Have your say in the home care pricing approach for 2025–26:
We invite you to represent your Victorian CHSP-funded organisation at a roundtable focused on the Independent Health and Aged Care Pricing Authority’s (IHACPA) consultation for 2025-26 home care pricing. To support the development of its pricing advice to government, IHACPA is seeking feedback on the proposed approach, methodology, and principles to be used.  We appreciate the timeline is tight, but this is an important opportunity for you to have your say.


When 
  • Thursday 10 October, 12 pm to 2 pm
  • or Thursday 10 October, 2:30 pm to 4:30 pm
  • or Friday 11 October, 10 am to 12 pm

Where
MS Teams

Facilitated by 
Jennene Buckley and Tash Edwards, Enkindle Consulting

Presented by 
The SSD Connect Alliance, Grampians SDT, Bayside SSD and the Eastern Sector Development Team
The roundtable

At the roundtable we’ll: 
  • Present a summary of IHACPA’s consultation paper as well as information that’s been published on pricing for the new model 
  • Unpack the questions IHACPA is asking providers 
  • Facilitate breakout sessions where we’ll capture your views on the questions asked by IHACPA. 


We’ll focus on: 
  • Concerns about unit prices 
  • The cost of implementing the new Aged Care Act and Support at Home program Operational costs such as travel, technology, workforce management, compliance,  governance and reporting.  

​Submission paper 
Following the roundtable, a submission will be drafted and sent to you. Your organisation can use this to inform its own submission. We’ll send our joint submission to IHACPA by the 25 October deadline.
Your organisation will be listed in this submission as a contributor.
​You can opt out of being named if you prefer. Who’s it for CEOs, directors, finance managers, operational managers and program managers of Victorian CHSP-funded organisations. 
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