Why Funding and Care Minutes Must Be Managed Together

A big part of your funding is based on your resident's AN-ACC case mix and care delivery. That case mix determines your required care minutes. Your care minute target determines the roster you need. Your roster drives your cost.

But too often, these elements are managed in isolation — funding by one team, rostering by another, and care minute compliance tracking somewhere else.

This disconnection leads to:

• Overdelivering care minutes without matching funding

• Underdelivering care minutes and getting penalised through reduced Care Minute Supplement (CMS)

• High-cost rosters that erode your net margin

• Missed opportunities to reclassify residents or plan new admissions to unlock additional New Entrant Funding (NEF).

What’s missing:

A unified strategy — where funding, care compliance, and workforce cost are planned and tracked together.

The solution?

We help providers manage these decisions holistically, using the FRE model as the foundation.