Accreditation fees

Accreditation fees are payable for each residential aged care service. There is a flat fee for applications for a commencing or recommencing service. Application fees for re-accreditation of an accredited service or previously accredited service (excluding recommencing services) are based on the number of allocated places, whether occupied or not.

There is no GST payable.

We do not issue receipts or invoices for accreditation fees paid.

Note: These are new bank account details as of January 2019.

Eftpos

Organisation:
Aged Care Quality and Safety Commission (ACQSC)

Account name:
ACQSC Departmental External Revenue

BSB Number: 062000

Bank Account Number: 17177204

Reference:
RACS ID service name or
RACS IDs Provider name (for multiple services)

If the EFT payment is for several services, please type the RACS IDs and provider name.

If the EFT payment is for one service, please type the RACS ID and service name where the online banking screen asks for a description or reference for the transaction.

In all cases, please send a remittance advice identifying each service by its name, RACS ID and the fee being paid, (a sample layout follows) and either email it to finance@agedcarequality.gov.au or fax it to (02) 9633 2422 "Attention: Finance".

Name and contact details of approved provider

Date of EFT transaction

RACS, service name   Fee Paid
RACS, service name   Fee Paid
RACS, service name   Fee Paid

Total fees paid:            Total

Cheques

Please make your cheque payable to Aged Care Quality and Safety Commission (Commission) and write the service’s name and RACS ID on the back. If the cheque is for several services please write the RACS ID and fee being paid for each service and/or send us a remittance advice as described above for EFT payments.

The fees set for cost recovery of accreditation services represent the best calculation of the total cost to complete the assessment and decision including a proportion of indirect costs to the Commission.

Fees for commencing and recommencing services

The application fee of $1,140 is the same for all commencing and recommencing services, regardless of the number of places.

Fees for accredited or previously accredited services (excluding recommencing services)

Applicable fee
$6,032 - Number of places = 1 - 9
$11,891 - Number of places = 10 - 80
$17,124 - Number of places = 81 - 160
$22,410 - Number of places = 161 +

The Commission is continuing a 50% reduction in re-accreditation fees for services under the Australian National Aged Care Classification funding model (AN-ACC) using proxies to identify eligible services.

These include: 

• Services categorised under the Modified Monash Model (MMM) as MMM 6 or MMM 7, regardless of the number of allocated places
• Services categorised as MMM 5 that have less than 40 allocated places, or services categorised as MMM 4 that have less than 30 allocated places
• Services approved as either specialised homeless or specialised Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander residential services for AN-ACC funding purposes by the Department of Health and Aged Care.

Services continue to receive a discount of 50% where they have less than 25 places. This has not changed. If a service has less than 25 places and meets the eligibility criteria for the proxy method under AN-ACC, then they would not be required to pay a reaccreditation fee.  

Please refer to the table below for application fees with discounts applied.

* If a service has less than 25 places and meets the eligibility criteria for the proxy method under AN-ACC, then they would not be required to pay a reaccreditation fee

For information on accreditation processes, see our Accreditation of commencing services and Re-accreditation of residential services pages.

Cost Recovery Implementation Statement

The Commission will be publishing a Cost Recovery Implementation Statement about the cost recovery for audits of approved providers by July 2025, and will engage in public consultation during the 2023-24 and/or 2024-25 financial years as part of this process.  Until this time, the fee schedule will remain as described in the section above Fees for accredited or previously accredited services (excluding recommencing services).  

The CRIS will outline the arrangements by which approved providers will pay fees and charges for the cost accreditation of those services, including details of any fee waivers.