# 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 / Act on Assurance of Medical Care for Elderly People — 第百六十九条 (Article 169) - 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: 第百六十九条 (Article 169) — address `art-169` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/art-169 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-169 - 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. 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They are never merged and never substituted for one another. --- ### 第百六十九条 art-169 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/art-169 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-169 **第一項** 次の各号のいずれかに該当する場合には、その違反行為をした者は、三十万円以下の罰金に処する。 art-169/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/art-169/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-169/par-1 A person who has committed any of the following violations is punished by a fine of not more than 300000 yen: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **一** 審査請求人若しくは関係者又は医師若しくは歯科医師が、正当な理由がなく第百三十条の規定において準用する国民健康保険法第百一条第一項の規定による処分に違反して、出頭せず、陳述をせず、報告をせず、若しくは虚偽の陳述若しくは報告をし、又は診断若しくは検案をしなかつたとき（後期高齢者医療審査会の行う審査の手続における請求人又は第百三十条の規定において準用する同法第百条の規定により通知を受けた後期高齢者医療広域連合その他の利害関係人に係る場合を除く。）。 art-169/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/art-169/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-169/par-1/item-1 when the requestor for review or relevant persons, or a physician or dental practitioner has failed to appear, failed to make a statement, failed to make a report, or made a false statement or report, or failed to make a diagnosis or examination, in violation of the disposition under the provisions of Article 101, paragraph (1) of the National Health Insurance Act as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to the provisions of Article 130, without justifiable grounds (excluding cases pertaining to the requestor in the procedure of review conducted by the Certification Committee for Old-Old Healthcare, or a Association of Medical Care Systems for the Elderly Aged 75 and older or other interested persons who has received a notification pursuant to the provisions of Article 100 of the same Act as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to the provisions of Article 130); Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **二** 被保険者又は被保険者であつた者が、第六十一条第二項の規定により報告を命ぜられ、正当な理由がなくこれに従わず、又は同項の規定による当該職員の質問に対して、正当な理由がなく答弁せず、若しくは虚偽の答弁をしたとき。 art-169/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/art-169/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-169/par-1/item-2 when an insured or a person who used to be an insured fails to comply with an order to make a report issued pursuant to the provisions of Article 61, paragraph (2) without justifiable grounds, or fails to answer a question asked by the relevant official pursuant to the provisions of the same paragraph without justifiable grounds or gives a false answer; Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **三** 正当な理由がなく第百六十一条の三第一項の規定による報告をせず、若しくは虚偽の報告をし、又は同項の規定による当該職員の質問に対して、正当な理由がなく答弁せず、若しくは虚偽の答弁をし、若しくは正当な理由がなく同項の規定による検査を拒み、妨げ、若しくは忌避したとき。 art-169/par-1/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/art-169/par-1/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-169/par-1/item-3 when the person has failed to make a report under the provisions of Article 161-3, paragraph (1) or has made a false report without justifiable grounds, has failed to answer or given a false answer to the questions asked by the relevant official under the provisions of the same paragraph without justifiable grounds, or has refused, obstructed, or avoided the inspection under the provisions of the same paragraph without justifiable grounds. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-169/par-1/item-1: 第百三十条 → 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 第百三十条 (Article 130), art-130 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/art-130 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-130 - art-169/par-1/item-1: 国民健康保険法第百一条第一項 → 国民健康保険法 第百一条第一項 (Article 101, paragraph (1)), art-101/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/national-health-insurance-act/art-101/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/333AC0000000192/art-101/par-1 - art-169/par-1/item-1: 同法第百条 → 国民健康保険法 第百条 (Article 100), art-100 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/national-health-insurance-act/art-100 · https://japanlaw.org/l/333AC0000000192/art-100 - art-169/par-1/item-2: 第六十一条第二項 → 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 第六十一条第二項 (Article 61, paragraph (2)), art-61/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/art-61/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-61/par-2 - art-169/par-1/item-3: 第百六十一条の三第一項 → 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 第百六十一条の三第一項 (Article 161-3, paragraph (1)), art-161-3/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/art-161-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-161-3/par-1 ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 第百六十九条の三第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/art-169-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-169-3/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 - 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