AAPi Member Survey – NDIS Annual Pricing Review 2027

AAPi Member Survey – NDIS Annual Pricing Review 2027–28
The NDIA’s Annual Pricing Review for 2027–28 is now underway. AAPi will be making a submission and wants to hear directly from psychologists about the realities of delivering NDIS services.

Your feedback will help inform AAPi’s advocacy on pricing, provider registration, workforce arrangements and other settings that affect participant access to quality psychological services and the sustainability of psychology services within the NDIS.

Pricing and sustainability
4. What are the biggest pricing or funding issues affecting your ability to provide NDIS services?
5. Are there activities necessary to providing safe and effective psychological services that are not adequately funded or claimable under current NDIS arrangements?
For example, report writing, liaison, preparation, administration, travel, assessment, supervision or other non-face-to-face work.
6. Have current NDIS pricing or claiming arrangements affected your willingness or ability to provide services to NDIS participants? If so, how?

Differential pricing
7. The NDIA is considering approaches to differential pricing. If differentiated pricing were introduced, what factors do you think should influence pricing for psychology services?

Other
Please tell us why you selected this option and how you think differential pricing could work in practice.

Provider registration
8. What has your experience been with the current NDIS provider registration process?

Other
9. What are your thoughts on the current registration process, and what changes would make it easier or more appropriate for psychologists to become and remain registered NDIS providers?

Provisional psychologists
10. Are you clear about how services delivered by provisional psychologists should currently be billed or claimed under the NDIS?
11. Do you currently employ, supervise or work with provisional psychologists who provide, or could provide, services to NDIS participants?

Other
12. If you employ or work with provisional psychologists, how do you think services they provide to NDIS participants should be priced and billed?
For example, should there be a specific provisional psychologist support item or price for services delivered by provisional psychologists? Should services provided by provisional psychologists, including those on placement, be claimable when provided under appropriate supervision? If so, should services be billed at the psychologist rate when appropriately supervised, at a different rate, or through another approach? Should the NDIS clarify its terminology around supervised and unsupervised practice or should another approach apply? What else should be considered?

Final feedback
13. What changes would you most like the NDIA to make through the 2027–28 Annual Pricing Review?
14. Is there anything else you would like AAPi to raise in our submission?
15. Please provide any examples, data or de-identified case studies that demonstrate the impact of current NDIS pricing, registration or claiming arrangements on psychologists or NDIS participants. Please do not include information that could identify an individual participant.
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AAPi Member Survey – NDIS Annual Pricing Review 2027–28