The Aged Care Financing Authority (ACFA) was asked by government to provide advice on cost neutral mechanisms to ensure access to care for supported residents. This included reviewing the efficiency, effectiveness and appropriate level of the:
• supported resident ratio for each aged care planning region
• 25 per cent discount applied to the maximum accommodation supplement amount where a service does not provide more than 40 per cent of its eligible care recipient days to supported residents.

Read more:

ACFA report on access to care for supported residents now available

Report on access to care for supported residents – January 2017 (.pdf)

DoH – Report on access to care for supported residents – January 2017