Unshisha Announces "Care Team X," a System Judgment Platform Specialized for Home Nursing Care

Unshisha Inc. (Taito-ku, Tokyo, Representative Director: Yoshinori Nagaya) has announced "Care Team X," a system judgment platform specialized for home nursing care. Starting in May 2026, a phased rollout is planned for existing customers of "Care Team," a medical claim agency service specialized for home nursing care.

Care Team X is not merely a functional expansion of medical claim agency services. It is a structured, reproducible operational foundation that consolidates the knowledge of system judgments accumulated by Unshisha over approximately 6 years while supporting the billing operations of about 70 business sites and approximately 6,000 claims per month. The aim is to build a new foundation that supports "system judgment" rather than just "input" in home nursing care billing operations.

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■ Industry Challenge: Home nursing care billing operations rely on "system judgment," not just "input."

Many home nursing care stations operate with small teams. It is not uncommon for a single administrator to concurrently manage nursing and billing operations, with only one administrative staff member, or none at all.

On the other hand, home nursing care billing operations involve complex system judgments compared to general care services. Both long-term care insurance and medical insurance are involved, there are numerous types of additional charges, and the conditions for application vary for each user. Cases where judgment changes based on combination with other services, such as in assisted living facilities, occur on a daily basis.

In such operations, simply entering information is not enough. System judgments are necessary, such as whether an additional charge can be applied, which insurance is applicable, and how to consider past handling history. Currently, these operations largely depend on the knowledge of experienced personnel.

Consequently, if an experienced staff member leaves, their judgment knowledge is lost. If their successor is inexperienced, the manager must guide them through the operations. As the number of users increases or system revisions require adaptation, the burden of judgment grows, increasing the risk of errors and delays in response.

While tools and services to streamline data entry are increasing, the essence of home nursing care billing operations lies not in the data entry itself, but in system judgment. Simply optimizing data entry does not resolve the fundamental issue of reliance on individual expertise for judgment.

■ What is "Care Team X," the system judgment platform specialized for home nursing care?

Care Team X is an operational platform that centrally manages and accumulates the system rules, user information, and judgment history necessary for home nursing care billing operations.

It aims to support the elements required for system judgment, such as determining eligibility for charges, confirming insurance types, referencing instruction documents and insurance information, and accumulating records of returns and corrections.

The foundation of this platform is built upon the patterns of system judgments, records of handling edge cases, and tracking of compliance with remuneration revisions, accumulated through the practical operations of the medical claim agency service "Care Team" provided by Unshisha for approximately 6 years.

The main functions of Care Team X are as follows:

• Standardization of System Rules: Systematizes the logic for system judgments, such as eligibility for additional charges, determination of insurance applicability, and linking procedures to additional charges. Maintains a state where the basis for judgment can be explicitly shown.

• Consolidation of User Information: Centrally manages insurance information, instruction documents, and charging status on a per-user basis. Ensures that information necessary for judgment is always readily available.

• Accumulation of Judgment History: Records the history of judgments, returns, corrections, and differences. Allows for tracking past judgment processes at any time, ensuring consistency in judgments for similar cases.

• Adaptation to Remuneration Revisions: Reflects the content of remuneration revisions in the platform and manages rules applicable before and after revisions separately.

■ Positioning of AI: Utilized to support judgment, not to replace it.

In Care Team X, AI is utilized for organizing points of discussion, detecting missing information, assisting in referencing past similar cases, and performing consistency checks.

However, it does not aim for fully automated judgment by AI. The final system judgment will always be performed by a specialized team proficient in home nursing care billing operations. The AI in Care Team X plays a supporting role, enhancing the quality and consistency of judgment, rather than replacing human expertise.

■ Towards a Platform that Supports Small-Scale Operations and Offices Without Administrative Staff from Behind the Scenes

Care Team X is planned to be offered integrated with the existing medical claim agency service "Care Team." Businesses can continue to utilize it by outsourcing medical claim agency and billing services as before, with Care Team X supporting its operations from behind the scenes.

It aims to support an operational structure that makes it easier to continue billing operations even when administrative staff are absent or when a successor is inexperienced. For the approximately 70 business sites currently using Care Team, the phased rollout will commence in May 2026.

■ Future Outlook: Establishing "System Judgment Platform" as a New Foundational Category for Home Nursing Care

Unshisha aims to establish the "System Judgment Platform" as a new foundational category supporting home nursing care billing operations.

In the long-term care sector, while digitalization and information infrastructure development are progressing, efforts to structure the system judgments performed daily in the field and make them continuously operational are still insufficient.

Many efficiency tools and outsourcing services to date have been designed primarily around streamlining data entry and task delegation. However, a foundation for standardizing and operating the system judgment itself, while considering variable factors such as user-specific conditions, combinations with other services, and adherence to remuneration revisions, has not been adequately developed.

Unshisha, centered around the "Care Team X" system judgment platform born from practical operations, will promote the standardization of judgment quality in home nursing care billing operations and work towards the widespread adoption and evolution of platforms supporting system judgment.

■ Representative's Comment

Yoshinori Nagaya, Representative Director, Unshisha Inc.

“For about six years, we have been entrusted with the billing operations of home nursing care stations. Throughout this period, we have consistently felt that the essence of this work lies not in input but in judgment.

Whether an additional charge can be applied. Which insurance, medical or long-term care, is applicable. Despite the existence of rules, such judgments have continued to rely on the individual experience of the staff.

Care Team X is the result of structuring the judgment knowledge we have accumulated through daily operations into a platform. Home nursing care billing operations require not only mechanisms to streamline input but also a foundation that supports judgment itself.

We will begin by offering it to our existing customers and steadily develop it through practical operation.”

■ Company Overview

Company Name: Unshisha Inc.

Representative: Yoshinori Nagaya, Representative Director

Established: August 1, 2013

Location: 2-7-14 Torigoe, Taito-ku, Tokyo

Business Activities: Operation of "Care Team," a medical claim agency and billing service specialized for home nursing care; Development and operation of "Care Team X," a system judgment platform specialized for home nursing care.

URL: https://scanspecial.jp

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*Information is current as of the announcement date. Please note that information is subject to change without notice.