# 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 / Act on Assurance of Medical Care for Elderly People — 第五十八条 (Article 58) - 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: 第五十八条 (Article 58)（損害賠償請求権） — address `art-58` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/art-58 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-58 - 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. --- ### 第五十八条（損害賠償請求権） — Right to Claim Damages caption: machine translation, not official art-58 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/art-58 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-58 **第一項** 後期高齢者医療広域連合は、給付事由が第三者の行為によつて生じた場合において、後期高齢者医療給付（前条第二項の規定による差額の支給を含む。以下同じ。）を行つたときは、その後期高齢者医療給付の価額（当該後期高齢者医療給付が療養の給付であるときは、当該療養の給付に要する費用の額から当該療養の給付に関し被保険者が負担しなければならない一部負担金に相当する額を控除した額。次条第一項において同じ。）の限度において、被保険者が第三者に対して有する損害賠償の請求権を取得する。 art-58/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/art-58/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-58/par-1 When the Association of Medical Care Systems for the Elderly Aged 75 and older has provided an old-old medical care benefit (including payment of the difference under the provisions of paragraph (2) of the preceding Article; the same applies hereinafter) in the case where the grounds for the benefit arose from an act of a third party, it acquires the insured's right to claim damages against the third party to the extent of the value of that old-old medical care benefit (where that old-old medical care benefit is benefits for medical treatment, the amount obtained by deducting from the amount of expenses required for those benefits for medical treatment the amount equivalent to the co-payment that the insured must bear in relation to those benefits for medical treatment; the same applies in paragraph (1) of the following Article). machine translation, not official **第二項** 前項の場合において、後期高齢者医療給付を受けるべき者が第三者から同一の事由について損害賠償を受けたときは、後期高齢者医療広域連合は、その価額の限度において、後期高齢者医療給付を行う責めを免れる。 art-58/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/art-58/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-58/par-2 In the case referred to in the preceding paragraph, if a person who is to receive an old-old medical care benefit has received compensation for loss or damage from a third party for the same reason, the Association of Medical Care Systems for the Elderly Aged 75 and older is exempt from the responsibility to provide the old-old medical care benefit to the extent of the amount of the compensation. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第三項** 後期高齢者医療広域連合は、第一項の規定により取得した請求権に係る損害賠償金の徴収又は収納の事務を国保連合会であつて厚生労働省令で定めるものに委託することができる。 art-58/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/art-58/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-58/par-3 A Association of Medical Care Systems for the Elderly Aged 75 and older may entrust its affairs concerning the collection or receipt of compensation for damage pertaining to the right to claim acquired pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (1) to a federation of national health insurance associations specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-58/par-1: 前条第二項 → 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 第五十七条第二項 (Article 57, paragraph (2)), art-57/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/art-57/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-57/par-2 - art-58/par-1: 次条第一項 → 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 第五十九条第一項 (Article 59, paragraph (1)), art-59/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/art-59/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-59/par-1 - art-58/par-2: 前項 → 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 第五十八条第一項 (Article 58, paragraph (1)), art-58/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/art-58/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-58/par-1 - art-58/par-3: 第一項 → 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 第五十八条第一項 (Article 58, paragraph (1)), art-58/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/art-58/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-58/par-1 ## Cited by 3 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 第五十八条第二項（損害賠償請求権） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/art-58/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-58/par-2 - 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 第五十八条第三項（損害賠償請求権） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/art-58/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-58/par-3 - 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 第百五十五条第二項第一号（国保連合会の業務） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/art-155/par-2/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-155/par-2/item-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-20261019T112331-003, translated 2026-10-20 - 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