The Independent Health and Aged Care Pricing Authority (IHACPA) has awarded the $1.6 million contract for the 2025 Support at Home Cost Collection to Scyne Advisory – the consultancy firm spun out of PwC in 2023 and now owned by private equity firm Allegro Funds.

Scyne takes over from global firm Ernst & Young, which conducted the previous cost collection in 2024. Scyne is already known to IHACPA, having led the Residential Aged Care Costing Study in 2023.

The 2025 Cost Collection will be based on 2023-24 data and will inform the prices for Support at Home services in 2026-27. IHACPA is expected to deliver its final pricing advice to Government by July 2026.

According to IHACPA’s 2025-26 Work Program and Corporate Plan, released in June, the Support at Home Cost Collection will be completed by December 2025, with the final report submitted to Government by April 2026.

IHACPA has already provided pricing advice for 2025-26 Support at Home services to the Minister, a spokesperson confirmed to The SOURCE.

Separately, IHACPA’s 2025 Residential Aged Care Cost Collection will also conclude by December 2025, with pricing advice due to Government in August 2026.

The Work Program also reveals that IHACPA is reviewing the way it calculates subsidies for hotelling services in residential aged care, amid ongoing claims that current rates fail to cover provider costs.