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Indexation
Any unspent funds in your plan at the end of the financial year - 30 June - will be indexed to account for any increases in the cost of NDIS supports.
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NDIS Bereavement Addendum
The NDIS Bereavement Addendum is a supporting document that can be read in conjunction with NDIS Pricing Arrangements and Price Limits. It lists the support items that providers can claim after an NDIS participant has died.
NDIS price guide news
New NDIS Pricing Arrangements and Price Limits for 2022-2023
23 Jun 2022
The NDIS have released their Pricing Arrangements and Price Limits for 2022–2023. These will be effective as of July 1st 2022.
Stay tuned for a more in-depth information in future as we await more information from the NDIA regarding issues such as the indexation of plans.
Here are some of the key changes we observed:
Notable Changes
Short Notice Cancellations (page 22)
A cancellation will now be considered short notice if less than 7 clear days’ notice has been given. However, the service agreement between a provider and Participant will continue to take precedence. If providers have previously agreed to a shorter cancellation time, they will not be able to extend the notice period until a revised service agreement is accepted by the Participant.
Other Therapy (page 54-55 and page 93)
The line items for "other therapy" have been renamed "other professional". Separate line items have also been added for supports that were previously included under other therapy, such as occupational therapy and speech pathology.
Provider Travel from Core (page 19-22)
Core support providers can now claim for return trip from the Participant’s location back to the usual place of work. This brings the rules for Core provider travel in line with Capacity Building supports.
Modification of Modified Monash Model (page 26-27)
More locations have been classified as “remote” and “very remote” for pricing purposes.
Price Increases
Support Work
The price limits for supports delivered by disability support workers have increased by 9%.
The price limits for TTP providers have also increased by 7% which means the loading on TTP supports has decreased from 4.5% to 3%.
Support Coordination (page 74)
Level 1 support connection observed an increase of 9% but there is currently no change for Level 2 and 3 Support Coordination.
Nursing (page 52)
Nursing supports have increased by 3%.
Legacy Supports
High Intensity Supports
High intensity supports previously had 3 levels, but these supports have now been simplified. Level 1 and Level 3 no longer exist with Level 2 prices being the baseline for the new “high intensity supports”.
This effectively means there are now only two levels for ‘Assistance with Self-Care Activities’ and ‘Access Community Social and Rec Activities’ - standard and high intensity.
Community Nursing Care
The line items 15_036_0114_1_3 and 15_051_0114_1_3 no longer exist. Now any nursing supports should be claimed through ‘Delivery of Health Supports by a Nurse’.
Training in Self Management
The line items for 07_003_0117_8_3 & 14_031_0127_8_3 no longer exist. Training in self-management would be accessed through Core using ‘Capacity Building and Training in Self-Management and Plan Management’.
If you would like more information regarding the new Pricing Arrangements and Price Limits visit the NDIA website here.
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Pricing Arrangements Update: Clarification surrounding subscription services
15 Dec 2021
Version 1.3 of the NDIS Pricing Arrangements and Price Limits 2021-2022 has been released!
What’s changed?
The NDIA has clarified their position on claiming for subscription-based services. A provider may claim for the cost of a support in advance using a subscription service, provided they meet the necessary conditions. For more information about these conditions, please check out the updated Pricing Arrangements document on the NDIS website.
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Did you know the NDIS Price Guide recently had an update?
15 Dec 2020
This included increased price limits for 369 support items and a simple new ‘yes or no’ checklist in the support catalogue to determine whether supports are eligible for: non-face-to-face support provision, provider travel, short notice cancellation, NDIA requested reports, irregular Supported Independent Living (SIL) supports.
As always, we have updated our handy pocket-sized NDIS Price Guide which shows you the major support item with a price cap along with its code at a glance. This is an invaluable tool that will save you flipping the 80+ page Price Guide for support items, codes and price caps, and one which we can send you in a hardcopy (please send us your postal address and how many copies you'd like) or downloadable format.
A support coordinator at a recent networking event told us she calls her IDEAL pocket-sized price guide “my bible” because she turns to it daily.
At IDEAL Plan Management, we pride ourselves on being the most knowledgeable plan managers in Australia. Sharing our knowledge facilitates choice and control for participants while making support coordinator’s jobs a little easier – we’re all about the client outcome.
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