Senate Community Affairs Legislation Committee, , 7:43:42 to 7:45:24
IHACPA clarifies that under current legislation and government direction, they must provide a single recommended price rather than alternative scenarios. They confirm the use of independent quality assurance for their mathematical modeling.
Topics: Health, Integrity
Speakers: Senator The Hon Anne Ruston, Prof Michael Pervan, Unknown Speaker
So when you make a determination, do you provide the minister with a single recommended amounts, or do you provide alternative pricing scenarios that the minister can choose from?
Um under the the direction and under the legislation, we have to provide our price. So that the there's just one number. So we don't say you could go higher or lower.
So it's uh it's uh in this case you provide a 2.55% increase on base ANAC and then you calculates out at two,
sorry, Senator, it calculates out at that, but no, it's actually a dollar amount, and then we provide price weights for the different ANAC classes.
So you provide the price weights? Okay. So in terms of that, so you provided the minister with uh $33.19. That was the only price that you provided.
That's it's the only one we can provide within the the policy direction.
Policy framework. And that price is based on the government direction in terms of how you need to build the price um on the direction that's in you like three years ago when you first started doing aged care as part of this.
What's included and what's excluded?
Yep. Okay, fine. Um so the there was no alternative modelling or alternative could have been requested.
No, but I would um happily admit to you that when the price came out and we saw what it was, we QA'd it multiple times and actually got uh an independent agency to come in and QA it as well to make sure that our maths was right.
Yeah. Mass was right within the terms.