NDIS Item Documentation

What your notes must show

Item-by-item documentation tests for Australian practitioners delivering NDIS-funded supports. Each entry covers what the support item actually pays for, what your notes and reports must demonstrate to satisfy the NDIS Quality and Safeguards Commission, and the failure modes that show up most often at plan review.

Reference only — not pricing or compliance advice

Support item codes, descriptors, and price limits are updated by the NDIA each quarter. Always verify the current line on the NDIS Pricing Arrangements and Price Limits before claiming. These pages do not include rate amounts and are not legal, clinical, or regulatory advice. Practitioners are responsible for ensuring their documentation meets their registration body, employer, the NDIS Quality and Safeguards Commission, and NDIA requirements.

Capacity Building — Improved Daily Living (8 items)

Psychologist3 variants

Psychology — Capacity Building (Improved Daily Living)

Psychology services delivered to NDIS participants under Capacity Building — Improved Daily Living. Covers assessment, individual therapy, training of carers and support workers, and group therapy.

15_056_0128_1_3 +2

Documentation tests

Occupational Therapist

Occupational Therapy — Capacity Building (Improved Daily Living)

OT services delivered to NDIS participants under Capacity Building — Improved Daily Living. Covers functional capacity assessment, intervention, assistive-technology assessment, home-modification assessment, and training of carers and support workers.

15_038_0128_1_3

Documentation tests

Speech Pathologist

Speech Pathology — Capacity Building (Improved Daily Living)

Speech pathology services delivered to NDIS participants under Capacity Building — Improved Daily Living. Covers communication and swallowing assessment, intervention, AAC prescription, and training of carers and support workers.

15_046_0128_1_3

Documentation tests

Counsellor

Counselling — Capacity Building (Improved Daily Living)

Counselling services delivered to NDIS participants under Capacity Building — Improved Daily Living. Covers individual counselling addressing disability-related emotional, social, and adjustment needs.

15_048_0128_1_3

Documentation tests

Physiotherapist

Physiotherapy — Capacity Building (Improved Daily Living)

Physiotherapy services delivered to NDIS participants under Capacity Building — Improved Daily Living. Covers disability-related movement, mobility, postural management, respiratory care, and training of carers and support workers.

15_042_0128_1_3

Documentation tests

Dietitian

Dietetics — Capacity Building (Improved Daily Living)

Dietitian services delivered to NDIS participants under Capacity Building — Improved Daily Living. Covers disability-related nutrition assessment, intervention, mealtime management input, and training of carers and support workers.

15_044_0128_1_3

Documentation tests

Exercise Physiologist

Exercise Physiology — Capacity Building (Improved Daily Living)

Exercise physiology services delivered to NDIS participants under Capacity Building — Improved Daily Living. Covers disability-related exercise prescription, supervised programs, and training of carers and support workers.

15_200_0128_1_3

Documentation tests

Registered Nurse

Nursing — Capacity Building (Improved Daily Living)

Nursing services delivered to NDIS participants under Capacity Building — Improved Daily Living. Covers disability-related nursing assessment, complex care planning, training of support workers, and clinical oversight.

15_050_0128_1_3

Documentation tests

Support Coordination (1 item)

Social Worker

Support Coordination — Capacity Building (Choice and Control)

Support coordination connects NDIS participants with the providers, mainstream services, and informal supports they need to use their plan. Documentation must satisfy NDIS Quality and Safeguards Commission Practice Standards and provide plan-review evidence.

07_002_0106_6_3

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Specialist Services (1 item)

Behaviour Support Practitioner

Positive Behaviour Support — Capacity Building (Improved Relationships)

Positive Behaviour Support (PBS) practitioner services delivered to NDIS participants. Covers functional behaviour assessment, PBS plan development, restrictive practice authorisation, training of implementing teams, and ongoing review.

15_621_0128_1_3

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Source authority

• NDIS Pricing Arrangements and Price Limits — official support item descriptor and rate lookup
• NDIS Practice Standards — NDIS Quality and Safeguards Commission record-keeping framework
• NDIS Act 2013 — access (s 24) and early-intervention (s 25) criteria
• Reasonable and necessary criteria — s 34 of the NDIS Act 2013

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