NDIS Price Guide 2026: What You Need to Know About Price Limits and Arrangements

[Updated on 31 Aug 2026: Now shows official NDIS Pricing Schedule 2026-27] 

The official NDIS price guide is 99 pages long. We’ve pulled out everything that actually matters, the rates, the rules, and what they mean for you, so you can spend less time reading policy and more time getting the right support in place.

Here’s everything you need to know about NDIS pricing arrangements and price limits in 2026.

What is the NDIS price guide?

The NDIS Price Guide, now officially called the NDIS Pricing Schedule, is the document that sets the maximum prices providers can charge for services and supports. It was previously published as the NDIS Pricing Arrangements and Price Limits (PAPL).

Key functions

• Price caps: It sets the maximum hourly or unit rates for things like therapy, support work, and equipment.
• Claiming rules: It defines the “fine print” for billing, such as how much travel time can be charged and rules for short-notice cancellations.
• Sustainability: It ensures the scheme remains affordable while making sure providers are paid fairly based on current wage awards.

NDIS rates went up 4.8%, here’s what changed

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Every July, the NDIA updates the maximum rates providers can charge. From 1 July 2026, most support worker rates increased by about 4.8%, the biggest single adjustment in a few years.

What that means: if you have been with the same provider for a year, their hourly costs will have gone up. A full weekday daytime personal care session that cost $70.23/hr last year now costs $73.58/hr. Not dramatic, but across a full plan it adds up.

How this affects NDIS participants

This is how the changes would affect you if you are an NDIS participant.

Your plan funding is set at review time. If rates have increased since your last review, your plan may not stretch as far as it used to.

Read our guide on how to use your NDIS funding effectively to get more from every dollar.

How this affects NDIS support coordinators

Now is a good time to review active participants’ budgets against the new rates. Participants with high-frequency personal care are most at risk of underfunding before their next review.

If you want to see what Homage charges, view our full NDIS pricing here.

NDIA-managed vs plan-managed vs self-managed plans

How a plan is managed changes who pays the bills, which providers are available, and whether price limits apply.

Not sure what type of plan management you have? Check your NDIS plan document. If you want more flexibility in choosing providers, ask about plan management at your next planning meeting. See how NDIS participants access Homage services.

Understanding your NDIS plan and budget types

An NDIS plan has three separate budget types: Core, Capacity Building, and Capital, and money generally cannot move between them.

Core: your everyday support budget

The most flexible budget. It covers personal care, community participation, domestic assistance, transport, and consumables.

Within your Core budget, most support types are interchangeable. If you need fewer community access hours and more personal care one month, that’s usually fine.

Capacity Building: skills, therapy and coordination

Funds supports that build independence over time: support coordination, therapy (OT, physio, speech, psychology), life skills development, and plan management.

Nursing supports (wound care, catheter care, PEG feeding, stoma care, injections) are also funded from Capacity Building.

Capital: equipment and modifications

One-off investments: assistive technology, home modifications, and Specialist Disability Accommodation (SDA). Tied strictly to specific approved items in the plan.

For NDIS participants, check that all three parts of your plan are being used.

Unused Capacity Building funds often don’t roll over. If you’re not using your support coordination or therapy budget, talk to your coordinator.

Personal care, community and coordination rates

Here are the rates that matter most for day-to-day support planning. All figures are national price limits under the NDIS Pricing Schedule 2026-27, effective 1 July 2026. For Homage’s specific pricing, see our NDIS pricing page.

Assistance to daily life

Community participation

Support coordination and plan management

Support coordination and plan management rates did not change on 1 July 2026.

Nursing and complex care rates

This is the section most people skip, but it’s one of the most valuable parts of the NDIS for participants with complex health needs.

If an NDIS participant has wounds that need dressing, a catheter, a PEG tube, a stoma, or needs injections at home, all of that can be delivered by a qualified nurse through Homage’s home nursing service using NDIS funding. No hospital visit required.

These supports are claimed under Capacity Building: Improved Daily Living (category 15). Rates depend on the nurse’s qualification level, and rose by about 3.6% on 1 July 2026.

You don’t have to manage complex health needs alone or rely on outpatient clinics. A qualified nurse can come to you at home. Homage offers wound care and dressing, catheter management, PEG feeding, stoma care and injection assistance.

Ask your support coordinator whether nursing supports are in your plan.

For NDIS support coordinators

Most NDIS providers can’t deliver clinical nursing procedures. If a participant needs any of these supports, you need a provider like Homage, that has qualified nurses on staff with clinical experience for complex cases.

Why timing your supports matters more than you think

For support workers

Weekday daytime (6am to 8pm) is the standard rate. Weekday evening (8pm to midnight) and weekday night (midnight to 6am) attract higher rates.

A Sunday session costs nearly double a weekday daytime one, which has real implications for participants using respite care over weekends.

For nurses, the windows are slightly different

Weekday daytime applies to supports starting before noon and finishing the same day. Weekday evening starts from noon and finishes after 6pm. Weekday night starts from 6pm and finishes before 7:30am the following day.

If your support runs near the 8pm boundary on weekdays, ask your provider which rate applies. Shifting a session to finish by 8pm avoids billing surprises.

Cancellation rules: avoid losing funding unnecessarily

Providers can charge for a session that’s cancelled without enough notice. That means funding comes out of the participant’s plan even though no support was delivered.

The notice period depends on the support type.

NDIS Price Guide 2026: FAQs

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