Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:F2025C00074:reg:4:p2
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:F2025C00074
Segment Type: reg
Provision Reference: reg 4 (pt 2/2)
Character Range: 12064–14252

home care by an approved provider through a home care service on 1 September 2021 is an ongoing home care recipient if the approved provider was providing home care to the care recipient through a home care service immediately before 1 September 2021.
package management:
 (a) means the activities that an approved provider of home care is required to undertake, by or under the Act:
 (i) in managing the provision of a package of care and services to a care recipient to whom the approved provider provides, or is to provide, home care; and
 (ii) in managing the quality of the care and services included in the package; and
 (b) does not include care management.
Note: Package management includes, for example, the following:
(a) activities required to comply with responsibilities under section 63‑1 of the Act (accountability);
(b) activities required to comply with standards set out in the Quality of Care Principles 2014;
(c) making claims for home care subsidy under section 47‑4 of the Act;
(d) the preparation of individualised budgets under section 21A of these principles;
(e) the preparation of financial information statements under section 21B of these principles;
(f) activities the Secretary requires of an approved provider when conducting an assurance review under Part 6.8 of the Act.
price, for the home care provided during a payment period to a care recipient by an approved provider, has the meaning given by section 99B of the Subsidy Principles 2014.
residential care setting has the meaning given by section 4 of the Subsidy Principles 2014.
short‑term restorative care has the meaning given by section 4 of the Subsidy Principles 2014.
specialist dementia care agreement means an agreement, between the Secretary and an approved provider of a residential care service, for the provision of specialist care for persons with very severe behavioural and psychological symptoms of dementia under the Specialist Dementia Care Program (a program under which the Commonwealth provides grants to some such providers to provide such care).
unspent home care amount has the meaning given by section 21C.

Part 2—Residential care services

Division 1—Purpose of this Part