# 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 / Act on Assurance of Medical Care for Elderly People — 第九十一条 (Article 91) - 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: 第九十一条 (Article 91) — address `art-91` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/art-91 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-91 - 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. --- ### 第九十一条 art-91 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/art-91 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-91 **第一項** 後期高齢者医療広域連合は、被保険者若しくは被保険者であつた者又は後期高齢者医療給付を受ける者が、正当な理由がなく第六十条の規定による命令に従わず、又は答弁若しくは受診を拒んだときは、療養の給付等の全部又は一部を行わないことができる。 art-91/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/art-91/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-91/par-1 When a person who is or was an insured or a person who receives an old-old medical care benefit fails to comply with an order pursuant to the provisions of Article 60 or refuses to answer questions or undergo a medical examination without justifiable grounds, the Association of Medical Care Systems for the Elderly Aged 75 and older may refrain from providing benefits for medical treatment, etc., in whole or in part. Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "When a person who is or was a insured or insured or a person who receives an old-old medical care benefit fails to comply with an order pursuant to the provisions of Article 60 or refuses to answer questions or undergo a medical examination without justifiable grounds, the Association of Medical Care Systems for the Elderly Aged 75 and older may refrain from providing benefits for medical treatment, etc., in whole or in part." — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4903/tb --- ## Cites - art-91/par-1: 第六十条 → 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 第六十条 (Article 60), art-60 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/art-60 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-60 --- ## 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 91, paragraph (1) — 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