The Scheme Brief. Australia's disability sector. The Scheme Brief. Australia's disability sector.

Pricing + funding

Pricing + funding

The Pricing Schedule, the addenda and the scheme's money, read from the documents themselves.

Pricing + funding

NDIS price limits now have legislative effect under a ministerial determination. The maximums do not apply to self-managed participants

The first section 45C determination, made 16 September, adopts the 2026-27 Pricing Schedules as maximum amounts for Agency-managed and plan-managed funding. Who it binds, what happens to a claim above the limit, and what the Act requires next.

7 October 2026

Pricing + funding

The PAPL is gone. What the new Pricing Schedule changes, and the Bill that would hand prices to the Minister

Prices, guidance and cost model are now three separate documents, and the Act passed in August 2026 makes price-setting a ministerial power. The new architecture, decoded.

19 July 2026