# 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 / Act on Assurance of Medical Care for Elderly People — 第五十六条 (Article 56) - 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: 第五十六条 (Article 56)（後期高齢者医療給付の種類） — address `art-56` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/elderly-medical-care-act/art-56 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-56 - 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. --- ### 第五十六条（後期高齢者医療給付の種類） — (Types of medical care benefit for Old-Old Persons) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-56 · https://japanlaw.org/en/elderly-medical-care-act/art-56 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-56 **第一項** 被保険者に係るこの法律による給付（以下「後期高齢者医療給付」という。）は、次のとおりとする。 art-56/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/elderly-medical-care-act/art-56/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-56/par-1 The benefits under this Act pertaining to an insured (hereinafter referred to as an "old-old medical care benefit") are as follows: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **一** 療養の給付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、療養費、訪問看護療養費、特別療養費及び移送費の支給 art-56/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/elderly-medical-care-act/art-56/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-56/par-1/item-1 benefits for medical treatment, and payment of dietary treatment expenses for inpatients, living support expenses for inpatients, medical expenses combined with treatment outside insurance coverage, medical expenses, medical expenses for home-nursing, special medical expenses, and transport expenses; Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **二** 高額療養費及び高額介護合算療養費の支給 art-56/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/elderly-medical-care-act/art-56/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-56/par-1/item-2 payment of high-cost medical expenses and Sizable medical and nursing expenses; Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **三** 前二号に掲げるもののほか、後期高齢者医療広域連合の条例で定めるところにより行う給付 art-56/par-1/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/elderly-medical-care-act/art-56/par-1/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-56/par-1/item-3 beyond what is set forth in the preceding two items, benefits provided pursuant to the provisions of Ordinance of the Association of Medical Care Systems for the Elderly Aged 75 and older. Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "beyond what is set forth in the preceding two items, benefits provided pursuant to the provisions of Prefectural or Municipal Ordinance of the Association of Medical Care Systems for the Elderly Aged 75 and older." — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4903/tb --- ## Cites - art-56/par-1/item-3: 前二号 → 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 第五十六条第一項第一号 (Article 56, paragraph (1), item (i)), art-56/par-1/item-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/elderly-medical-care-act/art-56/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-56/par-1/item-1 - art-56/par-1/item-3: 前二号 → 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 第五十六条第一項第二号 (Article 56, paragraph (1), item (ii)), art-56/par-1/item-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/elderly-medical-care-act/art-56/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-56/par-1/item-2 ## Cited by 6 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 住民基本台帳法 別表第二 — https://japanlaw.org/en/residential-basic-book-act/appdx-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/342AC0000000081/appdx-2 - 住民基本台帳法 別表第四 — https://japanlaw.org/en/residential-basic-book-act/appdx-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/342AC0000000081/appdx-4 - 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 第五十六条第一項第三号（後期高齢者医療給付の種類） — https://japanlaw.org/en/elderly-medical-care-act/art-56/par-1/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-56/par-1/item-3 - 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 第百三十三条第二項（都道府県の助言等） — https://japanlaw.org/en/elderly-medical-care-act/art-133/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-133/par-2 - 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 第百六十五条の二第一項第一号（機構等への事務の委託） — https://japanlaw.org/en/elderly-medical-care-act/art-165-2/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-165-2/par-1/item-1 - 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 第百六十五条の二第一項第二号（機構等への事務の委託） — https://japanlaw.org/en/elderly-medical-care-act/art-165-2/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-165-2/par-1/item-2 --- ## 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 56, paragraph (1), item (iii) — the Ministry of Justice's English as printed (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