# 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 / Act on Assurance of Medical Care for Elderly People — 第百一条 (Article 101) - 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: 第百一条 (Article 101)（後期高齢者交付金の減額） — address `art-101` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/art-101 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-101 - 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. --- ### 第百一条（後期高齢者交付金の減額） — (Reduction of Old-Old Subsidy) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-101 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/art-101 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-101 **第一項** 厚生労働大臣は、後期高齢者医療広域連合が確保すべき収入を不当に確保しなかつた場合又は後期高齢者医療広域連合が支出すべきでない経費を不当に支出した場合においては、政令で定めるところにより、機構に対し、前条第一項の規定により当該後期高齢者医療広域連合に対して交付する同項の後期高齢者交付金の額を減額することを命ずることができる。 art-101/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/art-101/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-101/par-1 If the Association of Medical Care Systems for the Elderly Aged 75 and older unjustly fails to secure the revenue that it should have secured or unjustly incurs expenses that it should not incur, the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare may, pursuant to the provisions of Cabinet Order, order the Organization to reduce the amount of the Old-Old Subsidy referred to in the same paragraph that is granted to that Association pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (1) of the preceding Article. machine translation, not official **第二項** 前項の規定により減額する額は、不当に確保しなかつた額又は不当に支出した額を超えることができない。 art-101/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/art-101/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-101/par-2 The amount to be reduced pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph may not exceed the amount which has unjustly failed to be secured or the amount which has unjustly been expended. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-101/par-1: 前条第一項 → 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 第百条第一項 (Article 100, paragraph (1)), art-100/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/art-100/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-100/par-1 - art-101/par-2: 前項 → 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 第百一条第一項 (Article 101, paragraph (1)), art-101/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/art-101/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-101/par-1 ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 第百一条第二項（後期高齢者交付金の減額） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/art-101/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-101/par-2 - 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 第百五十三条第一項（医療情報基盤・診療報酬審査支払機構法の適用の特例） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/art-153/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-153/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-20261019T112331-004, 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