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

Providers

Providers + workforce

Who delivers the scheme: the provider market, its structure and its workforce, from the agencies' own datasets.

Providers

Plan managers will need a deed with the NDIA and may provide no other NDIS supports. Here is the market the Agency described to the Senate

What Schedule 2 Part 6 of the August Act does when a Proclamation starts it: a deed of arrangement with the NDIA, plan management only, a public register, and 6 months for existing plan managers. Beside it, the NDIA’s written answers to the Senate committee on the market: 1,584 active plan managers sorted by fees, rejected claims by year, and Manual Payment Review counts.

7 October 2026

Providers

The national NDIS market has never been less concentrated. In Far West NSW, the top ten providers hold 54 per cent

The NDIA’s own concentration data shows a 5 per cent national top-ten share, and a thin-market map that leaves the NT at 27 per cent and one NSW district at 54. Charted, with a methodology note.

19 July 2026