# 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 / Act on Assurance of Medical Care for Elderly People — 第十一条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 11) - 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: 第十一条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 11) — address `suppl-4141-102/art-11` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/elderly-medical-care-act/suppl-4141-102/art-11 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/suppl-4141-102/art-11 - 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. --- ### 第十一条 suppl-4141-102/art-11 · https://japanlaw.org/en/elderly-medical-care-act/suppl-4141-102/art-11 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/suppl-4141-102/art-11 **第一項** 新老健法第四十八条から第五十条までの規定は、施行日以後に行われる新老健法の規定による医療（医療費の支給を含む。）、入院時食事療養費の支給（医療費の支給を含む。）、特定療養費の支給（医療費の支給を含む。）、老人訪問看護療養費の支給、移送費の支給及び高額医療費の支給（以下「医療等」と総称する。）に要する費用並びにこれらの事業に関する事務の執行に要する費用について適用し、施行日前に行われた旧老健法の規定による医療等に要する費用及びこれらの事業に関する事務の執行に要する費用については、なお従前の例による。 suppl-4141-102/art-11/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/elderly-medical-care-act/suppl-4141-102/art-11/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/suppl-4141-102/art-11/par-1 The provisions of Article 48 through Article 50 of the New Elderly Health Act apply to the expenses required for medical care (including payment of medical expenses), payment of dietary treatment expenses for inpatients (including payment of medical expenses), payment of specified medical expenses (including payment of medical expenses), payment of medical expenses for home-nursing for the elderly, payment of transport expenses and payment of high-cost medical expenses (hereinafter collectively referred to as "medical care, etc.") under the provisions of the New Elderly Health Act provided on or after the Effective Date, and to the expenses required for the execution of affairs concerning those services, and with regard to the expenses required for medical care, etc. under the provisions of the Former Elderly Health Act provided before the Effective Date and the expenses required for the execution of affairs concerning those services, the provisions then in force continue to govern. machine translation, not official ## 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 附則第三十六条第一項（政令への委任） — https://japanlaw.org/en/elderly-medical-care-act/suppl-4141-102/art-36/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/suppl-4141-102/art-36/par-1 --- ## 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-20261019T102707-017, 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