# 医療法 / Medical Care Act — 第二十八条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 28) - Law: 医療法 (Medical Care Act), 昭和二十三年法律第二百五号 - English title "Medical Care 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: 第二十八条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 28)（療養病床に係る既存の病床数の算定に関する措置） — address `suppl-4291-52/art-28` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/suppl-4291-52/art-28 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/suppl-4291-52/art-28 - 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. 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They are never merged and never substituted for one another. --- ### 第二十八条（療養病床に係る既存の病床数の算定に関する措置） — Measures Concerning the Calculation of the Number of Existing Beds Related to Long-Term Care Beds caption: machine translation, not official suppl-4291-52/art-28 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/suppl-4291-52/art-28 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/suppl-4291-52/art-28 **第一項** 都道府県知事が、医療法第七条の二第一項から第三項までの場合又は第七条の規定による改正後の医療法（次条において「新医療法」という。）第三十条の十二第一項において読み替えて準用する医療法第七条の二第三項の場合において、医療法第三十条の四第一項に規定する医療計画において定める同条第二項第十四号に規定する区域における既存の病床数を算定するに当たっては、新介護老人保健施設及び介護医療院の入所定員数については、令和六年三月三十一日までの間、厚生労働省令で定める基準に従い都道府県の条例で定めるところにより、既存の療養病床（同法第七条第二項第四号に規定する療養病床をいう。）の病床数とみなす。 suppl-4291-52/art-28/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/suppl-4291-52/art-28/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/suppl-4291-52/art-28/par-1 When a prefectural governor, in the cases of Article 7-2, paragraphs (1) through (3) of the Medical Care Act or in the case of Article 7-2, paragraph (3) of the Medical Care Act as applied mutatis mutandis with replacement of terms pursuant to Article 30-12, paragraph (1) of the Medical Care Act as amended by the provisions of Article 7 (referred to as the "New Medical Care Act" in the following Article), calculates the number of existing beds in the area prescribed in Article 30-4, paragraph (2), item (xiv) of that Act that is specified in the medical care plan prescribed in paragraph (1) of that Article, the admission capacity of new long-term care health facilities and integrated facilities for medical and long-term care is, until March 31, 2024, deemed to be the number of beds of existing long-term care beds (meaning long-term care beds prescribed in Article 7, paragraph (2), item (iv) of that Act), as provided by Prefectural Ordinance in accordance with the standards specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - suppl-4291-52/art-28/par-1: 医療法第七条の二第一項から第三項まで → 医療法 第七条の二第一項 (Article 7-2, paragraph (1)), art-7-2/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/art-7-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-7-2/par-1 - suppl-4291-52/art-28/par-1: 医療法第七条の二第一項から第三項まで → 医療法 第七条の二第二項 (Article 7-2, paragraph (2)), art-7-2/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/art-7-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-7-2/par-2 - suppl-4291-52/art-28/par-1: 医療法第七条の二第一項から第三項まで → 医療法 第七条の二第三項 (Article 7-2, paragraph (3)), art-7-2/par-3 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/art-7-2/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-7-2/par-3 - suppl-4291-52/art-28/par-1: 次条 → 医療法 附則第二十九条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 29), suppl-4291-52/art-29 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/suppl-4291-52/art-29 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/suppl-4291-52/art-29 - suppl-4291-52/art-28/par-1: 第三十条の十二第一項 → 医療法 第三十条の十二第一項 (Article 30-12, paragraph (1)), art-30-12/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/art-30-12/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-30-12/par-1 - suppl-4291-52/art-28/par-1: 医療法第三十条の四第一項 → 医療法 第三十条の四第一項 (Article 30-4, paragraph (1)), art-30-4/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/art-30-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-30-4/par-1 - suppl-4291-52/art-28/par-1: 同条第二項第十四号 → 医療法 第三十条の四第二項第十七号 (Article 30-4, paragraph (2), item (xvii)), art-30-4/par-2/item-17 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/art-30-4/par-2/item-17 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-30-4/par-2/item-17 - suppl-4291-52/art-28/par-1: 同法第七条第二項第四号 → 医療法 第七条第二項第四号 (Article 7, paragraph (2), item (iv)), art-7/par-2/item-4 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/art-7/par-2/item-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-7/par-2/item-4 --- ## Sources - e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 医療法 — the text in force from 2026-10-01 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/323AC0000000205/20261001_507AC0000000087), retrieved 2026-10-19 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Medical Care Act — Ministry of Justice translation (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4006/tb), retrieved 2026-10-19 - claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch medical-care-act-20261019T151250-031, translated 2026-10-20 - This site's parser, version 210 — 医療法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-19