# 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 / Act on Assurance of Medical Care for Elderly People — 第百五十五条 (Article 155) - 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: 第百五十五条 (Article 155)（国保連合会の業務） — address `art-155` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/elderly-medical-care-act/art-155 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-155 - 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. --- ### 第百五十五条（国保連合会の業務） — (Operations of NHI Federations) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-155 · https://japanlaw.org/en/elderly-medical-care-act/art-155 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-155 **第一項** 国保連合会は、国民健康保険法の規定による業務のほか、第七十条第四項（第七十四条第十項、第七十五条第七項、第七十六条第六項及び第七十八条第八項において準用する場合を含む。）の規定により後期高齢者医療広域連合から委託を受けて行う療養の給付に要する費用並びに入院時食事療養費、入院時生活療養費、保険外併用療養費及び訪問看護療養費の請求に関する審査及び支払の業務を行う。 art-155/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/elderly-medical-care-act/art-155/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-155/par-1 In addition to the operations under the provisions of the National Health Insurance Act, a Federation of National Health Insurance Associations performs the operations of examination and payment of claims for expenses required for benefits for medical treatment provided based on entrustment from an Association of Medical Care Systems for the Elderly Aged 75 and older pursuant to the provisions of Article 70, paragraph (4) (including as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 74, paragraph (10), Article 75, paragraph (7), Article 76, paragraph (6), and Article 78, paragraph (8)), as well as dietary treatment expenses for inpatients, living support expenses for inpatients, medical expenses combined with treatment outside insurance coverage, and medical expenses for home-nursing. Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "In addition to the operations under the provisions of the National Health Insurance Act, a Federation of Health Insurance Associations performs the operations of examination and payment of claims for expenses required for benefits for medical treatment provided based on entrustment from a Association of Medical Care Systems for the Elderly Aged 75 and older pursuant to the provisions of Article 70, paragraph (4) (including as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 74, paragraph (10), Article 75, paragraph (7), Article 76, paragraph (6), and Article 78, paragraph (8)), as well as dietary treatment expenses for inpatients, living support expenses for inpatients, medical expenses combined with treatment outside insurance coverage, and medical expenses for home-nursing." — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4903/tb **第二項** 国保連合会は、前項に規定する業務のほか、後期高齢者医療の円滑な運営に資するため、次に掲げる業務を行うことができる。 art-155/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/elderly-medical-care-act/art-155/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-155/par-2 In addition to the operations prescribed in the preceding paragraph, a NHI federation may conduct the following operations in order to contribute to the smooth operation of medical care for elderly persons: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **一** 第五十八条第三項の規定により後期高齢者医療広域連合から委託を受けて行う第三者に対する損害賠償金の徴収又は収納の事務 art-155/par-2/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/elderly-medical-care-act/art-155/par-2/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-155/par-2/item-1 affairs of collecting or receiving compensation for damage from a third party, conducted upon entrustment from the Association of Medical Care Systems for the Elderly Aged 75 and older pursuant to the provisions of Article 58, paragraph (3); machine translation, not official **二** 前号に掲げるもののほか、後期高齢者医療の円滑な運営に資する事業 art-155/par-2/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/elderly-medical-care-act/art-155/par-2/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-155/par-2/item-2 beyond what is set forth in the preceding item, a project that contributes to the smooth operation of Old-Old Healthcare. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-155/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-155/par-1: 第七十四条第十項 → 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 第七十四条第十項 (Article 74, paragraph (10)), art-74/par-10 — https://japanlaw.org/en/elderly-medical-care-act/art-74/par-10 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-74/par-10 - art-155/par-1: 第七十五条第七項 → 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 第七十五条第七項 (Article 75, paragraph (7)), art-75/par-7 — https://japanlaw.org/en/elderly-medical-care-act/art-75/par-7 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-75/par-7 - art-155/par-1: 第七十六条第六項 → 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 第七十六条第六項 (Article 76, paragraph (6)), art-76/par-6 — https://japanlaw.org/en/elderly-medical-care-act/art-76/par-6 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-76/par-6 - art-155/par-1: 第七十八条第八項 → 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 第七十八条第八項 (Article 78, paragraph (8)), art-78/par-8 — https://japanlaw.org/en/elderly-medical-care-act/art-78/par-8 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-78/par-8 - art-155/par-2: 前項 → 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 第百五十五条第一項 (Article 155, paragraph (1)), art-155/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/elderly-medical-care-act/art-155/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-155/par-1 - art-155/par-2/item-1: 第五十八条第三項 → 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 第五十八条第三項 (Article 58, paragraph (3)), art-58/par-3 — https://japanlaw.org/en/elderly-medical-care-act/art-58/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-58/par-3 - art-155/par-2/item-2: 前号 → 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 第百五十五条第二項第一号 (Article 155, paragraph (2), item (i)), art-155/par-2/item-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/elderly-medical-care-act/art-155/par-2/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-155/par-2/item-1 ## Cited by 3 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 第百五十五条第二項（国保連合会の業務） — https://japanlaw.org/en/elderly-medical-care-act/art-155/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-155/par-2 - 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 第百五十五条第二項第二号（国保連合会の業務） — https://japanlaw.org/en/elderly-medical-care-act/art-155/par-2/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-155/par-2/item-2 - 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 第百五十六条第一項（議決権の特例） — https://japanlaw.org/en/elderly-medical-care-act/art-156/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-156/par-1 --- ## Sources - claude-opus-5-5 — Corrections to the Ministry of Justice's English of 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律, written 2026-10-19 - 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 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Act on Assurance of Medical Care for Elderly People (高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律), Article 155, paragraph (1) — the Ministry of Justice's English as printed (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