# 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 / Act on Assurance of Medical Care for Elderly People — 第七条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 7)

- 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: 第七条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 7)（病床転換支援金の徴収及び納付義務） — address `suppl-3571-80/art-7`
- 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-7
- Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/suppl-3571-80/art-7
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### 第七条（病床転換支援金の徴収及び納付義務） — (Collection and Payment Obligation of Ward Transfer Support Grants)
<sup>caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System</sup>
<sup>suppl-3571-80/art-7 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/suppl-3571-80/art-7 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/suppl-3571-80/art-7</sup>

**第一項**  機構は、附則第十一条第一項に規定する業務及び当該業務に関する事務の処理に要する費用に充てるため、年度ごとに、保険者（国民健康保険にあつては、都道府県。附則第九条の二第四項を除き、以下同じ。）から病床転換支援金及び病床転換助成関係事務費拠出金（以下「病床転換支援金等」という。）を徴収する。
<sup>suppl-3571-80/art-7/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/suppl-3571-80/art-7/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/suppl-3571-80/art-7/par-1</sup>
The Organization collects bed conversion support payments and contributions for administrative expenses related to bed conversion subsidies (hereinafter referred to as "bed conversion support payment, etc.") from Insurers (in the case of National Health Insurance, the prefecture; the same applies hereinafter, except in Article 9-2, paragraph (4) of the Supplementary Provisions) each fiscal year in order to cover the expenses required for the services prescribed in Article 11, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions and for the handling of affairs relating to the services.
<sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

**第二項**  保険者は、病床転換支援金等を納付する義務を負う。
<sup>suppl-3571-80/art-7/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/suppl-3571-80/art-7/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/suppl-3571-80/art-7/par-2</sup>
An insurer has the obligation to pay a ward transfer support grant, etc.
<sup>Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System</sup>

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## Cites
- suppl-3571-80/art-7/par-1: 附則第十一条第一項 → 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 附則第十一条第一項 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 11, paragraph (1)), suppl-3571-80/art-11/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/suppl-3571-80/art-11/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/suppl-3571-80/art-11/par-1
- suppl-3571-80/art-7/par-1: 附則第九条の二第四項 → 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 附則第九条の二第四項 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 9-2, paragraph (4)), suppl-3571-80/art-9-2/par-4 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/suppl-3571-80/art-9-2/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/suppl-3571-80/art-9-2/par-4

## Cited by

5 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 附則第六条第二項（病床転換助成交付金） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/suppl-3571-80/art-6/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/suppl-3571-80/art-6/par-2
- 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 附則第八条第一項（病床転換支援金の額） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/suppl-3571-80/art-8/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/suppl-3571-80/art-8/par-1
- 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 附則第九条第一項（病床転換助成関係事務費拠出金の額） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/suppl-3571-80/art-9/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/suppl-3571-80/art-9/par-1
- 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 附則第九条の二第一項（機構の納付等） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/suppl-3571-80/art-9-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/suppl-3571-80/art-9-2/par-1
- 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

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## 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-20261019T112331-005, translated 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
