Revision of Long-Term Care Reimbursement Rates and Difficulty Passing Costs Through to Staffing Fees
First written in FY2025-H1. 3 of 5 entries say "Worsened", first in FY2026-H1. Latest entry: 2026-11-13.
Career moved to the "Worse" side of this theme in 2025, 2 years after the typical company in this theme (2023).
The whole theme swung hardest in 2026: 5 of 6 companies on the "Worse" side.
1 other company's latest entry also says "Worsened".
- FY2026-H1WorsenedAnnual report
「As the effects of cuts to basic fees for home-care providers under the nursing-care fee revision implemented the year before last, together with the sharp rise in temporary-staff recruitment costs amid a tight labor market caused by broad-based inflation, compounded one another, revenue turned downward and profitability came under pressure.」
The combined effects of cuts to basic fees under the nursing-care fee revision and the sharp rise in temporary-staff recruitment costs continued to reduce revenue and pressure profitability in the senior-care business during the interim period. - FY2025MaterialisedAnnual report
「As the effects of the sharp rise in the cost of recruiting temporary staff amid a tight labor market caused by broad-based inflation, together with requests for wage increases accompanying revisions to medical and nursing-care fees, compounded one another, revenue growth slowed substantially and profitability came under pressure.」
The effects of higher temporary-staff recruitment costs, requests for wage increases accompanying revisions to medical and nursing-care fees, and difficulty passing higher costs through to customers became evident in the full-year decline in revenue and pressure on profitability in the senior-care business. - FY2025-H1MaterialisedAnnual report
「Because home-care providers whose operating conditions have deteriorated, including as a result of the reduction in basic fees under last year’s nursing-care fee revision, are cautious about raising staffing fees, requests to pass higher costs through to customers are facing difficult conditions and have become a factor behind the decline in revenue.」
The company identifies as an actual factor behind the decline in revenue the difficulty of passing higher staffing fees through to customers as operating conditions at home-care providers deteriorated following cuts to basic fees under the nursing-care fee revision.