# 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 / Act on Assurance of Medical Care for Elderly People — 第六十一条 (Article 61) - 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: 第六十一条 (Article 61)（診療録の提示等） — address `art-61` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/art-61 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-61 - 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. --- ### 第六十一条（診療録の提示等） — (Presentation of Medical Records) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-61 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/art-61 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-61 **第一項** 厚生労働大臣又は都道府県知事は、後期高齢者医療給付に関して必要があると認めるときは、医師、歯科医師、薬剤師若しくは手当を行つた者又はこれを使用する者に対し、その行つた診療、薬剤の支給又は手当に関し、報告若しくは診療録、帳簿書類その他の物件の提示を命じ、又は当該職員に質問させることができる。 art-61/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/art-61/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-61/par-1 The Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare or the prefectural governor, when finding it necessary in relation to a medical care benefit for the old-old, may order physicians, dentists, pharmacists, or persons who provided medical care or those who employ them to make a report or present medical records, books and documents, and other objects, or may have their personnel question them, with regard to the medical care, provision of drugs, or medical treatment provided by them. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 厚生労働大臣又は都道府県知事は、必要があると認めるときは、療養の給付又は入院時食事療養費、入院時生活療養費、保険外併用療養費、療養費、訪問看護療養費若しくは特別療養費の支給を受けた被保険者又は被保険者であつた者に対し、当該療養の給付若しくは入院時食事療養費、入院時生活療養費、保険外併用療養費、療養費、訪問看護療養費若しくは特別療養費の支給に係る診療、調剤又は指定訪問看護の内容に関し、報告を命じ、又は当該職員に質問させることができる。 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 The Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare or the prefectural governor may, when finding it necessary, order an insured or a former insured that received payment of benefits for medical treatment, or expenses for dietary treatment for inpatients, expenses for living support for inpatients, medical expenses combined with treatment outside insurance coverage, medical expenses, medical expenses for home-nursing, or special medical expenses to make a report or have their official ask questions about the content of medical care, prescription or designated home-nursing pertaining to the payment of the benefits for medical treatment, or expenses for dietary treatment for inpatients, expenses for living support for inpatients, medical expenses combined with treatment outside insurance coverage, medical expenses, medical expenses for home-nursing, or special medical expenses. 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 or the prefectural governor may, when finding it necessary, order a insured or a former insured that received payment of benefits for medical treatment, or expenses for dietary treatment for inpatients, expenses for living support for inpatients, medical expenses combined with treatment outside insurance coverage, medical expenses, medical expenses for home-nursing, or special medical expenses to make a report or have their official ask questions about the content of medical care, prescription or designated home-nursing pertaining to the payment of the benefits for medical treatment, or expenses for dietary treatment for inpatients, expenses for living support for inpatients, medical expenses combined with treatment outside insurance coverage, medical expenses, medical expenses for home-nursing, or special medical expenses." — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4903/tb **第三項** 第十六条の七第二項の規定は前二項の規定による質問について、同条第三項の規定は前二項の規定による権限について、それぞれ準用する。 art-61/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/art-61/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-61/par-3 The provisions of Article 16-7, paragraph (2) apply mutatis mutandis to questions pursuant to the provisions of the preceding two paragraphs, and the provisions of paragraph (3) of the same Article apply mutatis mutandis to the authority granted pursuant to the provisions of the preceding two paragraphs. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-61/par-3: 第十六条の七第二項 → 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 第十六条の七第二項 (Article 16-7, paragraph (2)), art-16-7/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/art-16-7/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-16-7/par-2 - art-61/par-3: 前二項 → 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 第六十一条第一項 (Article 61, paragraph (1)), art-61/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/art-61/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-61/par-1 - art-61/par-3: 前二項 → 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-61/par-3: 同条第三項 → 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 第十六条の七第三項 (Article 16-7, paragraph (3)), art-16-7/par-3 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/art-16-7/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-16-7/par-3 ## Cited by 4 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 第六十一条第三項（診療録の提示等） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/art-61/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-61/par-3 - 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 第百六十五条第一項（事務の区分） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/art-165/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-165/par-1 - 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 第百六十九条第一項第二号 — 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 - 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 第百七十条第二項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/art-170/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-170/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 61, paragraph (2) — 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