NDIS support items, descriptors, and price limits change each quarter. Verify the current line on the NDIS Pricing Arrangements before claiming. This page does not include rate amounts. Last reviewed 28 April 2026.
- Capacity Building — Improved Daily Living
- 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.
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What this support covers
- Functional physiotherapy assessment.
- Intervention targeting disability-related mobility, gait, balance, strength, and postural management.
- Respiratory physiotherapy where disability-related.
- Equipment prescription and trial (e.g. mobility aids, standing frames).
- Training of family, carers, and support workers in safe manual handling and exercise programs.
Eligibility to claim
- Participant has Capacity Building — Improved Daily Living funding.
- Physiotherapy is for disability-related capacity building, not acute injury rehabilitation funded through Medicare or workers' compensation.
Your notes must show
Documentation tests — what notes need to demonstrate to satisfy the NDIS Quality and Safeguards Commission and survive plan review.
- Date, start time, end time, and total face-to-face duration.
- NDIS plan goal(s) addressed.
- Mobility / functional domain targeted.
- Standardised assessment outcomes when used (e.g. 6-minute walk test, Berg Balance, GMFM).
- Intervention delivered, dose, and rationale.
- Carer / support-worker training delivered, with named individuals where applicable.
- Capacity-building outcomes — measurable change in functional movement.
- Plan for next session and review trigger.
Common audit failures
Patterns the NDIS Quality and Safeguards Commission and NDIA plan reviewers flag.
- Notes describe acute injury rehabilitation more appropriately funded by Medicare or workers' compensation.
- No standardised outcome measure to evidence change over time.
- Capacity-building outcomes not articulated.
- Equipment prescription without trial data or feature-matching rationale.
Reasonable and necessary criteria
Section 34 of the NDIS Act 2013 — every funded support must satisfy these tests. Documentation should make each test self-evident.
- Linked to disability-related functional impact, not acute injury rehabilitation.
- Evidence base for the physiotherapy modality and dose.
- Value for money relative to alternatives.
- Most appropriately funded by NDIS rather than the health system.
Related NDIS items
Templates for NDIS providers
Note templates inside Grounded Scribe that produce NDIS-aligned documentation — progress reports, plan-review summaries, functional capacity assessments, behaviour support plans, and session notes that meet Practice Standards.
In-depth reading in the Library
- NDIS Documentation with AI: Writing Compliant Reports FasterNDIS documentation is notoriously time-consuming. AI clinical documentation tools can help allied health practitioners write compliant progress notes, functional assessments, and plan review reports in a fraction of the time.
- NDIS Plan Reassessment Reports: An Allied Health GuideNDIS plan reassessments hinge on demonstrating progress toward goals and identifying continuing functional need. This guide outlines the report structure NDIA decision-makers expect and the common failure modes that result in reduced funding.
- NDIS Functional Capacity Assessment Reports: An OT and Allied Health GuideNDIS Functional Capacity Assessments (FCAs) test access to the scheme and inform funding decisions. The report structure must satisfy the access criteria under s 24 of the NDIS Act and the early-intervention criteria under s 25, while providing the granular detail planners use to size supports.
Source authority
Documentation tests on this page reference the descriptor conditions and Practice Standards covered in our existing Library guides. Always confirm current rules against the official NDIS Pricing Arrangements and Practice Standards.
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