Missed Care Minutes: You could be delivering up to 4 hours of unfunded care daily.
AN-ACC funding updates the moment a resident’s classification changes. The mandated care minutes target doesn’t. It’s calculated from a reference period that can sit months behind the quarter it applies to. If respite conversions aren’t actively monitored through that window, a facility can end up funded at the new, lower converted rate on one side of the ledger, while still mandated to deliver the old, higher respite-era target on the other.
4.2 hours / day – of care time your target can still require, facility-wide, while your funding has already dropped to the converted rate.
Based on a case study of a 100-bed facility, these graphs reflect this drop:
Figures modelled on an illustrative 100-bed facility, facility-wide averages across all residents, using AN-ACC NWAU rates (effective 1 Oct 2025), Care Minutes Guide Table 3 (effective 1 Oct 2025) and Table 4 target calculation timing. No client or facility identified.
Facility-wide, that mismatch is worth about $2.91 per resident per day in funding that’s already gone, against a target that can still sit around 2.5 minutes per resident per day higher, roughly 4.2 hours of total care time and 0.9 hours of RN time across the home, every day the target hasn’t caught up.
This is exactly the gap Care Minute Navigator is built to close. It tracks your respite and permanent mix in real time against both sides of this mismatch, what you’re currently funded for and what your target actually requires, so you can see the transition coming and plan for it, rather than discovering the gap after it’s already landed in a QFR.
Bring us your facility’s respite and permanent mix and we’ll run the same model against your real numbers.
Mathew Brincat
Chief Clinical Officer
