NDIS Pricing Schedule 2026-27: every rate that changed

On 1 July 2026 the NDIA replaced the Pricing Arrangements and Price Limits — the PAPL that providers and plan managers had worked from for years — with a new document called the NDIS Pricing Schedule 2026-27. The name is not the only thing that changed: every support-worker price limit rose 4.8%, psychology rose 8.6%, and three supports were cut.

This page is the like-for-like comparison — what each support cost under the old 2025-26 arrangements, what it costs now, and what actually drove each movement. If you only need the current number, the price guide has the full searchable table.

Support worker rates: everything up 4.8%

National / standard geographic area. Remote attracts a 40% loading, very remote 50%. These are the limits for "assistance with self-care activities" and "assistance with social, economic and community participation" at standard intensity.

The 4.8% is not arbitrary. The NDIA states the Schedule follows the Fair Work Commission's Annual Wage Review, which lifted award wages 4.75% from 1 July 2026, plus the increase in the superannuation guarantee to 12%. Because only part of a price limit is the worker's wage, the price movement and the wage movement are never identical — they happen to land close together this year.

Supported independent living tracks the same number. The SIL line items are set at $73.58 for weekday daytime, identical to standard self-care. That matters this year because SIL providers are simultaneously being brought into mandatory registration.

High-intensity support

High intensity sits about 8% above the standard rate and moved by the same 4.8%. It is not a label a provider can simply elect — it has to match the support actually delivered, and the worker must hold the relevant high-intensity skills descriptor.

Therapy: two rises, several freezes, three cuts

This is the part of the Schedule with real consequences. Support workers got an across-the-board rise; allied health did not. Occupational therapy, speech pathology and physiotherapy have now held at the same number for a second year while wages, rent and insurance moved — a real-terms cut for those practices even though the headline figure is unchanged.

The three actual reductions matter more. Dietetics falls to $178.99 and exercise physiology to $161.99. The steepest is the "other professional" line item, down 19.5% to $156.16 — the same limit that now applies to counselling and art therapy. Any practice that has been billing mixed-discipline work against that item should re-model its hourly economics before the next quarter, not after it.

Therapist travel follows the rate. Provider travel is still billable at 50% of the hourly limit, so it moved with each support: psychology and behaviour support travel to $126.50, OT and speech hold at $97.00, physiotherapy at $92.00, dietetics down to $89.50, exercise physiology down to $81.00.

Nursing, coordination and plan management

Support coordination and plan management did not move at all. All three coordination levels and the plan-management monthly fee are unchanged for a second year. Plan management remains a flat $104.45 a month with no setup fee (removed 1 July 2025) and no per-claim fee — if you are being invoiced a per-claim charge, that is not a Schedule item.

What providers have to do about existing service agreements

A price limit changing does not automatically change what you may charge an existing participant. The Schedule is explicit: providers must discuss proposed changes to existing service agreements with participants, and participants must agree to the changes.

In practice that means a provider who wants to move a participant from $70.23 to $73.58 has to raise it, explain it, and get agreement — not simply re-rate the next invoice. If your invoice went up on 1 July without that conversation, it is reasonable to ask for the service agreement variation in writing.

The bigger change sitting behind the numbers

The Schedule's own Background section flags something more structural. It is published against the NDIS Amendment (Securing the NDIS for Future Generations) Bill 2026, introduced to Parliament on 14 May 2026, which would give the Minister for the NDIS power to make a pricing determination — setting maximum prices, or the method for calculating them, as a binding instrument rather than guidance.

Today the Schedule is the NDIA's view of appropriate and reasonable maximum prices. If the Bill passes, that view would instead inform ministerial advice, and prices would be set by determination. We cover the Bill in detail in our explainer on the Securing the NDIS for Future Generations Bill.

How to verify this information

These are regulated figures that change at least annually. Check any number against the source before you rely on it:

• The official document is the NDIS Pricing Schedule on ndis.gov.au. The 2026-27 edition took effect on 1 July 2026; the full PDF is 98 pages and every figure on this page was read directly from it on 25 July 2026.
• For a specific line item, the NDIS Support Catalogue (linked from the same page) is the cent-precise authority, including the remote and very-remote columns.
• If a figure here and a figure on ndis.gov.au disagree, the NDIA is right and we are wrong — tell us and we will correct it.