Review into fund’s nursing home price mechanism

A review of how the National Treatment Purchase Fund negotiates prices with private and voluntary nursing homes under the Fair Deal scheme is almost complete.

Review into fund’s nursing home price mechanism

NTPF chairman John Horan told the Oireachtas Public Accounts Committee, that proposals on the “pricing mechanism” would be presented to the Departments of Health and Public Expenditure and Reform in a “matter of weeks”.

Mr Horan said a decision would be made to either move to a new pricing system, stay with the existing one, or just “tweak” it.

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