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 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