The new NDIS Pricing Arrangements and Price Limits (PAPL) 2025-2026 have been released, with changes impacting multiple support areas.
Key changes include new price limits for support workers, some therapy supports and therapy travel claims. All changes apply from 1 July 2025.
The NDIA says the updated rates are designed to improve value, consistency and fairness across the NDIS. Here’s what you need to know.
Capacity Building supports.
From 1 July 2025, new national price limits will apply for physiotherapy, psychology, dietitian and podiatry supports. Different price limits for each state and territory will no longer apply.
Physiotherapy
- The new national hourly price limit is $183.99
- This represents a decrease in all states and territories.
Psychology.
- The new national hourly price limit is $232.99
- This is an increase of $10 in NSW, VIC, QLD and the ACT but a decrease in other locations.
Dietitians and podiatrists.
- The new national hourly limit is $188.99
- This is a decrease of $5 an hour.
Changes to therapy travel claim rules.
From 1 July 2025, updated travel claim rules apply to therapy providers:
- Labour costs for travel will be capped at 50% of the hourly therapy price limit
- Existing claiming rules, including time-based limits by remoteness, still apply
- Non-labour travel costs (e.g. tolls, parking, vehicle wear and tear) remain claimable.
How might this look for a therapy provider?
Example – OT home visit and travel.
An Occupational Therapist (OT) visits a participant’s home for a 1-hour appointment.
The OT charges $193.99 per hour.
The participant lives in a standard area (MMM 3).
It takes the OT 15 minutes to travel to the home. They can claim $24.24 for this travel time (15 minutes is 0.25 of an hour).
The total for the visit is $193.99 for the appointment plus $24.24 for travel.
If this is the OT’s last appointment for the day and they are paid to travel back to the office, they can also claim another $24.24 for that return travel.
Increase for Level 1 support coordination.
Price limits for the following supports will be indexed from 1 July 2025 in line with the Disability Support Worker Cost Model:
- Level 1: Support connection
- Psychosocial recovery coaching.
There are no changes to pricing for:
- Level 2: Coordination of supports
- Level 3: Specialist support coordination.
Plan management pricing updates.
Several updates to plan management pricing will also take effect on 1 July 2025.
- The monthly fee will remain at $104.45
- The one-off establishment fee of $232.35 will be removed
- Remote and very remote loadings will be removed, with a consistent national price applied.
Core Supports.
Pay rise for some disability support workers.
From 1 July 2025, NDIS support workers funded under the Disability Support Worker (DSW) Cost Model will receive a 3.95% pay rise.
This increase reflects changes to minimum wages under the Social, Community, Home Care and Disability Services Industry Award 2010, as well as an increase to the Superannuation Guarantee.
Nursing and household supports.
According to DSC, price limits for some supports not covered by the DSW model have increased by 3.2%, including:
- Disability-related nursing supports
- Assistance with personal domestic activities
- Specialised home based assistance for a child
- House cleaning and other household activities
- House or yard maintenance.
Early childhood age limit lifted from 7 to 9.
The NDIS Early Childhood Approach will now support children under nine years old, instead of stopping at age seven.
This means families can now access early childhood supports for longer, including help from a key worker and services that focus on building everyday skills at home and in the community.
All supports must meet NDIS Practice Standards and Quality Indicators for Early Childhood Supports.
Future pricing reviews to be released earlier.
To give participants and providers more notice, the NDIA will bring forward the release of future Annual Pricing Reviews. The pricing updates will be reviewed and shared earlier in the year, well before the new financial year starts.
Want to know more about the changes?
You can read the full 2025-26 NDIS Pricing Arrangements and Price Limits on the NDIS website.
Have questions about how these changes affect your NDIS Plan? Talk to the Leap in! Crew on 1300 05 78 78 or email [email protected].
