Am I ready to be a provider?
Let us help you understand what is involved in becoming a registered provider and all the steps to begin the registration process.
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Provider readiness checklist
Let us help you understand what is involved in becoming a registered provider and all the steps to begin the registration process.
- Do I understand the goals of the NDIS and the role of registered providers?
- The NDIS is here to provide the necessary funding to people with a permanent and significant disability so they can access the services they need to live their life to the fullest.
- Do I provide supports and services that are funded under the NDIS?
- The NDIS has 15 support categories that are aimed at helping a participant complete daily living activities, support for an investment such as assistive technologies, equipment and home or vehicle modifications, or funding for capital costs.
- Do I understand the benefits of being a registered provider? You must register if you want to provide supports and services to NDIS-managed participants want and need from me or my organisation? Check out the benefits of becoming a provider here (link to above benefits page).
- Do I understand what NDIS participants need from me and my organisation?
- Some NDIS participants manage their funding themselves, some have a plan manager who helps keep track of funds, and some have NDIA-managed funding where the NDIA pays the providers on the participants’ behalf.
- Can I meet the formal requirements for becoming a registered provider?
- Providers need to meet a range of standards, codes of conduct and provide a range of documents to prove there are adequate management systems. You will also need to undergo an audit.
- Do I know how much I will get paid, and how I get paid, for the services I want to provide?
Depending on the type of participant, participants may pay the NDIS provider directly, be invoiced by the provider or the provider may need to submit a payment request through the provider portal. See the NDIS website for more information on getting paid.
NDIS Support Categories
There are 15 different support categories that NDIS providers can fall under. Supports and services delivered for NDIS participants should help people with disability have the same opportunities and things in life as other people, like a house, job, hobbies and the company of family and friends.
Supports and services fall into three categories: core, capital and capacity building.
- Core: Supports that help participants to complete daily living activities
- Capital: A support for an investment such as assistive technologies, equipment and home or vehicle modifications, or funding for capital costs.
- Capacity Building: A support that helps a participant build their independence and skills.
What services or supports can be delivered under the NDIS?
NDIS participants receive funding in their NDIS plans to access ‘reasonable and necessary’ services and supports to help them live a normal life and achieve their goals.
The 15 support categories are:
- Assistance with Daily Life
- Transport
- Consumables
- Assistance with Social & Community Participation
- Assistive Technology
- Home Modifications
- Coordination of Supports
- Improved Living Arrangements
- Increased Social and Community Participation
- Finding and Keeping a Job
- Improved Relationships
- Improved Health and Wellbeing
- Improved Learning
- Improved Life Choices
- Improved Daily Living.
Each support category is made up of many supports and services which are included in the NDIS Pricing Arrangements and Price Limits and Support Catalogue.
