Richard Colbeck (Tasmania, Liberal Party, Minister for Aged Care and Senior Australians) Share this | Hansard source

The information I have is that when a person is hospitalised for more than 28 days the subsidy paid to the provider is reduced by 50 per cent, but, unlike a social leave, the consumer is not required to pay this. The consumer can be hospitalised for an unlimited number of days and will have no financial penalty as a result. You perhaps may be talking about additional fees, which are a different matter. They are paid in any circumstance, under any form of leave. That's a different matter again to the base fees, as I understand it.