# 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 / Act on Assurance of Medical Care for Elderly People — 第二条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 2) - 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: 第二条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 2)（病床転換助成事業） — address `suppl-3571-80/art-2` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/suppl-3571-80/art-2 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/suppl-3571-80/art-2 - 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. --- ### 第二条（病床転換助成事業） — (Sickbed Conversion promotion services) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System suppl-3571-80/art-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/suppl-3571-80/art-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/suppl-3571-80/art-2 **第一項** 都道府県は、政令で定める日までの間、当該都道府県における医療費適正化を推進するため、当該都道府県の区域内にある保険医療機関（医療法人その他の厚生労働省令で定める者が開設するものに限る。）に対し、当該保険医療機関である病院又は診療所の開設者が行う病床の転換（医療法第七条第二項各号に掲げる病床の種別のうち厚生労働省令で定めるものの病床数を減少させるとともに、介護保険法第八条第二十九項に規定する介護医療院その他の厚生労働省令で定める施設について新設又は増設により、病床の減少数に相当する数の範囲内において入所定員を増加させることをいう。以下同じ。）に要する費用を助成する事業（以下「病床転換助成事業」という。）を行うものとする。 suppl-3571-80/art-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/suppl-3571-80/art-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/suppl-3571-80/art-2/par-1 Until the date specified by Cabinet Order, a prefecture is to carry out a project (hereinafter referred to as "sickbed conversion promotion services") to subsidize the expenses required for a conversion of beds (meaning reducing the number of beds of the type specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare among the types of beds listed in the items of Article 7, paragraph (2) of the Medical Care Act, while increasing the maximum number of persons who may be admitted, by new establishment or expansion, to a long-term care medical institution prescribed in Article 8, paragraph (29) of the Long-Term Care Insurance Act or another facility specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, within a number equivalent to the number of reduced beds; the same applies hereinafter) carried out by the establisher of the hospital or clinic that is a medical institution providing services covered by health insurance, with regard to a medical institution providing services covered by health insurance in the area of the prefecture (limited to one established by a medical corporation or another person specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare), in order to promote the optimization of medical expenses in the prefecture. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - suppl-3571-80/art-2/par-1: 医療法第七条第二項 → 医療法 第七条第二項 (Article 7, paragraph (2)), art-7/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/art-7/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-7/par-2 - suppl-3571-80/art-2/par-1: 介護保険法第八条第二十九項 → 介護保険法 第八条第二十九項 (Article 8, paragraph (29)), art-8/par-29 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-8/par-29 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-8/par-29 ## Cited by 2 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 附則第十二条第一項（厚生労働省令への委任） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/suppl-3571-80/art-12/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/suppl-3571-80/art-12/par-1 - 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 附則第十三条第一項（前期高齢者交付金及び前期高齢者納付金の額の算定の特例） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/suppl-3571-80/art-13/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/suppl-3571-80/art-13/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 - claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch elderly-medical-care-act-20261019T220629-001, 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