# 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 / Act on Assurance of Medical Care for Elderly People — 第八十一条 (Article 81) - 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: 第八十一条 (Article 81)（報告等） — address `art-81` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/art-81 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-81 - 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. --- ### 第八十一条（報告等） — (Reports) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-81 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/art-81 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-81 **第一項** 厚生労働大臣又は都道府県知事は、訪問看護療養費の支給に関して必要があると認めるときは、指定訪問看護事業者又は指定訪問看護事業者であつた者若しくは当該指定に係る事業所の看護師その他の従業者であつた者（以下この項において「指定訪問看護事業者であつた者等」という。）に対し、報告若しくは帳簿書類の提出若しくは提示を命じ、指定訪問看護事業者若しくは当該指定に係る事業所の看護師その他の従業者若しくは指定訪問看護事業者であつた者等に対し出頭を求め、又は当該職員に関係者に対して質問させ、若しくは当該指定訪問看護事業者の当該指定に係る事業所について帳簿書類その他の物件を検査させることができる。 art-81/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/art-81/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-81/par-1 When the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare or the prefectural governor finds it necessary in relation to the payment of medical expenses for home-nursing, the Minister or the governor may order a designated home-nursing provider, a person that was a designated home-nursing provider, or a person that was a nurse or other employee at the office relevant to the designation (hereinafter referred to as a "person that was a designated home-nursing provider, etc." in this paragraph) to make a report, submit or present books and documents, request the appearance of a designated home-nursing provider, a nurse or other employee at the office relevant to the designation, or a person that was a designated home-nursing provider, etc., or have their official question the persons concerned or inspect the books, documents, and other articles of the designated home-nursing provider at the office relevant to the designation. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 第十六条の七第二項の規定は前項の規定による質問又は検査について、同条第三項の規定は前項の規定による権限について、それぞれ準用する。 art-81/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/art-81/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-81/par-2 The provisions of Article 16-7, paragraph (2) apply mutatis mutandis to questions and inspections pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph, and the provisions of paragraph (3) of the same Article apply mutatis mutandis to the authority granted pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第三項** 都道府県知事は、指定訪問看護事業者につきこの法律の規定による指定訪問看護に関し健康保険法第九十五条の規定による処分が行われる必要があると認めるときは、理由を付して、その旨を厚生労働大臣に通知しなければならない。 art-81/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/art-81/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-81/par-3 If a prefectural governor finds it necessary for a designated home-nursing provider to be subject to a disposition under the provisions of Article 95 of the Health Insurance Act with regard to designated home-nursing under the provisions of this Act, the governor must notify the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare to that effect by giving the reason therefor. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-81/par-1: この項 → 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 第八十一条第一項 (Article 81, paragraph (1)), art-81/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/art-81/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-81/par-1 - art-81/par-2: 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-81/par-2: 前項 → 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 第八十一条第一項 (Article 81, paragraph (1)), art-81/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/art-81/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-81/par-1 - art-81/par-2: 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 - art-81/par-3: 健康保険法第九十五条 → 健康保険法 第九十五条 (Article 95), art-95 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/art-95 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-95 ## 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 第八十一条第一項（報告等） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/art-81/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-81/par-1 - 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 第八十一条第二項（報告等） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/art-81/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-81/par-2 - 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 第八十二条第六項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/art-82/par-6 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-82/par-6 - 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 --- ## 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