NDIS Price Limit History
- Support Catalogues 2019-20 to 2026-27
- 14 supports tracked
- Mid-year changes marked
Support
Price limit, 2026-27
Self-care, weekday daytime
In force under the NDIS (Pricing Arrangements) Determination 2026. The Pricing Schedule took effect on 24 September 2026; the support items apply from 1 July 2026.
National (non-remote) price limit at 1 July, from the NDIA Support Catalogue for each year.
Self-care, weekday daytimean hour, national
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+39.2%
Self-care, weekday daytime, 2019-20 to 2026-27
$52.85 to $73.58 an hour
+9.6%
Biggest one-year rise: Self-care, public holiday, 2022-23
$126.11 to $138.20 at 1 July
$100.14
Support coordination Level 2, unchanged since 1 July 2020
7 price lists in a row
$104.45
Plan management monthly fee, unchanged since 1 July 2020
7 price lists in a row
Mid-year changes
Price limits normally change on 1 July. These changed part way through a year.
- A
COVID-19 10% loading
25 Mar 2020 to 30 Jun 2020, temporary
Temporary 10% COVID-19 loading on price limits (Price Guide 2019-20 v2.2, effective 25 Mar 2020 to 30 Jun 2020).
Self-care weekday daytime went from $52.85 to $58.14 an hour. When it ended, the 2020-21 limit was $54.30.
Changed: Self-care, weekday daytime; Self-care, weekday evening; Self-care, weekday night; Self-care, Saturday; Self-care, Sunday; Self-care, public holiday; Community access, weekday daytime; Physiotherapy; Occupational therapy.
No change: Support coordination Level 2; Specialist support coordination Level 3; Plan management monthly fee; Plan management set-up fee.
- B
Equal Remuneration Order increase
From 1 Dec 2020
Price Guide 2020-21 v2.0: price limits increased for 369 support items as a result of the Equal Remuneration Order.
Self-care weekday daytime went from $54.30 to $55.47 an hour.
Changed: Self-care, weekday daytime; Self-care, weekday evening; Self-care, weekday night; Self-care, Saturday; Self-care, Sunday; Self-care, public holiday; Community access, weekday daytime; Psychosocial recovery coaching, weekday daytime.
No change: Support coordination Level 2; Specialist support coordination Level 3; Plan management monthly fee; Plan management set-up fee; Physiotherapy; Occupational therapy.
- C
Temporary COVID increase
1 Jan 2022 to 30 Jun 2022, temporary
Temporary COVID price increase for Daily Personal Activities and community participation items, 1 Jan 2022 to 30 Jun 2022 (PAPL 2021-22 v1.4/v1.5).
Self-care weekday daytime went from $57.10 to $57.23 an hour. When it ended, the 2022-23 limit was $62.17.
Changed: Self-care, weekday daytime; Self-care, weekday evening; Self-care, weekday night; Self-care, Saturday; Self-care, Sunday; Self-care, public holiday; Community access, weekday daytime.
No change: Support coordination Level 2; Specialist support coordination Level 3; Plan management monthly fee; Plan management set-up fee; Physiotherapy; Occupational therapy; Psychosocial recovery coaching, weekday daytime.
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24 Nov 2025 update
PAPL 2025-26 v1.1 + Support Catalogue 2025-26 v1.1 (art/music therapy, Other Professional, COVID addendum removal, MMM update). None of the supports tracked here changed price.
Renamed, renumbered or removed
Read from each year’s Support Catalogue. Small spelling and punctuation changes are left out.
- Catalogue name “Assistance With Self-Care Activities - Standard - Evening” (2019-20), then “Assistance With Self-Care Activities - Standard - Weekday Evening” (2020-21 to 2026-27). During 2019-20 it was also listed as “Standard - Weekday Afternoon” (October 2019 to June 2020).
- Catalogue name “Assistance With Self-Care - Standard - Active Overnight” (2019-20), then “Assistance With Self-Care Activities - Standard - Weekday Night” (2020-21 to 2026-27).
- Catalogue name “Access Community, Social And Rec Activities - Standard - Weekday Daytime” (2019-20), then “Access Community Social And Rec Activities - Weekday Daytime” (2020-21 to 2021-22), then “Access Community Social and Rec Activ - Standard - Weekday Daytime” (2022-23 to 2026-27).
