MC Plus Material – 08_Overview of the FY2026 Medical Fee Revision: 8. Promotion of High

Overview of the FY2026 Medical Fee Revision, particularly information regarding the "Promotion of High-Quality Home Healthcare," suggests a trend towards the reorganization and strengthening of the home healthcare delivery system within the entire medical industry. This indicates a need for a shift in management strategy, looking beyond short-term considerations of fee increases or decreases, towards the future structure of healthcare provision.

In the context of medical M&A and business succession, this revision suggests that for medical institutions focusing on home healthcare or medical corporations aiming to strengthen their home care divisions, expanding business scale and enhancing service delivery systems may become essential. For example, securing personnel, investing in facilities, and utilizing ICT for efficiency to meet newly established requirements will likely pose management challenges. When overcoming these independently proves difficult, collaboration with companies in the same or different industries, or integration through M&A, can be a viable option for ensuring sustained quality and stabilizing the management base.

Against the backdrop of advancing community-based integrated care systems and a growing elderly population, demand for home healthcare is expected to continue expanding. Business owners and successors should view the direction of this medical fee revision as an "opportunity for growth in the home healthcare business" and consider it is time to concretely explore business expansion and reorganization through mergers and acquisitions, as part of their business succession strategy, including future capital investment, human resource development, and if necessary, M&A.