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The NDIS Price Guide, and How to Read It
It is called the NDIS Pricing Arrangements and Price Limits, it is reissued every financial year, and it decides the maximum you can charge. Here is how it is structured and how providers get caught out by it.
The Short Answer
What is the NDIS Price Guide?
The NDIS Price Guide is the old name for the NDIS Pricing Arrangements and Price Limits, published by the NDIA. It sets the maximum price that can be charged for each support item when a participant's plan is NDIA-managed or plan-managed, and the rules for claiming. It is reviewed every year, so always work from the current version.
01What It Is
A Ceiling on What You May Charge
The NDIA publishes a document setting maximum prices for NDIS supports. A registered provider may not charge an NDIS participant more than the price limit for the relevant support item, and the NDIA will not pay a claim above it.
It is a ceiling, not a rate. Nothing requires you to charge the maximum, and a provider who charges it by default without being able to explain the service behind it will find participants and plan managers comparing them unfavourably with somebody who can.
It is reissued each financial year and can be amended within one. The edition in force at the time this page was written is noted at the foot of the page — but the only safe practice is to download the current version yourself.
02Structure
How the Document Is Organised
Support categories
Grouped under Core, Capacity Building and Capital, matching how a participant’s plan is structured.
Support items
Each one has a long reference number, a description and a price limit. The reference number is what you claim against, and getting a digit wrong is a rejected claim.
Geographic variation
Price limits differ between standard areas and remote and very remote areas, reflecting the real cost of delivering there.
Rules, not just numbers
The document also sets the claiming rules — what counts as a cancellation, when travel and non-face-to-face time can be claimed, and what has to be agreed with the participant first.
03What Catches People
Four Expensive Misreadings
- Working from last year’s editionLimits and rules change between editions. A provider still quoting from a superseded guide is either leaving money on the table or charging above the cap.
- Treating the limit as the rateThe limit is the maximum. Your own pricing should be something you can justify, and it belongs in the service agreement before the work starts.
- Assuming travel and cancellations are claimable by defaultThey are claimable in defined circumstances and only where agreed. The rules are in the document, and "everyone does it" is not a defence at audit.
- Not reading it at allThe most common of the four. The rules section is where the avoidable disputes with plan managers live.
Deliberately. A figure copied into a web page is wrong the moment the next edition lands, and nobody notices for months. What we will do is make sure your registration groups and the support items you intend to claim against line up, so the document you download is one you can actually use.
Sources
Checked against these sources on 12 October 2026.
Make Sure Your Registration Matches What You Bill
Tell us what you deliver. We will check your registration groups line up with the support items you intend to claim against.
FAQ
Frequently Asked Questions
Where do I download the current price guide?
From ndis.gov.au, under pricing arrangements. The NDIA publishes it as a PDF and a spreadsheet; the spreadsheet is far more useful if you are building quotes or setting up your billing.
Can I charge less than the price limit?
Yes. The limit is a maximum. You can charge less, and in a competitive support category some providers do.
Can I charge more for a specialist service?
Not above the price limit for that support item, as a registered provider. If the service genuinely does not fit any existing item, that is a conversation to have before you deliver it rather than after you have invoiced for it.
Do price limits apply to self-managed participants?
Self-managing participants have more flexibility over what they pay. The price limits bind registered providers, and a plan manager will apply them. In practice, pricing well above the published limit is a conversation you will have to justify however the plan is managed.
Does the price guide tell me what I can register for?
No. The NDIA sets what it will pay for; the NDIS Commission sets what you are permitted to deliver. Registration groups come from the Commission. The two documents are related but they are not interchangeable.
Keep Reading
More NDIS Guides
- The NDIS, Explained for People Who Want to Work in ItHow the NDIS works for providers: the NDIA, the Commission, participants, plans and where your business sits.Read the guide →
- Supports Under the NDIS, and Which Ones You Can Be Paid FromCore, Capacity Building and Capital supports explained for providers: what each budget funds, how flexible…Read the guide →
- What NDIS Registration Actually CostsThe real cost of NDIS registration: the Commission charges nothing, a consultant charges a fee, an auditor…Read the guide →
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The current edition at the time of writing was the NDIS Pricing Arrangements and Price Limits for 2026–27, published by the NDIA and effective 24 September 2026. Checked 7 October 2026. Always download the current edition from ndis.gov.au rather than relying on figures reprinted anywhere, including here.
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