# 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 / Act on Assurance of Medical Care for Elderly People — 第十四条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 14)

- 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: 第十四条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 14)（検討） — address `suppl-3611-106/art-14`
- Text in force since: 2026-10-01
- URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/elderly-medical-care-act/suppl-3611-106/art-14
- Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/suppl-3611-106/art-14
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### 第十四条（検討） — Review
<sup>caption: machine translation, not official</sup>
<sup>suppl-3611-106/art-14 · https://japanlaw.org/en/elderly-medical-care-act/suppl-3611-106/art-14 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/suppl-3611-106/art-14</sup>

**第一項**  政府は、この法律の施行後における老人医療費の動向、健康保険組合の決算の状況等各医療保険の運営の状況、老人保健法による医療費拠出金の額の動向等を勘案し、昭和六十五年度までの間に保険者の拠出金の算定方法その他この法律による改正に係る事項に関し検討を行い、その結果に基づいて所要の措置を講ずるものとする。
<sup>suppl-3611-106/art-14/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/elderly-medical-care-act/suppl-3611-106/art-14/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/suppl-3611-106/art-14/par-1</sup>
Taking into consideration the trends in medical expenses for the elderly after the enforcement of this Act, the state of operation of each medical insurance such as the state of settlement of accounts of health insurance societies, the trends in the amount of medical expense contributions under the Act on Health and Medical Services for the Elderly, etc., the government is to conduct a review, by fiscal year 1990, of the method of calculating the contributions of Insurers and other matters concerning the amendments made by this Act, and to take required measures based on the results.
<sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

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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-20261019T112331-008, 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
