The National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) is a new government initiative in providing a way to support Australians with disability, along with their families and carers. (Source: NDIS website – https://www.ndis.gov.au/about-us/what-ndis.html)
NDIS is specifically designed to support Australians with disability, so there are some basic criteria in relation to your age, residency status, your disability and the availability of the Scheme in your residential area before you can be NDIS Participant. You can find out the full access requirements and NDIS roll out areas from NDIS website ( https://www.ndis.gov.au/people-disability/access-requirements ).
The NDIS supports you in several ways, mainly it starts with understanding your short and long-term goals, and building your NDIS Plan to enable you to achieve your goals. This could include supports in areas like therapy, employment, assistive technology, and many more.
Short answer is no. Everyone has different goals and situations, the NDIS support participants based on their goals so the supports will differ from participant to participant. During your planning meeting, your NDIS Planner will work with you to determine what supports are “reasonable and necessary” for you to achieve your goals. As part of this process, you can also request to have a plan management who will help you claim and pay your invoices covered under your NDIS plan.
There are 3 ways you can choose on how you want your NDIS plan to be managed : NDIS Managed, Plan Managed and Self Managed, each has its own benefits. Having Improved Life Choices support included in your NDIS plan, allows you to choose Maple Plan to be your plan manager. Maple Plan will then take care of all your invoices, claims and payments.
There is no out-of-pocket expense for Maple Plan’s fee as long as you have plan management included in your plan called “Improved Life Choices” this will cover 100% of our fee. Our fees will always be in line with the NDIS Price Guide so there won’t be any surprises.
Plan management is all about supporting your choice and helping you regain capacity. You have the rights to ask for plan management to be included in your plan.
At OPM, we aim to pay your invoice within 3 business days after we receive your authorization1, provided that there is sufficient funds in your plan, and it is covered as a plan managed area.