Medical corporation related business and ancillary business
Updated: July 2025, 2
In this article, we will touch upon the content and specific examples of ancillary and subsidiary business of medical corporations, and explain the role and importance of non-medical business.
In addition, we support applications for approval to change the articles of incorporation and applications for permission when a medical corporation starts a business that falls under ancillary services.
We provide comprehensive support for complicated applications, so please feel free to contact us.
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What operations can medical corporations perform?
The operations that medical corporations can perform are classified as follows.
| original business | Management of so-called medical facilities such as clinics, hospitals, nursing care facilities for the elderly, and nursing care clinics. |
| Ancillary business | Work that can be performed incidental to the original work. Some are stipulated in the Medical Care Act, while others are stipulated by a public notice from the Minister of Health, Labor and Welfare. In short, it is health and hygiene work related to medical care. Many of the tasks closely related to the management of medical facilities and those related to nursing care and welfare are stipulated. In reality, many of them are visiting nursing stations, home care support offices, etc. |
| Revenue operations | Business that is neither essential business nor incidental business, but is recognized only by social medical corporations. Most businesses such as real estate rental and goods sales are possible, but public infrastructure businesses such as finance and water supply, speculative businesses, and businesses that may question the social credibility of a medical corporation (entertainment business, weapons business, etc.) are possible. (manufacturing industry, etc.) are not allowed. |
| Ancillary work | Although this originally falls under revenue-generating operations, it is closely related to the original operations and is specially recognized as an operation for the welfare of patients and staff. |
What is ancillary business?
Ancillary business isDay care and home care services,Medical-like business,Nursing home services,Childcare servicesIt is divided into
Common examples include outpatient clinics, home-based services, home care support offices, and visiting nursing stations.
Home care support office
Home care support offices create care plans based on the physical and mental condition, environment, and individual wishes of the inhabitant to ensure that they can make appropriate use of home services, and communicate and coordinate with service providers.
However, home care support businesses cannot enter into exclusive partnerships with specific facilities.
Home-Visit nursing station
A visiting nursing station is a facility that is separate from a medical facility and is used to visit patients at home to provide care for their daily lives and assist with medical treatment.
A typical example of medical-related work is the establishment of a medical clinic.
Treatment center
A treatment centre is a place where treatments are performed by professionals who perform medical-like activities, such as masseurs, acupuncturists, moxibustion therapists, massage therapists and judo therapists.
Nursing care facility services include paid nursing homes.
Nursing home
A nursing home is a facility that accepts elderly people and provides nursing care services. Nursing care services include assistance with bathing, toileting, and eating, and the provision of meals.
In other words, places that accept elderly people and provide services such as bathing, toileting, meal assistance, and meal delivery for a fee may be considered paid nursing homes, so be aware of this.
Nursery school (nursery school)
Childcare services include daycare centers.
A nursery school is a facility that aims to provide daily care for infants and young children who lack care, on behalf of their parents, and is commonly known as a daycare center.
Medical corporations can also provide care for sick children.
To perform incidental work
In order to carry out ancillary business, approval for changes to the articles of incorporation is required.
For approval to change the articles of incorporation, facility drawings, income and expenditure budget statements (for the entire corporation), facility outline, etc. are required.
After the amendment to the articles of incorporation has been approved, it is necessary to carry out the necessary procedures to carry out the business, such as designation based on the Nursing Care Insurance Act, notification of establishment of an acupuncture clinic (treatment center), establishment approval for nursery schools, etc.
What is incidental work?
For outpatients, inpatients, and staffParking lot and shop, to medical facilitiesPick up and drop-off servicein XNUMX minutes by bus from Yonago Station.
Even if it is a parking lot or a shop, it is limited to those that are attached to a medical facility.
Performing work on premises separate from the hospital does not constitute incidental work.
Free transportation to and from medical facilities:Free shuttle bus,Home pick-up serviceIs applicable.
Parking lots, shops, and free shuttle services can be outsourced to other businesses (convenience stores, bus companies, etc.).
To perform incidental work
Generally, it is a fundamental principle of corporate law that for a corporation to carry out a certain business, it must be provided for by law or in the articles of incorporation. However, as in the so-called "Yawata Steel Corporation case" involving a joint-stock company, there are some matters that a corporation can carry out without being provided for by law or in the articles of incorporation, as long as they are ancillary matters.
Therefore, what is considered to be ancillary business is an inherent business that can be carried out by interpretation even without the provisions of laws and regulations or the articles of incorporation, so there is no need to change the articles of incorporation.
However, if a license under the Road Transport Act or Food Sanitation Act is required when conducting business, it is necessary to obtain such permission.
Additionally, if there is a change in the structure, equipment, or use of a medical facility, it is necessary to apply to a public health center, etc. for permission to partially change the opening details.
For medical corporation applications, please contact Support Administrative Scrivener Corporation
At Support Administrative Scrivener Corporation, we provide application support and consulting regarding branching, relocation, etc. of clinics and hospitals for those who are establishing a new medical corporation.
Applications related to medical corporations and clinics are highly specialized and can be said to be one of the fields in which there are few administrative scriveners who can handle them.
Our staff has a track record of applying in all prefectures across the country. Please contact us by all means.
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