Using Your NDIS Plan With Us

Therapy, assessments and reports funded through the National Disability Insurance Scheme, delivered in your home, at school, in the community or in clinic.

Please note: inOne Healthcare is not an NDIS registered provider. We work with plan-managed and self-managed participants and cannot accept agency-managed (NDIA-managed) participants.

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What to Expect From Your First Appointment

The first appointment is a conversation and an observation. Nobody is tested, and nothing is decided without you.

1

What matters to you

We start with what you want to be able to do, not with a checklist. Your clinician will ask about your history, your daily routine, who supports you, how you communicate, what you find hard, what causes pain or fatigue, and what care you already receive. The part that shapes everything afterwards is your goals: what you want to change, in what order, and by when. A plan built around our priorities rather than yours does not get used.

2

The assessment itself

Your clinician then assesses the areas relevant to your goals. What that involves differs by discipline, and the sections below set out exactly what each one looks at. We adapt to the person. Some people want to do a full assessment in one visit; others need it across two or three, or need breaks, or want a support person present. Tell us what works and we will build around it.

3

Report, recommendations and a plan

You receive a written report setting out what we found and what we recommend: strategies, equipment, modifications, therapy, or referral to someone else. We go through it with you rather than sending it and leaving you to interpret it. From that conversation comes a therapy plan with agreed priorities, a realistic frequency, and a clear sense of what each part is for.

4

Review, and then new goals

We check what is working and change what is not. We talk with the people around you, including family, support workers, your support coordinator and your GP, so that everyone is pulling the same direction. When a goal is met, we set the next one, or we discharge you. Therapy that continues out of habit rather than purpose is not a good use of your plan.

What we can and cannot recommend

We can recommend what supports your functional safety, independence and participation, and what relates to your NDIS goals. We cannot recommend equipment, modifications or services that are unrelated to your disability or outside your plan's goals, however reasonable the request. Saying so early saves you waiting months for a decision that was never going to go your way.

Your Plan

Which Part of Your Plan Pays for What

This causes more confusion than anything else, and getting it right is what stops a request being knocked back.

Capacity Building: Improved Daily Living

Funds most therapy. Occupational therapy, physiotherapy, speech pathology, dietetics and the assessments and reports that go with them sit here.

Capital: Assistive Technology

Funds the equipment itself: wheelchairs, seating, pressure care, hoists, communication devices, orthoses and vehicle modifications. The assessment that prescribes the equipment comes out of Capacity Building; the item comes out of Capital. They are separate, and a plan with one but not the other will stall.

Capital: Home Modifications

Funds building work such as ramps, rails and bathroom modifications, again with the occupational therapy assessment funded separately.

Core: Consumables

Covers lower-cost items such as continence products and some low-cost assistive technology.

If you are unsure what your plan holds, our intake team can look at it with you before you book.

Plan Management

How Your Plan Is Managed Determines Whether We Can Help

inOne Healthcare is not an NDIS registered provider. That means we can work with plan-managed and self-managed participants, and we cannot accept agency-managed (NDIA-managed) participants.

Plan-managed

Accepted

Your plan manager pays our invoices, and you can choose any provider, registered or not. Give us your plan manager's details at intake and we handle the rest.

Self-managed

Accepted

You pay us and claim through the myplace portal. We invoice in the format the NDIA expects.

Agency-managed (NDIA-managed)

Not Accepted

Agency-managed participants can only use NDIS registered providers, so we are not able to deliver services under this arrangement. If your plan is agency-managed, two things are worth knowing: you can ask the NDIA to change how your plan is managed at a plan review or by request, and in the meantime our intake team is happy to point you toward a registered provider rather than leave you without an answer.

Plan-managed and self-managed participants receive identical care. Only the billing differs.

Occupational Therapy

We watch you do a real daily task rather than ask you to describe it, because the difficulty usually shows up in the doing.

Your occupational therapist will assess:

  • How you complete daily living tasks, including dressing, showering, toileting, cooking and getting around your home
  • What is helping and keeping you safe during those tasks
  • What is getting in the way, including the environment, the equipment and fatigue
  • Transfers, seating, posture and pressure risk
  • Your home layout, access and any modification needs
  • Sensory, cognitive and regulation factors where relevant
  • For children, play, school participation, fine motor skills and self-care

Common outcomes: a functional capacity assessment, equipment prescription, home modification recommendations, or a therapy plan targeting specific daily tasks.

Read more: Functional Capacity Assessments · SIL, SDA & Housing Reports · Assistive Technology Assessments · Home Modification Assessments · NDIS Vehicle Modifications · Neurological Occupational Therapy

Physiotherapy

Your physiotherapist will observe and assess:

  • Current strength, balance, movement patterns and walking
  • Transfers, including bed, chair, toilet, car and floor
  • How you complete everyday physical activities
  • What helps you participate, and what makes it difficult
  • Mobility aids and whether they are the right ones, set up correctly
  • Falls history and risk
  • Pain, tone, range of movement and endurance

Common outcomes: a progressive exercise program, mobility aid prescription, falls prevention plan, or a rehabilitation program after a change in function.

Read more: Neurological Rehabilitation · Falls Prevention & Mobility

Speech Pathology

Your speech pathologist can observe and assess:

  • Communication, covering understanding, speaking, reading, writing and social communication
  • How you manage communication in real situations, not just in conversation with us
  • Whether communication aids or devices would help
  • Swallowing safety, and how you manage eating and drinking
  • Movement, strength and coordination of the head, neck and mouth
  • An examination of the head and neck where swallowing is a concern

Common outcomes: a communication plan, AAC assessment and trial, a mealtime management plan, or training for the people who communicate with you daily.

