The NDIA published the NDIS Pricing Schedule for 2026-27 with new rates taking effect from 1 July 2026. For NDIS participants, families and anyone involved in managing participant supports, these pricing changes shift what allied health services cost, how travel is billed and how telehealth and reports are itemised. Here is a plain-English breakdown of everything that affects the allied health services participants use.

What Is the NDIS Pricing Schedule and Why Does It Change Each Year?

The NDIS Pricing Schedule is published annually by the NDIA following the Annual Pricing Review and the Fair Work Commission's Annual Wage Review decision. It sets the maximum prices providers can charge for NDIS-funded supports. Providers can charge at or below these rates, but not above them.

The schedule does not set what participants pay directly. It caps what providers can bill against a participant's plan budget. When rates change, participants and providers work through what those changes mean for the services being delivered.

Which Therapy Rates Have Changed From 1 July 2026?

Four therapy disciplines relevant to Allied Health 2U participants have changed in the 2026-27 schedule.

Psychology and Positive Behaviour Support have both increased by $20.00 per hour, moving from $232.99 to $252.99 per hour. This represents an 8.6 per cent increase and applies to direct service, telehealth, non-face-to-face work and NDIA requested reports.

Exercise Physiology has reduced by $5.00 per hour, moving from $166.99 to $161.99. The reduction is modest at 3 per cent.

Other Professional, which covers Psychotherapy, has seen the largest change in this year's schedule, dropping by $37.83 per hour, from $193.99 to $156.16. This is a 19.5 per cent reduction. For participants receiving Psychotherapy, this means plan budgets for this service will stretch further than before. The quality and scope of the service are unchanged. Only the price cap has moved.

Three Structural Billing Changes Affecting All Therapy Disciplines

Beyond the rate changes, the NDIA has made structural billing updates that apply across all therapy disciplines.

Provider travel is now billed as a separate line item. It can no longer be absorbed into the hourly session rate and must be invoiced separately using the relevant billing code at 50 per cent of the discipline's hourly rate. For Psychology and Positive Behaviour Support this is $126.50 per hour. For Exercise Physiology it is $81.00 per hour.

Non-face-to-face services and telehealth now have dedicated billing codes. These were previously bundled under the direct service rate and have been unbundled. Participants regularly receiving telehealth will see this itemised separately in their invoices.

NDIA requested reports also now have their own billing code, separate from routine clinical documentation.

What the Rate Changes Mean in Practice

For most participants, the practical impact of these changes falls into one of three areas.

Participants receiving Psychology or Positive Behaviour Support will see a modest increase in the per-hour cost of their sessions. Where a participant's plan budget for these services was calculated on the previous rate, the same number of sessions will now cost slightly more. Plans typically include contingency for annual pricing adjustments, so this rarely creates a shortfall, but it is worth being aware of.

Participants receiving Exercise Physiology will see a small reduction in per-hour cost. This means the same plan budget will stretch marginally further than before.

Participants receiving Psychotherapy will benefit the most from this year's changes. With a 19.5 per cent reduction in the price cap, the same plan budget will fund significantly more sessions than it did previously. For participants who have been rationing Psychotherapy sessions to stretch their budget, this year's changes create meaningful additional capacity.

What the Structural Billing Changes Mean in Practice

The three billing structure changes affect how allied health services appear on invoices, rather than how much a participant pays in total for the same service.

Provider travel as a separate line item means participants receiving mobile allied health services will see travel charges listed separately from session costs. The total cost of a session with travel is broadly unchanged; it is now just broken down into two lines rather than one.

Separate telehealth and non-face-to-face billing codes improve transparency. Participants can see exactly what proportion of their allied health support is being delivered via telehealth, face-to-face and non-face-to-face work such as report writing, case coordination and clinical planning.

Separate NDIA requested report billing distinguishes reports commissioned by the NDIA (as part of plan reviews or funding submissions) from routine clinical documentation. This clarifies what is being billed and why.

A Note on the NDIS Amendment Bill 2026

The 2026-27 Pricing Schedule was released alongside the NDIS Amendment (Securing the NDIS for Future Generations) Bill 2026, introduced to Parliament on 14 May 2026. If passed, the Bill would give the Minister for the NDIS the power to make binding pricing determinations. The current Pricing Schedule is expected to inform those determinations. For now, the 2026-27 schedule is the applicable reference document from 1 July 2026.

The full schedule is available on the NDIA website and the NDIS Quality and Safeguards Commission website.

Questions About These Changes?

The Allied Health 2U team is happy to talk through how the 2026-27 pricing changes affect the specific services a participant receives. Call 1300 24 2428 or send us a general enquiry and we will get back to you.