# 介護保険法 / Long-Term Care Insurance Act — 第百十五条 (Article 115) - Law: 介護保険法 (Long-Term Care Insurance Act), 平成九年法律第百二十三号 - English title "Long-Term Care Insurance Act": 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: 第百十五条 (Article 115)（医療法との関係等） — address `art-115` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-115 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-115 - 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. --- ### 第百十五条（医療法との関係等） — Relationship with the Medical Care Act caption: machine translation, not official art-115 · https://japanlaw.org/en/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-115 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-115 **第一項** 介護医療院は、医療法にいう病院又は診療所ではない。ただし、同法及びこれに基づく命令以外の法令の規定（健康保険法、国民健康保険法その他の法令の政令で定める規定を除く。）において「病院」又は「診療所」とあるのは、介護医療院（政令で定める法令の規定にあっては、政令で定めるものを除く。）を含むものとする。 art-115/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-115/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-115/par-1 An integrated facility for medical and long-term care is not a hospital or a clinic as used in the Medical Care Act, however, provided that the terms "hospital" and "clinic" in the provisions of laws and regulations other than that Act and orders based on it (except for the provisions of the Health Insurance Act, the National Health Insurance Act, and other laws and regulations that are provided by a Cabinet Order) include an integrated facility for medical and long-term care (in the provisions of laws and regulations provided by a Cabinet Order, except for those provided by a Cabinet Order). machine translation, not official **第二項** 介護医療院の開設者は、医療法第三条第一項の規定にかかわらず、当該介護医療院の名称中に介護医療院という文字を用いることができる。 art-115/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-115/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-115/par-2 An Establisher of an integrated facility for medical and long-term care may, notwithstanding the provisions of Article 3, paragraph (1) of the Medical Care Act, use the term "integrated facility for medical and long-term care" in the name of said integrated facility for medical and long-term care. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - art-115/par-2: 医療法第三条第一項 → 医療法 第三条第一項 (Article 3, paragraph (1)), art-3/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/art-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-3/par-1 --- ## Sources - e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 介護保険法 — the text in force from 2026-10-01 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/409AC0000000123/20261001_507AC0000000087), retrieved 2026-10-18 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Long-Term Care Insurance Act — Ministry of Justice translation (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/3807/tb), retrieved 2026-10-18 - claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch long-term-care-insurance-act-20261018T203319-020, translated 2026-10-19 - claude-sonnet-5-5, corrected on review by claude-opus-5-5 — Machine translation corrected on review, batch long-term-care-insurance-act-20261018T203319-020, translated 2026-10-19 - This site's parser, version 209 — 介護保険法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-18