Read more: Swallowing Difficulties · Aphasia · Stuttering · Speech Delay in Toddlers

Dietetics

Your dietitian will discuss and assess:

  • Medical history and how it affects eating
  • Your health goals
  • What you actually eat and drink, in detail
  • Physical activity
  • Who shops and cooks, and what support is in place
  • Weight and growth, where clinically relevant to your goals
  • Swallowing, texture and mealtime factors, alongside speech pathology where needed

Common outcomes: a practical eating plan built around food you already accept, supplement advice where genuinely needed, or mealtime strategies for the household.

Read more: Mental Health & Eating Disorders · Gut Health & IBS · Fussy and Picky Eating

Podiatry

Your podiatrist will observe and assess:

  • General foot health, including skin and nail care needs
  • Any pain in the feet or ankles
  • Movement available at the knee, ankle and forefoot
  • Walking pattern and how your feet are loading
  • Footwear, and whether it suits what you do
  • Circulation and sensation, particularly with diabetes or neuropathy

Common outcomes: a foot care schedule, footwear advice, orthotic prescription, or a high-risk foot plan.

Read more: Diabetic Foot Care · Custom Orthotics

Nursing

Depending on your needs, your nurse will complete relevant clinical assessments, which may include:

  • Wound assessment and management
  • Continence assessment
  • Skin integrity and pressure injury risk
  • Medication management
  • Falls and safety
  • Cognition, where relevant to clinical care
  • Complex care needs and what support workers need to know

Common outcomes: a wound or continence management plan, a medication support plan, or clinical training for the people who provide your daily care.

Read more: Wound Care · Continence Assessments and Care · Medication Management

Children Under 9: You Do Not Need a Diagnosis

The NDIS early childhood approach means families with developmental concerns can contact an early childhood partner without a diagnosis. You also do not need to wait for NDIS access to start, and many families begin privately or through Medicare while an application is underway.

What the NDIS Will Not Fund

  • Supports unrelated to your disability
  • Health system responsibilities, including acute medical care, post-surgical rehabilitation and the treatment of an illness or injury
  • Day-to-day living costs unrelated to disability support needs
  • Anything already funded by another service
  • A vehicle, though modifications to one can be funded

Where something falls outside the scheme, we will tell you and explain what other pathway may apply.

Simple Process

How to Get Started

1

Contact us

Call 1300 765 456 or submit a referral online. Participants, families, support coordinators, plan managers and allied health colleagues can all refer.

2

We check the funding with you

We confirm how your plan is managed, which support category the service sits in, whether there is enough funding, and whether a service agreement is needed. If your plan is agency-managed, or the funding is not there, we say so before you book rather than after.

3

Service agreement

Scope, frequency and cost in writing.

4

Initial assessment

As described above, in the setting that suits.

5

Therapy, review and reporting

With progress reports and assessments for plan reviews, written to the evidence standard the NDIA requires.

Frequently Asked Questions

How long does the first appointment take?
Usually 60 to 90 minutes, longer for complex assessments. We will tell you at booking.
Can someone be with me?
Yes, and it usually helps. Family, a support worker or your support coordinator are all welcome.
Will I get a report?
Yes, and we will go through it with you rather than just sending it.
Are you an NDIS registered provider?
No. We work with plan-managed and self-managed participants. Agency-managed participants must use a registered provider, so we are not able to help in that case.
My plan is agency-managed. What are my options?
You can ask the NDIA to change how your plan is managed, either at a plan review or by request, and many participants move to plan management for exactly this reason. Call us and we will explain the process, or point you to a registered provider if that suits you better.
Do I need a support coordinator to use inOne?
No. Participants and families can contact us directly.
Can I start before my plan is approved?
Yes, privately or through Medicare where you are eligible.
What if my plan runs out of funding?
We will tell you as you approach the limit rather than after it, and can provide evidence for a plan review where warranted.
What do you charge?
Our rates and any travel, report writing or non-face-to-face charges are set out in your service agreement before anything is booked, so you know what will be drawn from your plan before it is. Call 1300 765 456 and we will go through it with you.

Conditions

Conditions We Commonly See Under This Funding

These are the conditions we most often support for NDIS participants. You do not need a listed condition to be referred, because the plan is built around function and goals, not diagnosis.

See the full list on our Conditions We Treat page →

Where We Deliver This

Melbourne
metropolitan Melbourne, including the inner city, northern, western, eastern and southern suburbs
Brisbane
Brisbane city and surrounding suburbs
Gold Coast
Gold Coast and the northern corridor
Sunshine Coast
Sunshine Coast and hinterland
Ipswich
Ipswich and surrounds
Logan
Logan and surrounding suburbs
Sydney
Sydney metropolitan
Western Sydney
Western Sydney and the outer west

NDIS appointments are delivered in your own home, at school, in early learning settings, or in the community, wherever the goal actually sits.

Talk to Us About Your Plan

Contact inOne Healthcare on 1300 765 456, email info@inonehealthcare.com.au, or submit a referral online.

Monday to Saturday, 9:00am to 5:00pm. Closed Sunday.

Related: Support at Home · Medicare · Paying Privately · Functional Capacity Assessments · Assistive Technology Assessments


Reviewed by Ashley Boykett, National Allied Health Manager. Last reviewed 14 September 2026.

This page explains funding in general terms. Eligibility and what your plan covers are decided by the NDIA, not by inOne Healthcare.