Starting your NDIS journey
Getting Accepted
Blurb about this step. Provider Choice makes the NDIS part of your life easier by taking care of your invoices, helping you track and understand your funding, and offering help when you need it. With us, you’ll feel confident with the NDIS. We explain things easily and are committed to building your capacity - which is what plan management is all about.
Blurb about this step. Provider Choice makes the NDIS part of your life easier by taking care of your invoices, helping you track and understand your funding, and offering help when you need it. With us, you’ll feel confident with the NDIS. We explain things easily and are committed to building your capacity - which is what plan management is all about.
Tools to prepare for your planning meeting
Planning Conversation Tool
Get ready for your NDIS planning conversation (also known as planning meeting) and make sure you get the funding that you need.
Planning meeting FAQs
Starting your NDIS journey
Planning Conversation preparation
Blurb about this step. Provider Choice makes the NDIS part of your life easier by taking care of your invoices, helping you track and understand your funding, and offering help when you need it. With us, you’ll feel confident with the NDIS. We explain things easily and are committed to building your capacity - which is what plan management is all about.
Blurb about this step. Provider Choice makes the NDIS part of your life easier by taking care of your invoices, helping you track and understand your funding, and offering help when you need it. With us, you’ll feel confident with the NDIS. We explain things easily and are committed to building your capacity - which is what plan management is all about.
Tools to prepare for your planning meeting
Planning Conversation Tool
Get ready for your NDIS planning conversation (also known as planning meeting) and make sure you get the funding that you need.
Planning meeting FAQs
Starting your NDIS journey
Receiving your first plan
Blurb about this step. Provider Choice makes the NDIS part of your life easier by taking care of your invoices, helping you track and understand your funding, and offering help when you need it. With us, you’ll feel confident with the NDIS. We explain things easily and are committed to building your capacity - which is what plan management is all about.
Blurb about this step. Provider Choice makes the NDIS part of your life easier by taking care of your invoices, helping you track and understand your funding, and offering help when you need it. With us, you’ll feel confident with the NDIS. We explain things easily and are committed to building your capacity - which is what plan management is all about.
Tools to prepare for your planning meeting
Planning Conversation Tool
Get ready for your NDIS planning conversation (also known as planning meeting) and make sure you get the funding that you need.
Planning meeting FAQs
Starting your NDIS journey:
Receiving your first plan
Your NDIS plan shows what you want to achieve in your life and what money is available to pay for supports to help with this. It's important that you understand what is in your plan, how you can manage the funding and how to find providers.
Your NDIS plan shows what you want to achieve in your life and what money is available to pay for supports to help with this. It's important that you understand what is in your plan, how you can manage the funding and how to find providers.
Understanding your plan
How to manage your plan and funding
There are three ways to manage the NDIS funding and there are benefits to each of them:
Plan managed
A Plan manager, like Provider Choice, will take care of paperwork, pay your providers, and organise invoices. With a plan manager, you can work with smaller providers not registered with the NDIS. With us, you'll get easy to use tools like a dashboard that you can view your funding on, as well as access to our team to help you through your NDIS journey. Every NDIS plan includes a budget to cover plan management costs - no extra charges for you.
Self-managed
Self-management puts you in control of your plan and its funds, offering the most flexibility among the three options. While it comes with more workload and responsibility, you can access both registered and unregistered providers and adjust payments beyond NDIS price limits, broadening your support choices.
NDIA managed
This option puts the NDIA in charge of your funding. However, unlike plan management, you can only access providers that are registered with the NDIS. This might limit your options for support and NDIA management also doesn't come with the added tools that many plan managers offer.
You can also split your funding so that it is managed in two separate ways. For example you may want to self-manage part of your plan and have the rest managed by a plan manager.
For more information and help, you can call our team or read through the NDIS guide for ways to manage your funding.
How to manage your plan and funding
There are three ways to manage the NDIS funding and there are benefits to each of them:
Plan managed
A Plan manager, like Provider Choice, will take care of paperwork, pay your providers, and organise invoices. With a plan manager, you can work with smaller providers not registered with the NDIS. With us, you'll get easy to use tools like a dashboard that you can view your funding on, as well as access to our team to help you through your NDIS journey. Every NDIS plan includes a budget to cover plan management costs - no extra charges for you.
Self-managed
Self-management puts you in control of your plan and its funds, offering the most flexibility among the three options. While it comes with more workload and responsibility, you can access both registered and unregistered providers and adjust payments beyond NDIS price limits, broadening your support choices.
NDIA managed
This option puts the NDIA in charge of your funding. However, unlike plan management, you can only access providers that are registered with the NDIS. This might limit your options for support and NDIA management also doesn't come with the added tools that many plan managers offer.
You can also split your funding so that it is managed in two separate ways. For example you may want to self-manage part of your plan and have the rest managed by a plan manager.
For more information and help, you can call our team or read through the NDIS guide for ways to manage your funding.
How to find providers and support workers?
- Use the NDIS provider search tool
- Contact your NDIS planner or Local Area Coordinator (LAC)
- Search online directories
- Contact NDIS customer service on 1800 800 110 or, if you have hearing or speech loss on 1800 555 677
- Ask your family and friends for recommendations
How long after my planning meeting will I receive my plan?
Tools to prepare for your planning meeting
Planning Conversation Tool
Get ready for your NDIS planning conversation (also known as planning meeting) and make sure you get the funding that you need.
