# 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 / Act on Assurance of Medical Care for Elderly People — 第十六条 (Article 16) - 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: 第十六条 (Article 16)（医療費適正化計画の作成等のための調査及び分析等） — address `art-16` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/art-16 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-16 - 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. --- ### 第十六条（医療費適正化計画の作成等のための調査及び分析等） — (Investigation and Analysis for the Preparation of Plans for Regulating Medical Expenses) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-16 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/art-16 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-16 **第一項** 厚生労働大臣は、全国医療費適正化計画及び都道府県医療費適正化計画の作成、実施及び評価に資するため、次に掲げる事項に関する情報（以下「医療保険等関連情報」という。）について調査及び分析を行い、その結果を公表するものとする。 art-16/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/art-16/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-16/par-1 The Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare is to investigate and analyze data concerning the following particulars (hereinafter referred to as "medical insurance-related data"), and publicize the results thereof, for the purpose of contributing to the preparation, implementation, and evaluation of the national plan for regulating medical expenses and the prefectural plan for regulating medical expenses: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **一** 医療に要する費用に関する地域別、年齢別又は疾病別の状況その他の厚生労働省令で定める事項 art-16/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/art-16/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-16/par-1/item-1 the status of expenses required for medical care by area, age group, or disease, 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: "the status of expenses required for medical care by area, age group, or disease, 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 **二** 医療の提供に関する地域別の病床数の推移の状況その他の厚生労働省令で定める事項 art-16/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/art-16/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-16/par-1/item-2 the status of changes in the number of beds concerning the provision of medical care by area and other particulars specified by the Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 保険者及び後期高齢者医療広域連合は、厚生労働大臣に対し、医療保険等関連情報を、厚生労働省令で定める方法により提供しなければならない。 art-16/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/art-16/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-16/par-2 Insurers and Associations of Medical Care Systems for the Elderly Aged 75 and older must provide the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare with medical insurance-related information by the method specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare. machine translation, not official **第三項** 厚生労働大臣は、必要があると認めるときは、都道府県、市町村その他厚生労働省令で定める者に対し、医療保険等関連情報を、厚生労働省令で定める方法により提供するよう求めることができる。 art-16/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/art-16/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-16/par-3 The Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare, when finding it necessary, may request a prefecture, municipality, or any other person specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare to provide medical insurance-related information by a method 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: "The Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare, when finding it necessary, may request a prefecture, municipality, or any other person specified by Order of the Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare to provide medical insurance-related information by a method specified by Order of the Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare." — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4903/tb ## Cited by 6 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 健康保険法 第百五十条第四項（保健事業及び福祉事業） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/art-150/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-150/par-4 - 健康保険法 第百八十八条第一項（準用） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/art-188/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-188/par-1 - 国民健康保険法 第八十二条第四項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/national-health-insurance-act/art-82/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/333AC0000000192/art-82/par-4 - 国民健康保険法 第八十六条第一項（準用規定） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/national-health-insurance-act/art-86/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/333AC0000000192/art-86/par-1 - 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 第四条第二項（地方公共団体の責務） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/art-4/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-4/par-2 - 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 第十七条第一項（機構等への委託） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/art-17/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-17/par-1 --- ## 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 16, paragraph (1), item (i) — the Ministry of Justice's English as printed (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 16, paragraph (3) — the Ministry of Justice's English as printed (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-20261019T112331-001, 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