Residential Aged Care Pricing Advice 2025–26
Date published: 12 September 2025
IHACPA has released the Residential Aged Care Pricing Advice 2025–26.
The pricing advice informs Australian Government decisions on residential aged care funding from 1 October 2025 to 30 September 2026.
The pricing advice includes:
- the recommended Australian National Aged Care Classification (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 costs of delivering hotel services and specific types of revenue received for all residential aged care services.
Our pricing advice considers a variety of data sources to provide a better understanding of the costs of providing aged care services. This advice also considers feedback from aged care stakeholders as part of our public consultation.
The technical specifications accompanies the pricing advice. It details the methods used to develop our advice.
The Department of Health, Disability and Ageing is the system operator with overall responsibility for aged care policy setting.