# 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 / Act on Assurance of Medical Care for Elderly People — 第百五十七条の二 (Article 157-2) - 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: 第百五十七条の二 (Article 157-2)（保険者協議会） — address `art-157-2` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/art-157-2 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-157-2 - 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. --- ### 第百五十七条の二（保険者協議会） — (Insurer Council) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-157-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/art-157-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-157-2 **第一項** 保険者及び後期高齢者医療広域連合は、共同して、加入者の高齢期における健康の保持及び医療費適正化のために必要な事業の推進並びに高齢者医療制度の円滑な運営及び当該運営への協力のため、都道府県ごとに、保険者協議会を組織する。 art-157-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/art-157-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-157-2/par-1 For each prefecture, Insurers and Association of Medical Care Systems for the Elderly Aged 75 and older are to jointly establish a Council of Insurers in order to promote necessary projects for the maintenance of the health of subscribers in old age and the optimization of medical expenses as well as to ensure the smooth operation of the medical care system for the elderly and cooperation in the operation. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 前項の保険者協議会は、次に掲げる業務を行う。 art-157-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/art-157-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-157-2/par-2 The insurer council referred to in the preceding paragraph performs the following services: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **一** 特定健康診査等の実施、高齢者医療制度の運営その他の事項に関する保険者その他の関係者間の連絡調整 art-157-2/par-2/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/art-157-2/par-2/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-157-2/par-2/item-1 liaison and coordination among insurers and other relevant persons concerning the implementation of Special health examinations, etc., the operation of the medical care system for the elderly, and other matters; Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **二** 保険者に対する必要な助言又は援助 art-157-2/par-2/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/art-157-2/par-2/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-157-2/par-2/item-2 necessary advice or assistance to the insurer; Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **三** 医療に要する費用その他の厚生労働省令で定める事項に関する情報についての調査及び分析 art-157-2/par-2/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/art-157-2/par-2/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-157-2/par-2/item-3 investigating and analyzing information on the expenses required for medical services and other particulars specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare; Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "investigating and analyzing information on the expenses required for medical services and other particulars specified by Order of the Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare;" — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4903/tb **四** 都道府県医療費適正化計画の実績の評価に関する調査及び分析 art-157-2/par-2/item-4 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/art-157-2/par-2/item-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-157-2/par-2/item-4 investigation and analysis concerning the evaluation of the performance of the prefectural plan for regulating medical expenses. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第三項** 厚生労働大臣は、保険者協議会が前項各号に掲げる業務を円滑に行うため必要な支援を行うものとする。 art-157-2/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/art-157-2/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-157-2/par-3 The Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare is to provide necessary support to ensure that the Council of Insurers smoothly carries out the services set forth in the items of the preceding paragraph. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-157-2/par-2: 前項 → 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 第百五十七条の二第一項 (Article 157-2, paragraph (1)), art-157-2/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/art-157-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-157-2/par-1 - art-157-2/par-3: 前項 → 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 第百五十七条の二第二項 (Article 157-2, paragraph (2)), art-157-2/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/art-157-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-157-2/par-2 ## Cited by 5 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 医療法 第三十条の四第十七項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/art-30-4/par-17 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-30-4/par-17 - 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 第九条第七項（都道府県医療費適正化計画） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/art-9/par-7 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-9/par-7 - 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 第百五十七条の二第二項（保険者協議会） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/art-157-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-157-2/par-2 - 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 第百五十七条の二第三項（保険者協議会） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/art-157-2/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-157-2/par-3 - 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 附則第二十六条第二項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/suppl-4271-31/art-26/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/suppl-4271-31/art-26/par-2 --- ## Sources - claude-opus-5-5 — Corrections to the Ministry of Justice's English of 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律, written 2026-10-19 - 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 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Act on Assurance of Medical Care for Elderly People (高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律), Article 157-2, paragraph (2), item (iii) — the Ministry of Justice's English as printed (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4903/tb), retrieved 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