NDIS NEWS

extensive benchmarking analysis suggest the current NDIS price limit of $193.99 is above the average fully loaded hourly cost of most types of therapy professionals. This may not reflect the experience of participants on the ground, who often struggle to find allied health and therapy services. Or the therapists that choose to remain unregistered because the NDIA price cap doesn’t cover the costs of being registered.

The NDIA’s comparison to other government therapy schemes and private billing rates suggest that NDIS price limits for therapies remain competitive. The Agency also says they have invested significantly in the therapy market, with the amount claimed rising by 26% to $1.6 billion July-December 2022, compared to the same period in the year prior.

Support Coordination and Plan Management Supports

Level 1 support connection will be indexed in line with the NDIS DSW Cost Model. We often say not many people access support connection, and the Pricing Review confirmed that only 777 participants used support connection in the 6 months prior to December 2022 compared to more than 200,000 participants using support coordination (level 2).

After “careful market analysis and consultation” - that phrase again - there will be no adjustment to the pricing for support coordination level 2 and 3 (that’s support coordination and specialist support coordination), or for plan management. This will be disappointing to many providers and sole traders who are seeing the complexity of their role grow.