The present invention provides a coating composition for drug eluting medical devices, which enables a medical device to be delivered to a target tissue without having a medical agent easily separated from the medical device on the way to the target tissue for the purpose of treating an affected blood vessel such as restenosis. This coating composition for drug eluting medical devices contains a water-insoluble medical agent and at least one substance that is selected from the group consisting of ester compounds of amino acids, which have a hydrophobicity index of an amino acid side chain of 0 or less, and salts thereof.
