Residential aged care pricing advice
Each year, we provide the government with independent pricing and costing advice on the Australian National Aged Care Classification (AN-ACC) funding model for residential aged care and residential respite care.
Our residential aged care pricing advice to government includes:
- the recommended AN-ACC price
- recommended price weights for each AN‑ACC class and respite class
- recommended price weights for each base care tariff category
- advice on the estimated gap between the cost of delivering everyday living services and related revenue received by residential care homes
- advice on other related elements of residential aged care pricing, where requested by government.
Our pricing advice is intended to cover the cost of care incurred by registered providers of residential aged care services. Elements of care that are in-scope for the AN-ACC funding model are set out in the Aged Care Rules 2025.
To support our development of evidence-based pricing advice, we use the most recently available year of data collected through our cost collections. We also use data collected through the Aged Care Financial Report and Quarterly Financial Report to better understand the costs of delivering care and care related services.
Our advice also considers input from aged care stakeholders through our annual public consultations.
Each year our aged care pricing advice undergoes an independent validation and quality assurance process.
More information about how we develop our pricing advice to government can be found in the Aged Care Pricing Policy.
Key publications
Current pricing advice
- Residential Aged Care Pricing Advice 2025–26
- Residential Aged Care Pricing Advice 2025–26 – Technical Specifications
Previous pricing advice
- Residential Aged Care Supplementary Pricing Advice 2024–25
- Residential Aged Care Supplementary Pricing Advice 2024–25 – Technical Specifications
- Residential Aged Care Pricing Advice 2024–25
- Residential Aged Care Pricing Advice 2024–25 – Technical Specifications
- Residential Aged Care Supplementary Pricing Advice 2023–24
- Residential Aged Care Supplementary Pricing Advice 2023–24 – Technical Specifications
- Residential Aged Care Pricing Advice 2023–24
- Residential Aged Care Pricing Advice 2023–24 – Technical Specifications