# 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 / Act on Assurance of Medical Care for Elderly People — 第三十七条 (Article 37) - 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: 第三十七条 (Article 37)（前期高齢者納付金の額） — address `art-37` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/elderly-medical-care-act/art-37 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-37 - 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. 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They are never merged and never substituted for one another. --- ### 第三十七条（前期高齢者納付金の額） — (Amount of Young-Old Payments) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-37 · https://japanlaw.org/en/elderly-medical-care-act/art-37 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-37 **第一項** 前条第一項の規定により各保険者から徴収する前期高齢者納付金の額は、当該年度の概算前期高齢者納付金の額とする。ただし、前々年度の概算前期高齢者納付金の額が同年度の確定前期高齢者納付金の額を超えるときは、当該年度の概算前期高齢者納付金の額からその超える額とその超える額に係る前期高齢者納付調整金額との合計額を控除して得た額とするものとし、前々年度の概算前期高齢者納付金の額が同年度の確定前期高齢者納付金の額に満たないときは、当該年度の概算前期高齢者納付金の額にその満たない額とその満たない額に係る前期高齢者納付調整金額との合計額を加算して得た額とする。 art-37/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/elderly-medical-care-act/art-37/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-37/par-1 The amount of young-old payments to be collected from each Insurer pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (1) of the preceding Article is to be the estimated amount of young-old payments for the relevant fiscal year; provided, however, that when the estimated amount of young-old payments for the fiscal year before the previous fiscal year exceeds the fixed amount of young-old payments for that fiscal year, it is to be the amount obtained by deducting from the estimated amount of young-old payments for the relevant fiscal year the sum total of the excess amount and the young-old payment adjustment amount pertaining to the excess amount, and when the estimated amount of young-old payments for the fiscal year before the previous fiscal year is less than the fixed amount of young-old payments for that fiscal year, it is to be the amount obtained by adding to the estimated amount of young-old payments for the relevant fiscal year the sum total of the shortfall and the young-old payment adjustment amount pertaining to the shortfall. machine translation, not official **第二項** 前項に規定する前期高齢者納付調整金額は、前々年度におけるすべての保険者に係る概算前期高齢者納付金の額と確定前期高齢者納付金の額との過不足額につき生ずる利子その他の事情を勘案して厚生労働省令で定めるところにより各保険者ごとに算定される額とする。 art-37/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/elderly-medical-care-act/art-37/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-37/par-2 The Young-Old Payment Adjustment Amount prescribed in the preceding paragraph is the amount calculated for each of the Insurers pursuant to the provisions of Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare by taking into consideration the interest arising from the excess or deficiency between the estimated Young-Old Payments and the fixed Young-Old Payments pertaining to all of the Insurers in the fiscal year before the previous fiscal year and other circumstances. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-37/par-1: 前条第一項 → 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 第三十六条第一項 (Article 36, paragraph (1)), art-36/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/elderly-medical-care-act/art-36/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-36/par-1 - art-37/par-2: 前項 → 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 第三十七条第一項 (Article 37, paragraph (1)), art-37/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/elderly-medical-care-act/art-37/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-37/par-1 ## Cited by 7 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 国民健康保険法 附則第三条第一項第二号イ — https://japanlaw.org/en/national-health-insurance-act/suppl-4241-28/art-3/par-1/item-2/sub-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/333AC0000000192/suppl-4241-28/art-3/par-1/item-2/sub-1 - 国民健康保険法 附則第三条第一項第二号ロ — https://japanlaw.org/en/national-health-insurance-act/suppl-4241-28/art-3/par-1/item-2/sub-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/333AC0000000192/suppl-4241-28/art-3/par-1/item-2/sub-2 - 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 第三十七条第二項（前期高齢者納付金の額） — https://japanlaw.org/en/elderly-medical-care-act/art-37/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-37/par-2 - 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 第三十八条第一項（概算前期高齢者納付金） — https://japanlaw.org/en/elderly-medical-care-act/art-38/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-38/par-1 - 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 第三十九条第一項（確定前期高齢者納付金） — https://japanlaw.org/en/elderly-medical-care-act/art-39/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-39/par-1 - 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 附則第三十条第二項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/elderly-medical-care-act/suppl-4271-31/art-30/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/suppl-4271-31/art-30/par-2 - 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 附則第三十一条第二項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/elderly-medical-care-act/suppl-4271-31/art-31/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/suppl-4271-31/art-31/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 - claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch elderly-medical-care-act-20261019T112331-001, 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