# 介護保険法 / Long-Term Care Insurance Act — 第百七十三条 (Article 173)

- Law: 介護保険法 (Long-Term Care Insurance Act), 平成九年法律第百二十三号
- English title "Long-Term Care 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: 第百七十三条 (Article 173)（医療情報基盤・診療報酬審査支払機構法の適用の特例） — address `art-173`
- Text in force since: 2026-10-01
- URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-173
- Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-173
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### 第百七十三条（医療情報基盤・診療報酬審査支払機構法の適用の特例） — Special Provisions on Application of the Medical Information Infrastructure and Medical Fee Examination and Payment Organization Act
<sup>caption: machine translation, not official</sup>
<sup>art-173 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-173 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-173</sup>

**第一項**  介護保険関係業務は、医療情報基盤・診療報酬審査支払機構法第四十三条第二項の規定の適用については、同法第十八条に規定する業務とみなす。
<sup>art-173/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-173/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-173/par-1</sup>
Business related to insured long-term care, with regard to application of the provisions of Article 43, paragraph (2) of the Medical Information Infrastructure and Medical Fee Examination and Payment Organization Act, is deemed to be operations as prescribed in Article 18 of the same Act.
<sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

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## Sources

- e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 介護保険法 — the text in force from 2026-10-01 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/409AC0000000123/20261001_507AC0000000087), retrieved 2026-10-18
- Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Long-Term Care Insurance Act — Ministry of Justice translation (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/3807/tb), retrieved 2026-10-18
- claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch long-term-care-insurance-act-20261018T203319-040, translated 2026-10-19
- This site's parser, version 209 — 介護保険法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-18