NDIS price guide 2026–27, searchable.

Providers have long called the NDIA's Pricing Arrangements and Price Limits (PAPL) “the price guide”. From 24 September 2026 the maximum prices come from a different instrument. The NDIS Amendment (Securing the NDIS for Future Generations) Act 2026 lets the Minister for the NDIS make a pricing determination by legislative instrument. The NDIA's role is to advise the Minister on pricing. The first determination was registered on 23 September 2026. It incorporates the NDIS pricing schedule 2026-27 under section 45C of the NDIS Act.

What has not changed is who the limits apply to and how they work:

• The maximums apply to NDIA-managed and plan-managed supports.
• The NDIA can't pay a claim above the limit and providers can't charge more than it.
• Every maximum already includes any GST.
• Limits apply per unit of measure, which is usually an hour but can be each, day, week or month.

The schedule has four parts: Part 1 sets out how the maximum amounts work, Part 2 has the price tables in seven appendices, Part 3 lists the isolated towns, and Part 4 has the definitions, including time of day and day of week. Specialist disability accommodation is priced in a separate SDA schedule.

Part 1 also sets four rules that apply across the tables. Limits can differ by complexity and intensity, by geographic location, by day and time, and for group supports, where you divide the limit by the number of people in the group. When a support by a single worker crosses two time bands, the higher limit applies to the whole support.

Every support item number has five parts separated by underscores, plus a suffix for claim-type items. Once you can read it, you can tell the budget, registration group and purpose of a line on an invoice at a glance.

Open any item from the search to see its full number decoded, its national, remote and very remote limits and its 2025–26 comparison. For example, 01_011_0107_1_1 is Assistance With Self-Care Activities - Standard - Weekday Daytime.

Appendix 1 groups support worker items into four levels, each costed from a classification in Schedule B of the SCHADS Award. The level reflects the skill and experience the support needs, not the worker's own pay grade. To check what you pay staff against what you can claim, use the SCHADS pay calculator and the SCHADS pay rates table.

Level 1 covers standard self-care, SIL, community and group activities and supports in employment. Level 2 covers the high intensity and intensive and complex behaviour versions of those supports. Level 3 covers capacity-building work such as skills development, life transition planning and employment assistance. Use the SIL roster of care tool to price a SIL home with both.

The 2026–27 schedule has no state or territory columns. Location pricing follows the Modified Monash Model (MMM), the Australian Government's seven-level classification from MM 1 (major cities) to MM 7 (very remote communities):

• MM 1–5: national limit.
• MM 6, or a town reclassified as remote in Part 3: remote limit.
• MM 7, or a town reclassified as very remote in Part 3: very remote limit.

What counts is the physical location where the support is delivered, regardless of the participant's usual address. If an item has no remote or very remote amount, it isn't eligible for a loading.

In this schedule, 611 of 612 items have a remote limit exactly 40% above the national limit, and 611 have a very remote limit 50% above it. Items that differ include Plan Management - Monthly Fee. Always read the remote figure from the item rather than applying a percentage yourself.

For worker travel to remote participants, the NDIS travel calculator applies the MMM travel caps.

In the PAPL, cancellations, non-face-to-face work, provider travel, NDIA-requested reports and telehealth were rules attached to a service item. In 2026–27 they have their own item numbers, made from the parent item number plus a suffix. There are 335 of them, all in Therapy and Professional Supports and Early Childhood Supports.

For example, 15_610_0128_1_3_PT (Therapy - Art Therapist - Provider Travel) has a national limit of $78.08, against $156.16 for the direct service 15_610_0128_1_3. Provider travel is 50% of the direct-service limit across the schedule.

Claim the suffixed item for that part of the work instead of the parent item. A short-notice cancellation goes on the _CA item, not the direct-service item. The cancellation calculator checks whether a cancellation is claimable, and the invoice generator puts each line on the right item.

Of the 277 service items, 246 can be compared with a 2025–26 limit: 182 went up, 17 went down and 47 stayed the same. The other 31 are new or renumbered, such as the 0138 SIL items. The median change was +3.6%. Most items moved in a few uniform steps rather than individually:

Support worker items rose with the DSW cost model, and therapy items moved in both directions. Some professions, such as psychology and specialist behaviour support, rose, while others, including art and music therapy and “other professional” items, fell. If you deliver therapy, check every item you claim and update your service agreements: an agreed price above the new limit can't be claimed.

Pricing schedule

The Minister's list of maximum prices for NDIS supports, part of the pricing determination. It replaced the PAPL from 24 September 2026.

PAPL

NDIS Pricing Arrangements and Price Limits: the NDIA's price guide up to 2025–26.

Price limit

The maximum amount, including GST, that can be claimed per unit for an NDIA-managed or plan-managed support.

Support item number

The code identifying a support: category, sequence, registration group, outcome domain, purpose and an optional claim-type suffix.

Registration group

The class of support a provider is registered for, such as 0107 Daily personal activities or 0138 Supported independent living.

Modified Monash Model

The seven-level remoteness classification (MM 1–7) used to decide between national, remote and very remote limits.

Isolated towns modification

Part 3 of the schedule: towns the NDIA reclassifies as remote or very remote for pricing.

DSW level

Disability Support Worker Level 1–4: groups of support worker items costed from SCHADS Award classifications.

Claim-type item

A suffixed item (_CA, _NF, _PT, _RR, _TH) for cancellations, non-face-to-face work, provider travel, NDIA-requested reports or telehealth.