translation - Kind: Act — the distinction between 法律 (Act), 政令 (Cabinet Order), 省令 (Ministerial Order) and 条例 (local ordinance) decides who may issue it and what it may say. - Provision: 第百二十六条 (Article 126)（審査委員会） — address `art-126` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/elderly-medical-care-act/art-126 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-126 - Every provision below carries its address and both URLs on the line under it. - Japanese text: e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁). English: as marked on each line below. Only the Japanese as published by the government has legal effect; the text below is a copy of it. Every English rendering below is a translation and says which kind: the Ministry of Justice's translation, or this site's machine translation, whose model and date the Sources list names. They are never merged and never substituted for one another. --- ### 第百二十六条（審査委員会） — (Review Committee) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-126 · https://japanlaw.org/en/elderly-medical-care-act/art-126 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-126 **第一項** 第七十条第四項の規定による委託を受けて診療報酬請求書の審査を行うため、国保連合会に後期高齢者医療診療報酬審査委員会を置く。 art-126/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/elderly-medical-care-act/art-126/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-126/par-1 A Medical Fee Review Committee for Old-Old Healthcare is established within the NHI Federations in order to review medical bills as entrusted pursuant to the provisions of Article 70, paragraph (4). Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 前項の規定にかかわらず、国民健康保険法第八十七条に規定する審査委員会を置く国保連合会は、当該審査委員会において後期高齢者医療に係る診療報酬請求書の審査を行うことができる。 art-126/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/elderly-medical-care-act/art-126/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-126/par-2 Notwithstanding the provisions of the preceding paragraph, a NHI federation with a review committee as prescribed in Article 87 of the National Health Insurance Act may have the review committee review medical bills pertaining to medical care for the elderly. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-126/par-1: 第七十条第四項 → 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 第七十条第四項 (Article 70, paragraph (4)), art-70/par-4 — https://japanlaw.org/en/elderly-medical-care-act/art-70/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-70/par-4 - art-126/par-2: 前項 → 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 第百二十六条第一項 (Article 126, paragraph (1)), art-126/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/elderly-medical-care-act/art-126/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-126/par-1 - art-126/par-2: 国民健康保険法第八十七条 → 国民健康保険法 第八十七条 (Article 87), art-87 — https://japanlaw.org/en/national-health-insurance-act/art-87 · https://japanlaw.org/l/333AC0000000192/art-87 ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 第百二十六条第二項（審査委員会） — https://japanlaw.org/en/elderly-medical-care-act/art-126/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-126/par-2 --- ## Sources - e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 — the text in force from 2026-10-01 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/357AC0000000080/20261001_507AC0000000087), retrieved 2026-10-19 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Act on Assurance of Medical Care for Elderly People — Ministry of Justice translation (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4903/tb), retrieved 2026-10-19 - This site's parser, version 209 — 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-19