What's changed in the 2026-27 Pricing Schedule?
The National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) Annual Pricing Review (APR) examines what are considered appropriate NDIS prices for the 2026-27 financial year. It considers market conditions, costs, and participant outcomes to ensure pricing remains sustainable, fair, and value driven.
This guidance is then used to inform the NDIS Pricing Schedule and Support Catalogue. This year there has been a few updates, so read on to find out what's changed and if you have any questions just let us know.
Changes for the 2026-27 year
Reviewing the disability support worker (DSW) cost model
The maximum prices for disability support workers has increased in line with recent changes to the minimum wage. The national recommended hourly rate for a standard Level 1 support delivered during weekday daytime hours is now $73.58.
An increase was also passed on to psychosocial recovery coaching, with a new maximum price of $110.44 per hour.
New support worker line items
The updated Pricing Schedule has introduced specific line items for DSW services, there are four:
- Level 1: Standard levels of care, STA, SIL, community and group activities.
- Level 2: High intensity levels of self-care, STA, SIL, community and group activities. This level is for complex behaviour supports.
- Level 3: Guidance and support for carers and parents, support with transitioning through school and further training, employment support and assistance, individual social skills development, development of practical life skills, support with life transition planning, assistance with accommodation and tenancy responsibilities, and capacity building in self-management and plan management.
- Level 4: Psychosocial recovery coaching and assistive technology mentoring.
Support Coordination and Plan Management fee unchanged
Recommended maximum prices for Support Coordination and Plan Management services are not changing.
You won’t pay any more or less for your Support Coordination and Plan Management, these will still be paid separate to your other supports, from your NDIS plan, at no extra cost to you.
A change is coming from 1 January 2027
From 1 January 2027, recommended maximum prices for Social, Community and Civic Participation supports delivered by unregistered providers will decrease by 10%. This also applies to relevant high-intensity supports and associated claims, such as provider travel, non-face-to-face supports, short-notice cancellations and activity-based transports.
Recommended maximum prices for registered providers delivering these supports will remain unchanged.
If you use an unregistered provider for these supports, it may be worth talking with them before January about whether the change will effect your service agreement or the way your supports are delivered.
Short Term Accommodation (STA) to be unbundled
The current pricing guidance for STR (bundled):
- Accommodation, food, utilities and DSW costs are combined into a single daily claim, without separating disability-related supports and non-disability living costs, such as food and utilities.
NEW pricing guidance for STR from 1 July (unbundled):
- STR will be unbundled, with separate line items for accommodation and support-related costs. Allowing claims to reflect the actual hours, timing and intensity of the support delivered.
- In short, providers will need to itemise and claim each component of an STR stay individually based on the support actually delivered, the number of hours, time of day and level of intensity, rather than claiming one bundled rate.
Once separated from the support costs, the accommodation part of STR should be aligned with the existing price for Medium Term Accommodation (MTA) at $162.85. Food, utilities and activities should not be included.
Adjustments to nursing and capital supports
Prices for Nursing and certain other supports increased in line with increases in wages and living costs. This adjustment doesn’t apply to disability support worker services, capital supports or supports reviewed separately.
Additional Therapy-related line items
Separate line items have been introduced for claiming non-face-to-face therapy support provision, including activities such as:
- Direct services
- Cancellations
- Non-face-to-face services
- Provider travel
- Telehealth
- NDIS-requested reporting.
These line items would allow non-face-to-face activities to be claimed and recorded separately, with the goal of improving transparency and accuracy in claiming.
Some changes to allied health caps and line items
The below updates to price caps have been announced, all other allied health price caps have stayed the same.
- The price cap for dietetics services has decreased by 7.7%.
- Pricing for “other professional” supports has dropped by nearly 19.5%.
- Exercise physiology rates have been reduced by 3%, now set at $161.99.
- Fees for psychology and specialist behaviour support have increased by 8.6%, bringing the national rate to $252.99 per hour.
- All remaining allied health price caps have stayed the same.
Other rate changes
- The price for supports delivered by an Orientation and Mobility Specialist should be a maximum of $156.16 per hour.
- The price for supports delivered by ‘Other Professionals’ (not including Early Childhood supports) should be a maximum of $156.16 per hour.
An easier way to find and view current price limits
Our Price Guide Navigator allows you to navigate the NDIS Price Guide easily in one simple search. Browse by support category or search for a particular product, service or code to get the info you need, including price limits, whether a quote’s required, whether providers can charge for travel, and more.
Read more about the pricing schedule
Read the full NDIS Pricing Review
The information in this article is correct at the time of writing but may be subject to change over time.