Search the NDIA’s published price limits by support name or by the item number on your plan.
Figures are the NDIA’s published price limits from the NDIS Pricing Schedule 2026-27 (version 1.2, effective 1 July 2026) — the most the NDIA considers reasonable for a support, not NurseCare Connect’s prices. Items at $1.00 are notional: the actual cost is claimed as units. The plain-English notes are our own summaries to help you find the right item, not advice on what can be claimed. Check the current schedule on ndis.gov.au before relying on any figure.
Every support has one, and it is the same number on your plan, on our quote and on the invoice. It is five parts, separated by underscores.
The category at the front is the original numbering. PACE later split several categories out and the item numbers were never reissued to match, so home and living supports all still start 01_ even though a current plan lists them under Home and Living, category 16. Nothing in the number tells you which: 01_450_0107_1_1 is assistance with daily life and 01_450_0115_1_1 is home and living. The same applies to specialist disability accommodation (17, still under 06_), assistive technology maintenance (19, under 05_) and behaviour support (20, under 11_).
Every figure here is a ceiling, not a quote. It is the most the NDIA considers reasonable to charge for a support, and agency-managed and plan-managed claims cannot go above it. It is not a recommended price, and it is not what NurseCare Connect charges — a provider may charge the limit, or less, and different providers charge differently for the same item number. What we charge is the price written into your service agreement, agreed with you before any support starts, and that is the only figure you are committed to. Nothing here changes an agreement already in place. If you are comparing quotes, compare the agreed prices rather than these limits.
Provider travel and activity based transport are listed at $1.00 a unit. That is a placeholder, not a price — the claim is the number of units that matches the actual cost, within the rules in the NDIS Pricing Arrangements.
Because those items have no real unit price, the rate per kilometre is something we agree with you and write into your service agreement. We normally set it at the vehicle allowance in the SCHADS award, which is what we reimburse our workers for using their own car, and the guide defaults to that. The worker’s travel time is a separate thing again: it is claimed against the support item itself, not against this rate.
A one-off amount covering the work of setting a new participant up — the first visits, the planning, the paperwork and getting a roster in place. It is claimable once per participant per provider, so it applies when you first start with us and not again afterwards, and only alongside the personal care or participation supports it belongs to. Like everything else it has to be agreed in your service agreement before it can be claimed, and it is shown separately from the ongoing weekly charges so it is never mistaken for one. It is off by default in this tool — turn on “Include set-up fee” to add it. The NDIA sets conditions on when it can be claimed, so check the current Pricing Arrangements before relying on it.
Core is flexible: funding moves between daily life, transport, consumables and social and community participation as needs change through the year, so an amount sitting against one of them is a plan rather than a restriction. Home and living is stated, meaning it is tied to that purpose — it cannot be spent elsewhere, and nothing in it can be covered from the rest of Core. Capacity building is fixed to each of its categories, so funding for improved daily living cannot be spent on increased social and community participation. Capital is tied to the item it was approved for. A support coordinator checking a quote is really asking two questions: is the total within budget, and is it within the right budget.
The task can be identical — showering someone is showering someone. What decides it is the living arrangement. The same help given one to one in someone’s own home is assistance with daily life and the money is flexible, while support delivered on a roster in a shared arrangement is supported independent living, which sits in home and living and is stated in the plan. Specialist disability accommodation is a different thing again: it pays for the dwelling rather than the support, it comes from the Capital budget, and it has its own price list that is not in this guide.
This is version 1.2 of the NDIS Pricing Schedule 2026-27, published 22 July 2026 and effective 1 July 2026. The NDIA updates it, so check the current schedule on ndis.gov.au before you rely on a figure.