# 健康保険法 / Health Insurance Act — 第十九条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 19) - Law: 健康保険法 (Health Insurance Act), 大正十一年法律第七十号 - English title "Health Insurance Act": 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: 第十九条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 19)（健康保険法の一部改正に伴う経過措置） — address `suppl-3571-80/art-19` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/suppl-3571-80/art-19 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/suppl-3571-80/art-19 - 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. --- ### 第十九条（健康保険法の一部改正に伴う経過措置） — Transitional Measures Accompanying Partial Amendment of the Health Insurance Act caption: machine translation, not official suppl-3571-80/art-19 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/suppl-3571-80/art-19 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/suppl-3571-80/art-19 **第一項** 健康保険の被保険者又は被扶養者であつて第二十五条第一項各号のいずれかに該当するものが、施行日前に受けた療養に係る療養費若しくは高額療養費又は家族療養費若しくは家族高額療養費の支給については、なお従前の例による。 suppl-3571-80/art-19/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/suppl-3571-80/art-19/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/suppl-3571-80/art-19/par-1 With regard to the payment of medical expenses or high-cost medical expenses, or dependent's medical expenses or dependent's high-cost medical expenses, for medical treatment received before the Effective Date by a person who is an insured person covered by health insurance or a dependent and who falls under any of the items of Article 25, paragraph (1), the provisions then in force continue to govern. machine translation, not official **第二項** 健康保険法第四十三条第三項第一号に規定する保険医療機関又は保険薬局が施行日前にした詐欺その他不正の行為により支払われた療養の給付又は家族療養費の支給に関する費用の返還については、なお従前の例による。 suppl-3571-80/art-19/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/suppl-3571-80/art-19/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/suppl-3571-80/art-19/par-2 With regard to the refund of expenses relating to benefits for medical treatment or the payment of dependent's medical expenses that were paid by reason of fraud or other wrongful conduct committed before the Effective Date by a medical institution providing services covered by health insurance or a pharmacy providing services covered by health insurance prescribed in Article 43, paragraph (3), item (i) of the Health Insurance Act, the provisions then in force continue to govern. machine translation, not official **第三項** 施行日前にした行為に対する健康保険法の規定による罰則の適用については、なお従前の例による。 suppl-3571-80/art-19/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/suppl-3571-80/art-19/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/suppl-3571-80/art-19/par-3 With regard to the application of penal provisions under the provisions of the Health Insurance Act to acts committed before the Effective Date, the provisions then in force continue to govern. machine translation, not official --- ## Sources - e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 健康保険法 — the text in force from 2026-10-01 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/211AC0000000070/20261001_507AC0000000087), retrieved 2026-10-10 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Health Insurance Act — Ministry of Justice translation (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/3266/tb), retrieved 2026-10-10 - claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch health-insurance-act-20261010T183826-015, translated 2026-10-11 - This site's parser, version 189 — 健康保険法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-10