# 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 / Act on Assurance of Medical Care for Elderly People — 第十五条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 15)

- 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
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- Provision: 第十五条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 15) — address `suppl-4221-35/art-15`
- Text in force since: 2026-10-01
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### 第十五条
<sup>suppl-4221-35/art-15 · https://japanlaw.org/en/elderly-medical-care-act/suppl-4221-35/art-15 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/suppl-4221-35/art-15</sup>

**第一項**  平成二十二年度の被用者保険等保険者に係る概算後期高齢者支援金の額は、改正後高齢者医療確保法附則第十四条の三第一項の規定にかかわらず、同項の規定により算定される額の十二分の八に相当する額と同年度において同条の規定の適用がないものとして改正後高齢者医療確保法第百二十条の規定を当該被用者保険等保険者に適用するとしたならば同条第一項の規定により算定されることとなる額の十二分の四に相当する額との合計額とする。
<sup>suppl-4221-35/art-15/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/elderly-medical-care-act/suppl-4221-35/art-15/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/suppl-4221-35/art-15/par-1</sup>
Notwithstanding Article 14-3, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions of the Amended Elderly Medical Care Assurance Act, the amount of the estimated aid for the old-old pertaining to Insurers of employee insurance, etc. for fiscal year 2010 is the sum total of the amount equivalent to 8/12 of the amount calculated pursuant to the provisions of that paragraph and the amount equivalent to 4/12 of the amount that would be calculated pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (1) of Article 120 of the Amended Elderly Medical Care Assurance Act if the provisions of that Article were applied to the insurer of employee insurance, etc. concerned on the assumption that the provisions of Article 14-3 of the Supplementary Provisions of the Amended Elderly Medical Care Assurance Act did not apply in that fiscal year.
<sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

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## Cites
- suppl-4221-35/art-15/par-1: 改正後高齢者医療確保法第百二十条 → 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 第百二十条 (Article 120), art-120 — https://japanlaw.org/en/elderly-medical-care-act/art-120 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-120
- suppl-4221-35/art-15/par-1: 同条第一項 → 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 第百二十条第一項 (Article 120, paragraph (1)), art-120/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/elderly-medical-care-act/art-120/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-120/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 附則第一条第一項（施行期日） — https://japanlaw.org/en/elderly-medical-care-act/suppl-4221-35/art-1/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/suppl-4221-35/art-1/par-1

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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-20261019T112331-020, 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
