Updates NDIS Pandemic Plan and Payment Supports
The advance payment is part of the NDIS Pandemic Plan to ensure continuity of support to NDIS participants and the sustainability of disability service providers. This one-off payment is an advance (or prepayment) on payments for disability services which must be provided to NDIS participants to deliver reasonable and necessary supports approved in their plans. The advance payment has been calculated as approximately one-third of a provider’s cumulative payment claims processed via the NDIS myplace portal in the past three months (December 2019 – February 2020). This excludes a small percentage of claims, for example, plan management fees. The advance payment does not include:
• Plan managers
The increase in price limits is applicable to price controlled support items only. It does not apply to quotable supports. Support items with price limits listed under the following categories, with some exclusions, will have the 10 per cent increase applied to their price limits, from 25th March 2020: • Assistance with Daily Life (but not including Supported Independent Living) • Assistance with Social and Community Participation • Improved Health and Wellbeing (but not including personal training) • Improved Daily Living Skills. The price limit increases are being applied to existing support line items.
• Unregistered providers
The new price schedule also included:
The automatic advance payment will be made to certain registered NDIS providers.
Changes to the cancellation rules extending the period to 10 days
For more information: https://bit.ly/3drK04V BigDog has not accepted this offer as we are confident that we can continue to provide quality support without an advance. Editor 4
Introducing three new support coordination items under Core Supports. For more information: https://bit.ly/2xssYmr
