# 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 / Act on Assurance of Medical Care for Elderly People — 第八十三条 (Article 83) - 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: 第八十三条 (Article 83) — address `art-83` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/art-83 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-83 - 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. --- ### 第八十三条 art-83 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/art-83 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-83 **第一項** 後期高齢者医療広域連合は、被保険者が療養の給付（保険外併用療養費に係る療養及び特別療養費に係る療養を含む。）を受けるため病院又は診療所に移送されたときは、当該被保険者に対し、移送費として、厚生労働省令で定めるところにより算定した額を支給する。 art-83/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/art-83/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-83/par-1 When an insured has been transferred to a hospital or clinic in order to receive medical treatment (including medical treatment covered by medical expenses combined with treatment outside insurance coverage and medical treatment covered by special medical expenses), the Association of Medical Care Systems for the Elderly Aged 75 and older pays, as transport expenses, an amount calculated pursuant to the provisions of Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare to the insured. Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "When an insured has been transferred to a hospital or clinic in order to receive medical treatment (including medical treatment covered by medical expenses combined with treatment outside insurance coverage and medical treatment covered by special medical expenses), the Association of Medical Care Systems for the Elderly Aged 75 and older pays, as transport expenses, an amount calculated pursuant to the provisions of Order of the Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare to the insured." — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4903/tb **第二項** 前項の移送費は、厚生労働省令で定めるところにより、後期高齢者医療広域連合が必要であると認める場合に限り、支給するものとする。 art-83/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/art-83/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-83/par-2 The transport expenses referred to in the preceding paragraph are to be paid only if the Association of Medical Care Systems for the Elderly Aged 75 and older finds it necessary pursuant to the provisions of 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 transport expenses referred to in the preceding paragraph are to be paid only if the Association of Medical Care Systems for the Elderly Aged 75 and older finds it necessary pursuant to the provisions of Order of the Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare." — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4903/tb --- ## Cites - art-83/par-2: 前項 → 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 第八十三条第一項 (Article 83, paragraph (1)), art-83/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/art-83/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-83/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 第八十三条第二項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/art-83/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-83/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 83, paragraph (1) — 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 83, 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