- Catalogue name “Level 2: Coordination Of Supports” (2019-20 to 2021-22), then “Support Coordination Level 2: Coordination of Supports” (2022-23 to 2026-27).
- Catalogue name “Level 3: Specialist Support Coordination” (2019-20 to 2021-22), then “Support Coordination Level 3: Specialist Support Coordination” (2022-23 to 2026-27).
- Catalogue name “Plan Management - Financial Administration” (2019-20 to 2021-22), then “Plan Management - Monthly Fee” (2022-23 to 2026-27).
- Catalogue name “Plan Management And Financial Capacity Building - Set Up Costs” (2019-20 to 2021-22), then “Plan Management - Set Up Costs” (2022-23 to 2024-25). Not in the 2025-26 Support Catalogue, so removed from 1 July 2025. Last price $232.35 in 2024-25.
- Catalogue name “Assessment, Recommendation, Therapy And/Or Training (Incl. AT) - Physiotherapy” (2019-20 to 2021-22), then “Assessment Recommendation Therapy or Training - Physiotherapist” (2022-23 to 2025-26), then “Therapy - Physiotherapist - Direct Service” (2026-27). No single national price from 2019-20 to 2024-25: one price for ACT/NSW/QLD/VIC and another for NT/SA/TAS/WA. One national price from 1 July 2025.
- Item number
15_056_0128_1_3(2019-20 to 2021-22), then15_617_0128_1_3(2022-23 to 2026-27). Catalogue name “Assessment, Recommendation, Therapy And/Or Training (Incl. AT) - Other Therapy” (2019-20 to 2021-22), then “Assessment Recommendation Therapy or Training - Occupational Therapist” (2022-23 to 2025-26), then “Therapy - Occupational Therapist - Direct Service” (2026-27). - Not in the 2019-20 Support Catalogue; first listed from 1 July 2020.
Every year at a glance
National price limit at 1 July, and the change on the year before. A letter marks a mid-year change.
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| Support | 2019-20 | 2020-21 | 2021-22 | 2022-23 | 2023-24 | 2024-25 | 2025-26 | 2026-27 |
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| Self-care | ||||||||
| Community access | ||||||||
| Support coordination | ||||||||
| Plan management | ||||||||
| Therapy | ||||||||
| Psychosocial recovery coaching | ||||||||
1 ACT, NSW, QLD, VIC2 NT, SA, TAS, WAWhere two percentages show, they compare each state price with the year before.
How to read the history
Each figure is the national (non-remote) price limit at 1 July of the financial year, taken from the NDIA’s Support Catalogue for that year. A price limit is the most a provider can charge for the support, not what every provider charges. Remote and very remote limits are not shown here.
Mid-year changes
Limits normally change once a year, on 1 July. Three changes for the supports tracked here landed mid-year: the COVID-19 10% loading (25 March to 30 June 2020), the Equal Remuneration Order increase (1 December 2020) and the temporary COVID increase (1 January to 30 June 2022). The chart draws them as steps, and the table marks them with a letter.
Same support, new name or number
- Occupational therapists claimed the general “Other Therapy” item until 30 June 2022, then their own item.
- Self-care weekday night (01_002) was called “Active Overnight” in 2019-20. The item number did not change.
- The plan management set-up fee is not in the price limits from 1 July 2025.
For the 2026-27 price of any support item, search the NDIS Price Guide. To price one shift by its time band, use the NDIS shift calculator.
