Current as of 28 September 2026. Checked against the Minister's pricing determination and the NDIS Pricing Schedule effective 24 September 2026.
Current hourly rates
These are the direct service hour price limits for 2026-27. They were published as NDIA guidance on 1 July 2026 and became statutory price limits on 24 September 2026, with no change to the figures.
Podiatry — National $188.99, Remote $264.59, Very Remote $283.49
Physiotherapy — National $183.99, Remote $257.59, Very Remote $275.99
Exercise physiology — National $161.99, Remote $226.79, Very Remote $242.99
Provider travel is billed at half the direct service rate: $94.50 for podiatry, $92.00 for physiotherapy, $81.00 for exercise physiology.
Confirm the figure against your specific support item numbers rather than the discipline name. Podiatry, for instance, appears under both 01_663_0128_1_3 and 15_619_0128_1_3 depending on the support category.
These are now statutory price limits
This changed on 24 September 2026, and it is worth getting right.
On 24 September the Minister for Disability and the NDIS, Mark Butler, made the first NDIS pricing determination under the NDIS Amendments (Securing the NDIS for Future Generations) Act 2026. The Minister is now the statutory decision maker for NDIS price limits, taking advice from the NDIA. A new NDIS Pricing Schedule, effective 24 September, sets out the limits.
The dollar figures did not change; the NDIA says the new limits align with the guidance it had already published. What changed is their legal standing. From 1 July to 24 September the 2026-27 figures were published as NDIA guidance, because the old Pricing Arrangements and Price Limits document had been replaced by a schedule framed that way, and this page said so at the time. They are now binding: the NDIA cannot pay a claim above the limit, providers cannot charge above it, and participants are not entitled to a payment above it.
The limits apply to NDIA-managed and plan-managed participants only. Self-managed participants are not bound by them. Any change to an existing service agreement still has to be agreed with the participant first.
What is coming
Differentiated pricing. The Government is consulting on setting different prices depending on whether a support is delivered by a registered or unregistered NDIS provider. The NDIA's 2026-27 Annual Pricing Review recommended it begin 1 January 2027.
SCHADS award changes. The Fair Work Commission's 11 September decision on Schedule E of the SCHADS award takes effect 1 December 2026. The NDIS says the 2026-27 Pricing Schedule will be updated later this year to reflect any required changes.
Where the rules went
The Pricing Schedule is price tables only. The operational rules — provider travel, cancellation policy, MMM classification, how the remote loadings work — are not in it. For now they still live in the 2025-26 Pricing Arrangements and Price Limits document, which the NDIA keeps linked on its pricing arrangements page. The NDIA says it will shortly publish updated pricing and claiming guidance documents.
Until that guidance lands, if you are trying to work out whether you can charge a cancellation, you need the 2025-26 document.
Remote loadings
The published remote and very remote figures work out to exactly 140% and 150% of the national rate. The Pricing Schedule itself never states this in words. The 40% and 50% loadings are stated in the 2026-27 Annual Pricing Review report and in the superseded 2025-26 PAPL.
Plan indexation
There is no published participant plan indexation note for 2026-27. If you find a reference to plans being indexed on 13 July, check the date on it — that statement dates from 2024 and is still circulating.
Everything else
NDIS is one of five payers we track. For DVA, Medicare and the state workers compensation schemes, start at The Billing Reference, which carries the current status of every schedule in one place.
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