Disclaimer: We are updating our fees and fee waiver criteria for the 2026–27 financial year. The Aged Care Rules must be amended before we can start charging and applying the new fees and fee waiver criteria.
The current fees and fee waivers from the 2025–26 financial year continue to apply until the Aged Care Rules are amended.
We have cost recovery arrangements (fees we charge providers) for assessing applications to:
- become a registered provider
- renew your registration
- vary your registration.
We also charge for any audits needed for these applications.
You can find out more information about the fees we charge on Registration fees.
Cost recovery is where government agencies charge fees to recover some or all of the efficient costs to do specific government activities. This can include providing goods, services or regulation, or a combination of these.
You can find more information about how government agencies should design, use and review charging in the Australian Government’s Cost Recovery Policy and Charging Framework.
Our cost recovery arrangements aim to be fair and robust.
Some providers are eligible to pay a reduced fee or no fee at all. These are called fee reductions or fee waivers.
They help providers to:
- start up and run their business in thin markets (where there aren’t many services operating)
- keep running their business even if they have financial viability risk (financial challenges).
They also support more First Nations providers in the aged care sector.
You can find out more information about fees and fee waivers or reductions on Registration fees.
Cost Recovery Implementation Statement
Our Cost Recovery Implementation Statement (CRIS) has information on how we charge for provider registration, registration renewal and provider requests to vary registration. It also includes details of fee waivers.
Download our current CRIS.
Each financial year we review our fees and update them to reflect our costs. For example, we apply indexation (automatic adjustment of prices) to keep up with inflation. We will publish a new CRIS each year to let you know what the updated fees are.
A staged approach under the Aged Care Act 2024
In the 2024–25 Budget, the Australian Government agreed to a 2-stage approach for cost recovery under the Aged Care Act 2024 (Aged Care Act).
Stage 1 started on 1 November 2025 and covers fees we charge under the Aged Care Act. It focuses on regulatory activities similar to those providers already pays fees for.
Stage 2 covers the fees we will charge from 1 July 2029. We’ll consult on these fees closer to that time.
More information
Find out more about fees:
- Cost Recovery Implementation Statement
- guide and scenarios
- factsheet
- use our online fees calculators to help you to estimate your fees
- Learn about our Cost recovery consultation.
If you have any questions about cost recovery or fees, please contact us on info@agedcarequality.gov.au or by calling 1800 951 822.