This article provides an indication of the current status of the Department of Health HCP published rates in the Lumary system. This is a live status page. Please keep checking back for updates. You might need to refresh your browser to see the latest version.
Installed rates:
- Home Care Subsidies and Supplements - effective 1 October 2025
- Basic daily fee - effective 1 July 2025
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Update - 30/9/2025
We've deployed the updated HCP subsidy rates effective from 1 October to production environments. If you have any issues accessing the new rates, please raise a ticket with our Customer Success team or reach out to your account manager.
Update - 29/9/2025
The Department of Health has published an update to the Schedule of Subsidies and Supplements for Aged Care today.
We're analysing the changes and planning our approach.
Update - 13/8/2025
The Department of Health has published an update to the Schedule of Subsidies and Supplements for Aged Care on 12/8/2025. There is an updated rate for the viability supplement for MMM 6, this has been updated from $19.98 to $19.38.
We're analysing the changes and planning our approach.
Update - 10/7/2025
The Department of Health has published an update to the Schedule of Subsidies and Supplements for Aged Care on 8/7/2025. There are updated rates for the Dementia and cognition and Veterans’ supplement, effective from 1st July 2025.
We've deployed the automated updates across all HCP environments to apply the correct subsidy rates going forward. Additionally, we are running additional processes to correct journal entries that were created earlier with the previous listed rates. This will automatically re-balance affected journals and reduce manual adjustments needed later this month.
If you have any issues accessing the new rates, please raise a ticket with our Customer Success team or reach out to your account manager.
Update - 1/7/2025
The Department of Health has published an update to the Schedule of Subsidies and Supplements for Aged Care today.
We've deployed the updated HCP subsidy rates to production environments. If you have any issues accessing the new rates, please raise a ticket with our Customer Success team or reach out to your account manager.
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