What this tool follows
- NDIS pricing arrangements archive: the NDIA archive of past Price Guides, Pricing Arrangements and Support Catalogues
- NDIS pricing arrangements: the current 2026-27 documents
- NDIS Pricing Schedule 2026-27: effective 24 September 2026, under the NDIS (Pricing Arrangements) Determination 2026
- NDIS Price Guide 2019-20 + Support Catalogue 2019-20: effective 1 July 2019
- NDIS Price Guide 2020-21 v1.0.2 + Support Catalogue 2020-21 v1.0.2: effective 1 July 2020
- NDIS Pricing Arrangements and Price Limits 2021-22 v1.0 + Support Catalogue 2021-22: effective 1 July 2021; the archived catalogue is the 17 August 2021 release, its item start dates are 1 July 2021
- NDIS Pricing Arrangements and Price Limits 2022-23 + Support Catalogue 2022-23: effective 1 July 2022; the archive lists no 1 July 2022 catalogue, so this is the 1 October 2022 release, with item start dates of 1 July 2022
- NDIS Pricing Arrangements and Price Limits 2023-24 + Support Catalogue 2023-24: effective 1 July 2023; the archived catalogue is the 14 August 2023 release, its item start dates are 1 July 2023
- NDIS Pricing Arrangements and Price Limits 2024-25 v1.3 + Support Catalogue 2024-25 v1.2: effective 1 July 2024
- NDIS Pricing Arrangements and Price Limits 2025-26 + Support Catalogue 2025-26 v1.0: effective 1 July 2025
- NDIS Support Catalogue 2026-27 v1.1 + NDIS pricing schedule 2026-27: support items from 1 July 2026
- Price Guide 2019-20 v2.2 / Support Catalogue v2.2 (COVID-19 10% loading): mid-year 2019-20 change
- Price Guide 2020-21 v2.0 + Support Catalogue v2.0 (Equal Remuneration Order increase, 369 items): mid-year 2020-21 change
- PAPL 2021-22 v1.5 + Support Catalogue 2021-22 v1.3 (temporary COVID increase 1 Jan-30 Jun 2022): mid-year 2021-22 change
- PAPL 2025-26 v1.1 + Support Catalogue 2025-26 v1.1 (art/music therapy, Other Professional, COVID addendum removal, MMM update): mid-year 2025-26 update; the NDIA link now serves a later file, so this is the Internet Archive copy
General information only, not financial, legal or claiming advice. Always check a claim against the current official documents.
Questions people ask
How much have NDIS price limits risen since 2019-20?
Assistance with self-care on a weekday daytime (01_011_0107_1_1) had a national price limit of $52.85 an hour in 2019-20 and $73.58 in 2026-27, a rise of 39.2%. The Sunday limit went from $94.52 to $133.50 (41.2%). Not every support moved: support coordination and the plan management monthly fee have not changed since 1 July 2020.
Why was the 2020-21 price lower than the price in June 2020?
From 25 March to 30 June 2020 many price limits carried a temporary 10% COVID-19 loading (Price Guide 2019-20 v2.2). Self-care on a weekday daytime was $58.14 an hour while it applied. The loading ended on 30 June 2020, so the 2020-21 limit of $54.30 was lower than the loaded price, but still above the $52.85 limit at 1 July 2019. Support coordination and plan management did not get the loading.
Has the support coordination price changed?
Not since 1 July 2020. Support Coordination Level 2 (07_002_0106_8_3) has been $100.14 an hour, and Specialist Support Coordination Level 3 (07_004_0132_8_3) $190.54 an hour, in every Support Catalogue from 2020-21 to 2026-27. In 2019-20 they were $98.06 and $186.58.
Is there still a plan management set-up fee?
No. The set-up fee (14_033_0127_8_3) was $232.35 in the 2024-25 Support Catalogue. It is not in the 2025-26 Support Catalogue, and the 2025-26 Pricing Arrangements list only the Plan Management Monthly Fee, so there has been no set-up fee in the price limits from 1 July 2025. The monthly fee (14_034_0127_8_3) is $104.45, unchanged since 2020-21.
Why does physiotherapy show two prices before 2025-26?
From 2019-20 to 2024-25 the Support Catalogue had no single national limit for physiotherapy (15_055_0128_1_3). It was $193.99 an hour in the ACT, NSW, Queensland and Victoria, and $224.62 in the NT, SA, Tasmania and WA. From 1 July 2025 there is one national limit of $183.99.
Are the 2026-27 prices in force?
Yes. The 2026-27 figures are in force under the NDIS (Pricing Arrangements) Determination 2026. The NDIS Pricing Schedule 2026-27 took effect on 24 September 2026, and the support items in the 2026-27 Support Catalogue apply from 1 July 2026.
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