Consultation Paper on the Pricing Framework for Australian Residential Aged Care Services 2025-26

Each year, we hold a public consultation through the release of a consultation paper with some key questions. It is an opportunity for you to have your say in the development of the final pricing framework. 

Your feedback can help shape the pricing and costing advice we provide to government. 

The 2025-26 consultation

Everyone with an interest in residential aged care, from people living in residential aged care and their families or representatives, aged care workers, aged care providers of all types and size, healthcare providers and the public, was invited to have their say. 

The focus areas in the Consultation Paper on the Pricing Framework for Australian Residential Aged Care Services 2025–26 include:

• Australian National Aged Care Classification (AN-ACC) branching structure and funding model 
• Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander specialisation and base care tariffs
• homeless specialisation and base care tariffs
• residential respite care
• proposed changes to IHACPA’s residential aged care pricing principles. 

We also welcomed general feedback about IHACPA’s role in residential aged care and residential respite care. 

Submissions closed on Friday 20 September 2024.

Unless specifically requested that parts or all of a submission should not be released, all submissions will be published on the IHACPA Engagement Hub. We retain the right not to publish any submissions, or part thereof, where we consider it appropriate to do so.

Personal contact details for all submissions will be removed or redacted from each submission before they are published on our website. Information will be stored securely and used in accordance with IHACPA’s Privacy Policy.

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