Aged Care (Transitional Provisions) (Subsidy and Other Measures) Amendment (July Indexation) Determination 2017

I, Ken Wyatt, Minister for Aged Care and Minister for Indigenous Health, make the following determination.

Dated   Fifteenth June  2017

Ken Wyatt

Minister for Aged Care and Minister for Indigenous Health

 

 

 

Contents

1  Name 

2  Commencement

3  Authority

4  Schedules

Schedule 1—Indexation

Aged Care (Transitional Provisions) (Subsidy and Other Measures) Determination 2014

 

1  Name

  This instrument is the Aged Care (Transitional Provisions) (Subsidy and Other Measures) Amendment (July Indexation) Determination 2017.

2  Commencement

  This instrument commences on 1 July 2017.

3  Authority

  This instrument is made under the Aged Care (Transitional Provisions) Act 1997.

4  Schedules

  Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.

Schedule 1Indexation

Aged Care (Transitional Provisions) (Subsidy and Other Measures) Determination 2014

1  Amendments of listed provisions—indexation of amounts of supplements

The provisions listed in the following table are amended as set out in the table.

 

Amendments relating to indexation of amounts of supplements

Item

Provision

Omit

Substitute

1

Subsection 36(1)

$11.12

$11.35

2

Subsection 36(2)

$13.90

$14.19

3

Paragraph 38(1)(a)

$17.62

$17.99

4

Paragraph 38(1)(b)

$19.79

$20.21

5

Subsection 38(2)

$22.02 for bolus feeding and $24.74 for non-bolus feeding

$22.49 for bolus feeding and $25.26 for non-bolus feeding

6

Section 65

$12.85

$13.03

7

Section 77

$6.88

$6.98

8

Section 79

$15.72

$15.94

9

Section 91

$2.66

$2.69

 

2  Subsection 8(3) (table)

Repeal the table, substitute:

 

ACFI amounts

Item

Domain category

Domain amount ($)

1

Nil ADL category

0

2

Low ADL category

37.16

3

Medium ADL category

80.92

4

High ADL category

112.10

5

Nil behaviour category

0

6

Low behaviour category

8.49

7

Medium behaviour category

17.60

8

High behaviour category

36.70

9

Nil CHC category

0

10

Low CHC category

16.60

11

Medium CHC category

47.27

12

High CHC category

68.26

 

3  Subsection 10(3) (table)

Repeal the table, substitute:

 

RCS amounts

Item

RCS classification

RCS amount ($)

1

Classification level 1

165.45

2

Classification level 2

150.03

3

Classification level 3

129.24

4

Classification level 4

91.36

5

Classification level 5

55.66

6

Classification level 6

46.09

7

Classification level 7

35.41

8

Classification level 8

0

 

4  Section 83 (table)

Repeal the table, substitute:

 

Basic subsidy amount

Item

Level of home care

Amount ($)

1

Level 1

22.35

2

Level 2

40.65

3

Level 3

89.37

4

Level 4

135.87