# 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 / Act on Assurance of Medical Care for Elderly People — 第百五十三条 (Article 153)

- 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: 第百五十三条 (Article 153)（医療情報基盤・診療報酬審査支払機構法の適用の特例） — address `art-153`
- Text in force since: 2026-10-01
- URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/elderly-medical-care-act/art-153
- Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-153
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### 第百五十三条（医療情報基盤・診療報酬審査支払機構法の適用の特例） — Special Provisions on Application of the Medical Information Infrastructure and Medical Fee Examination and Payment Organization Act
<sup>caption: machine translation, not official</sup>
<sup>art-153 · https://japanlaw.org/en/elderly-medical-care-act/art-153 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-153</sup>

**第一項**  第百一条第一項に規定する命令は、医療情報基盤・診療報酬審査支払機構法第十四条第三項及び第四項の規定の適用については、同法第三十九条に規定する命令とみなし、高齢者医療制度関係業務は、同法第四十三条第二項の規定の適用については、同法第十八条に規定する業務とみなす。
<sup>art-153/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/elderly-medical-care-act/art-153/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-153/par-1</sup>
With regard to the application of the provisions of Article 14, paragraphs (3) and (4) of the Medical Information Infrastructure and Medical Fee Examination and Payment Organization Act, an order prescribed in Article 101, paragraph (1) is deemed to be an order prescribed in Article 39 of the same Act, and with regard to the application of the provisions of Article 43, paragraph (2) of the same Act, the services related to the medical care system for the elderly are deemed to be the services prescribed in Article 18 of the same Act.
<sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

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## Cites
- art-153/par-1: 第百一条第一項 → 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 第百一条第一項 (Article 101, paragraph (1)), art-101/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/elderly-medical-care-act/art-101/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-101/par-1

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## 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
- claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch elderly-medical-care-act-20261019T112331-005, translated 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
