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Aged Care Funding Instrument Reports

ACFI Quarterly Reports

Quarterly Reports on Aged Care Funding Instrument

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Quarterly Reports on Aged Care Funding Instrument

The Aged Care Funding Instrument (ACFI) assesses the relative care needs of residents and is the mechanism for allocating the government subsidy to aged care providers for delivering care to residents. The ACFI replaced the former Resident Classification Scale (RCS) on 20 March 2008. The instrument consists of 12 care need questions, some of which have specified assessment tools.

The ACFI has three funding categories or domains: Activities of Daily Living (ADLs), Behaviour (BEH) and Complex Health Care (CHC). Funding in each of these domains is provided at the following levels: high (H), medium (M), low (L) and nil (N).

Aged Care Assessment Teams/ Services (ACATs) continue to assess and approve clients for residential care, including limiting the approval for some residents to low care. The subsequent ACFI appraisal by the home results in an ACFI classification of a high or low level of care. The conditions for high care from 1 January 2010 are: High in either the Activities of Daily Living (ADL), or Complex Health Care (CHC) domains, a high in Behaviour (BEH) together with a score above Nil in at least one of the other domains, or a score of Medium in at least two of the three domains.

Should a resident be assessed by the ACAT as requiring only a low level of care but be appraised by the aged care provider at a level that is defined as high care, then the ACFI classification level of “Interim Low” would be assigned for that resident. This ACFI classification is retained until a subsequent ACAT re-assessment or valid ACFI re-appraisal.

The following Reports summarise national data on ACFI-appraised residents as at the end of the particular quarter. Residents are grouped in the Tables according to their ACFI classification. You may download these tables in Excel format:

The Department of Health and Ageing has made every effort to ensure that the Microsoft Excel versions of the Quarterly Reports on Aged Care Funding Instrument meet accessibility requirements. If you are experiencing difficulty accessing the information contained within this document, please contact ACFI to arrange for an alternative format to be provided to you.

ACFI Quarterly Report - December 2012

ACFI Quarterly Report - September 2012

ACFI Quarterly Report - June 2012

ACFI Quarterly Report - March 2012

ACFI Quarterly Report - December 2011 (Excel 55 KB)
ACFI Quarterly Report - December 2011 (PDF 120 KB)

ACFI Quarterly Report - September 2011 (Excel 60 KB)
ACFI Quarterly Report - September 2011 (PDF 118 KB)

ACFI Quarterly Report - June 2011 (Excel 61 KB)
ACFI Quarterly Report - June 2011 (PDF 118 KB)

ACFI Quarterly Report - March 2011 (Excel 59 KB)
ACFI Quarterly Report - March 2011 (PDF 118 KB)

ACFI Quarterly Report - December 2010 (Excel 62 KB)
ACFI Quarterly Report - December 2010 (PDF 122 KB)

ACFI Quarterly Report - September 2010 (Excel 63 KB)
ACFI Quarterly Report - September 2010 (PDF 54 KB)

ACFI Quarterly Report - June 2010 (Excel 113 KB)
ACFI Quarterly Report - June 2010 (PDF 118 KB)

ACFI Quarterly Report - March 2010 (Excel 64 KB)
ACFI Quarterly Report - March 2010 (PDF 120 KB)

ACFI Quarterly Report - December 2009 (Excel 63 KB)
ACFI Quarterly Report - December 2009 (PDF 54 KB)

ACFI Quarterly Report - September 2009 (Excel 87 KB)
ACFI Quarterly Report - September 2009 (PDF 64 KB)

ACFI Quarterly Report - June 2009 (Excel 79 KB)
ACFI Quarterly Report - June 2009 (PDF 66 KB)

Each set of Quarterly Reports contain tables which outline the following:

  1. Aged Care Funding Instrument (ACFI) Classification Statistics – Percentage of permanent residents by ACFI Classification by State as at the end of the particular quarter.
  2. Aged Care Funding Instrument (ACFI) Classification Statistics – Percentage of permanent residents by ACFI Classification and Previous RCS Category as at the end of the particular quarter.
  3. Aged Care Funding Instrument (ACFI) Appraisal Statistics – Percentage of permanent residents by Saved Rate* and previous RCS Category as at the end of the particular quarter.
    * Grand-parenting arrangements apply if the rate of subsidy associated with the resident’s ACFI classification does not exceed their current RCS subsidy rate by more than $15. The subsidy for that resident would continue to be paid at the existing RCS rate and this is referred to as the ‘RCS saved rate’.
  4. Aged Care Funding Instrument (ACFI) Appraisal Statistics – Percentage of permanent residents by ACFI Question** for ACFI-appraised residents as at the end of the particular quarter.
    ** The ACFI consists of 12 care need questions. The answers to each question are rated as A, B, C or D, each of which has a score attached depending on the question. These scores are used to assign a classification of H, M, L or N in each of the three domains (such as MLH), which determines the level of care subsidy for the resident.

Note: Data is correct at time of posting and not subsequently updated.
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