# 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 / Act on Assurance of Medical Care for Elderly People — 第六十五条 (Article 65) - 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: 第六十五条 (Article 65)（保険医療機関等の責務） — address `art-65` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/elderly-medical-care-act/art-65 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-65 - 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. --- ### 第六十五条（保険医療機関等の責務） — (Responsibilities of Medical Institutions Providing Services Covered by Health Insurance) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-65 · https://japanlaw.org/en/elderly-medical-care-act/art-65 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-65 **第一項** 保険医療機関等又は保険医等（健康保険法第六十四条に規定する保険医又は保険薬剤師をいう。以下同じ。）は、第七十一条第一項の療養の給付の取扱い及び担当に関する基準に従い、後期高齢者医療の療養の給付を取り扱い、又は担当しなければならない。 art-65/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/elderly-medical-care-act/art-65/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-65/par-1 A medical institution providing services covered by health insurance, etc. or a physician providing health insurance treatment, etc. (meaning a physician providing health insurance treatment or pharmacist filling health insurance prescriptions as prescribed in Article 64 of the Health Insurance Act; the same applies hereinafter) must handle or take charge of medical treatment benefits for medical care for elderly people in accordance with the standards for handling and taking charge of medical treatment benefits as set forth in Article 71, paragraph (1). Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-65/par-1: 健康保険法第六十四条 → 健康保険法 第六十四条 (Article 64), art-64 — https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/art-64 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-64 - art-65/par-1: 第七十一条第一項 → 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 第七十一条第一項 (Article 71, paragraph (1)), art-71/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/elderly-medical-care-act/art-71/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-71/par-1 ## 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 第八十二条第六項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/elderly-medical-care-act/art-82/par-6 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-82/par-6 --- ## 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