The money, base and window named

AN-ACC prices, the mandatory quarterly financial reports, IHACPA determinations and the survey data beside them: aged care’s money, reported from the documents. Where two datasets disagree, we publish both and say why, because the difference is usually the story.

Funding + pricing

The quarterly snapshot of aged care’s finances stopped in February. The annual report did not

The series ran on a 139-day clock for four years and never went more than 109 days between editions. It has now been 182, two editions are outstanding, the dataset behind it stopped on the same day, and no notice accompanies any of it.

18 August 2026

Funding + pricing

The government published what Support at Home providers actually charge. The gap between them is the story

Care management runs $30 to $150 an hour between the quartiles; house cleaning runs $100 to $117. The spread sits in clinical and allied health, exactly where a participant can least judge value.

4 August 2026

Funding + pricing

The evidence base for aged care’s missing price says the funding model’s own relativities need a rethink

200 homes, 12,537 residents and 355,830 days of care, with direct care time measured by Bluetooth. $430 a day on average, $768 in the most remote homes, and a recommendation to reassess the AN-ACC weights themselves.

28 July 2026

Funding + pricing

Is aged care losing money? The sector’s two scorecards disagree, and both are right

61 per cent of homes at an operating loss, says the industry survey; 64.5 per cent of providers profitable, says the whole-of-sector snapshot. Different populations, windows and metrics: both halves of the truth, side by side.

18 July 2026

Funding + pricing

The price that funds every aged care bed expires on 30 September. Its replacement is not published yet

The anatomy of the $295.64 AN-ACC price, the framework that has no number in it, and the consultation that feeds the year after next. What providers are budgeting against, precisely.

18 July 2026