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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 1997 Week 12 Hansard (13 November) . . Page.. 4227 ..

ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS

QUESTIONS ON NOTICE

4 November 1997

(30 days expires 4 December 1997)

Coordinated Care Trial

*474 MR CORBELL: To ask the Minister for Health and Community Care - In relation to the ACT Coordinated Care Trial, what costs are participants required to meet as part of the trial, in particular is there any joining fee for people wishing to participate in the trial and if so, (a) how is the money collected (from such a joining fee) distributed and (b) to whom.

MRS CARNELL: The answer to the Member's question is:

There is no joining fee for people wishing to participate in the ACT Coordinated Care Trial.

The ACT Coordinated Care Trial is focusing on people with ongoing complex health problems who require a range of health and community services and may benefit from better coordination of the services.

These people often pay a fee or co-payment for some of the services they currently receive. With better care coordination, individuals may receive a changed level, or mix, of services. Some individuals may therefore receive an increase in services for which there is a co-payment while others will have a decrease in these services.

The ACT Coordinated Care Trial does not collect or distribute any such co-payment or fee. Co-payments from participants of the ACT Coordinated Care Trial are collected and administered by each service provider in exactly the same way as for other clients of that particular service.

Under the National principles for the Coordinated Care Trials, agreed by the ACT, trials will maintain the broad proportional contribution from clients, from private insurers and from Governments.

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