# 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 / Act on Assurance of Medical Care for Elderly People — 第百三十一条 (Article 131) - 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: 第百三十一条 (Article 131)（高齢者保健事業等に関する援助等） — address `art-131` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/art-131 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-131 - 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. --- ### 第百三十一条（高齢者保健事業等に関する援助等） — (Assistance for Healthcare Services for the Elderly) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-131 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/art-131 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-131 **第一項** 国保連合会及び指定法人は、後期高齢者医療の運営の安定化を図るため、後期高齢者医療広域連合が行う高齢者保健事業及び第百二十五条第五項に規定する事業、後期高齢者医療給付に要する費用の適正化のための事業その他の事業（以下この条において「高齢者保健事業等」という。）に関する調査研究及び高齢者保健事業等の実施に係る後期高齢者医療広域連合間（国保連合会においては、後期高齢者医療広域連合と当該後期高齢者医療広域連合から第百二十五条の二第一項前段の規定により委託を受けた市町村との間及び当該委託を受けた市町村間を含む。）の連絡調整を行うとともに、高齢者保健事業等に関し、専門的な技術又は知識を有する者の派遣、情報の提供、高齢者保健事業等の実施状況の分析及び評価その他の必要な援助を行うよう努めなければならない。 art-131/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/art-131/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-131/par-1 The NHI federation and designated corporations, in order to ensure the stability of the operation of Old-old Medical Care, in addition to conducting research and study on health services for the elderly conducted by an Association of Medical Care Systems for the Elderly Aged 75 and older, the services prescribed in Article 125, paragraph (5), services for the optimization of expenses required for old-old medical care benefit, and other services (hereinafter referred to as "health services for the elderly, etc." in this Article), and liaison and coordination among the Associations in relation to the implementation of health services for the elderly, etc. (in the case of the NHI federation, including between an Association and a municipality entrusted by that Association pursuant to the provisions of the first sentence of Article 125-2, paragraph (1), and among municipalities so entrusted), must endeavor to dispatch persons with specialized technology or knowledge, provide information, analyze and evaluate the status of implementation of health services for the elderly, etc., and provide other necessary assistance in relation to health services for the elderly, etc. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - art-131/par-1: 第百二十五条第五項 → 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 第百二十五条第五項 (Article 125, paragraph (5)), art-125/par-5 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/art-125/par-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-125/par-5 - art-131/par-1: この条 → 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 第百三十一条 (Article 131), art-131 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/art-131 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-131 - art-131/par-1: 第百二十五条の二第一項 → 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 第百二十五条の二第一項 (Article 125-2, paragraph (1)), art-125-2/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/art-125-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-125-2/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 第百三十一条第一項（高齢者保健事業等に関する援助等） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/art-131/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-131/par-1 - 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 第百三十二条第一項（国及び地方公共団体の措置） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/art-132/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-132/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-20261019T105826-005, 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