Engagement Hub


IHACPA is committed to open and transparent consultation with health and aged care stakeholders, government departments and agencies and the public.

Take part in consultations, surveys and conversations that interest you, and find out more about decisions we've made.

Open consultations

  • Consultation Paper on the Pricing Framework for Australian Support at Home Aged Care Services 2026–27

    IHACPA has released the Consultation Paper on the Pricing Framework for Australian Support at Home Aged Care Services 2026–27 . We invite you to have your say on in-home aged care pricing with public consultation now open. The Australian Government’s Support at Home program will combine existing in-home aged care services into a single, simplified program designed to assist older people to live independently at home for longer. Our role is to provide evidence-based...

    Closes 18 July 2025

Closed consultations

  • Consultation Paper on the Pricing Framework for Australian Public Hospital Services 2026–27

    IHACPA has released its Consultation Paper on the Pricing Framework for Australian Public Hospital Services 2026–27 . The aim of this consultation is to seek feedback on our approach to developing the activity based funding system and block funding arrangements for Australian...

    Closed 13 June 2025

  • IHACPA Work Program and Corporate Plan 2025-26

    The Independent Health and Aged Care Pricing Authority (IHACPA) invited all interested parties to provide comment on the draft IHACPA Work Program and Corporate Plan 2025-26. Key activities proposed in the draft plan include: continuing to investigate: options for refining...

    Closed 31 March 2025

  • NDIS Pricing Reform - Online Submission

    The government asked IHACPA to undertake initial work in 2024 to identify opportunities for future reforms to National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) pricing functions. This was in response to recommendations of the NDIS Review and recognises our expertise in health and aged care pricing.

    Closed 22 November 2024

We asked, you said, we did

Below are outcomes for some of the issues we've recently asked about.

We asked

From 14 August to 20 September 2024, the Independent Health and Aged Care Pricing Authority (IHACPA) conducted a public consultation on the Pricing Framework for Australian Residential Aged Care Services 2025–26.

You said

A total of 46 submissions were received from various stakeholders. This includes older Australians, carers and families, residential aged care providers, peak bodies, government departments and agencies, and researchers.

As part of the consultation, feedback was gathered on the following areas:

  • 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.

Key findings from the feedback include:

  • support for updates to the aged care pricing principles to better reflect current aged care pricing methodologies
  • stakeholder concerns that cost differences between AN-ACC classes 2 and 3 (independent mobility classes) may be related to residents experiencing cognitive impairment, mental health conditions, challenging behaviours and complex care requirements
  • support for ongoing cost collections to evaluate the costs associated with residential respite care and ensure pricing advice reflects the costs to deliver services
  • stakeholder concerns with the current approach to pricing and costing of allied health care, which accounts for the level of care currently provided, not the level of allied health care clinically assessed for residents
  • the need to understand the costs to deliver culturally appropriate residential aged care to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, including workforce support
  • stakeholder requests to ensure people from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds and marginalised groups within the homeless population receive culturally appropriate care, through investment in specialised staff training and other resources.

We did

The Pricing Framework for Australian Residential Aged Care Services 2025–26 Consultation Report summarises the feedback received during the public consultation period.

The pricing framework and consultation report 2025–26 will inform the development of the Residential Aged Care Pricing Advice 2025–26.