Anne Ruston (SA, Liberal Party, Shadow Minister for Health and Aged Care) Share this | Hansard source

Even though we don't know the number of people who are self-managing—if you're self-managing, how does that then work for you? If you're buying a service and that particular service has to come from somebody who's registered to provide that service, that price has been determined in terms of its efficient pricing on the basis of the IHACPA determination. If IHACPA had built the cost of administration into the price of the service, we know from experience—as we saw with the pricing in the NDIS—that registered providers of services are obviously going to be providing those services at the prices that have been determined by IHACPA. How does that work for people who self-manage in terms of the charge that they will incur for a service when they're doing their own administration?