Aged Care (Consequential and Transitional Provisions) Rules 2025
24Service group home support, assistive technology or residential care—classification type hospital transition
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24 Service group home support, assistive technology or residential care—classification type hospital transition
(1) This section applies to the following classification levels, taken to be established for an individual by the CTP Determination: (a) HS HT class for the classification type hospital transition for the service group home support; (b) AT HT class for the classification type hospital transition for the service group assistive technology; (c) RC HT class for the classification type hospital transition for the service group residential care. (2) The classification level does not take effect for the individual unless: (a) immediately before the transition time, an episode of transition care had commenced but had not been completed for the individual; or (b) a registered provider starts delivering funded aged care services to the individual for the classification level within 28 days from the day the individual was approved as referred to in paragraph 2(2)(c) or 3(2)(d) (as applicable) of Schedule 2 to the CTP Act. (3) The period of effect for the classification level: (a) starts at: (i) for an individual referred to in subparagraph (2)(a)—the transition time; or (ii) for an individual referred to in subparagraph (2)(b)—the start of the start day for the individual for the classification level; and (b) subject to paragraph (c), consists of each day, on or after the day the period of effect starts for the individual, on which: (i) a registered provider delivers funded aged care services to the individual for the classification type for the service group; and (ii) the total of the following is less than the maximum period of effect for the classification level (see section 80‑65 of the new rules): (A) the number of days on which the individual had previously accessed funded aged care services for the classification type for the service group; (B) if, immediately before the transition time, an episode of transition care had commenced but had not been completed for the individual—the number of days in that episode that occurred before the transition time; and (c) ends at the earliest of the following (as applicable): (i) the end of the day a classification level for the classification type ongoing for the service group residential care takes effect for the individual; (ii) if, before the end of the maximum period of effect for the classification level (see section 80‑65 of the new rules), the total of the following is 7 days—the end of the most recent day on which the individual accessed funded aged care services for the classification type for the service group: (A) days on which the individual does not access funded aged care services for the classification type for the service group; (B) if, immediately before the transition time, an episode of transition care had commenced but had not been completed for the individual—days after the start of that episode and before the transition time on which the individual was not provided with flexible care in the form of transition care; (iii) the end of the maximum period of effect for the classification level (see section 80‑65 of the new rules); (iv) the end of the day the individual dies.