The Therapy Point offers a wide range of funding options: the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS), Private Health Insurance, Better Start Funding, Medicare, and Third Party Insurance. We are also readily available to serve private paying clients who do not cover government funding and insurance. Please feel free to contact our office to discuss your specific situation before starting your initial appointment.
NDIS Funding
The Therapy Point offers a wide range of funding options: the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS), Private Health Insurance, Better Start Funding, Medicare, and Third Party Insurance.
We are also readily available to serve private paying clients who do not cover government funding and insurance. Please feel free to contact our office to discuss your specific situation before starting your initial appointment.
NDIS Funding
The National Disability Insurance Scheme, NDIS, is a federal government program designed to provide funding and support for children and adults with disabilities.
We provide early intervention supports and also support adult participants with communication challenges.
Third-Party Funding
We also provide services to children and adults with disabilities in care arrangements, including aged care and out of home care. If you want to access any of our services, please provide your case manager with our details so that they can contact us to complete a referral.
Third-Party Insurance
The Therapy Point provides services for children and adults with disabilities covered by third party insurance, including comprehensive, third party (CTP) and workers compensation.
Please let us know if you have any third party insurance when booking an appointment, so we can prepare the correct paperwork to support your claim.
Private Health Insurance
Therapy Point is registered with several private health covers. If you are not eligible for government funding, you might access funding assistance through your private health fund. The coverage and payment amount totally depend on the policy you choose to wait periods and other conditions.
The private health insurance may cover allied health services like speech pathology, assessments, and sessions under your extras policy.
If you want to use your private health insurance, please contact your health fund directly to confirm your eligibility.
Medicare Funding
We are a registered Medicare provider, and your child might be eligible for partial reimbursements for occupational therapy services. A referral from your GP is required.
Funding can also be accessed through Medicare, which offers a wide range of programs for children and adults with disabilities. These programs help to contribute to sessions for assessment, therapy, and communication challenges treatment.
These programs include:
Helping Children with Autism (HCWA),
Better Start for Children with Disability initiative,
Chronic Disease Management Plan,
Medicare Follow-Up Allied Health Services for People of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Descent
Better Start Funding
Eligible children diagnosed with Down syndrome, Fragile X Syndrome, Cerebral Palsy, or moderate or greater vision or hearing impairment, including deafblindness, can access funding and new Medicare items under Better Start for Children with Disability (Better Start) initiative.
The initiative includes:
Funding for early invention services and treatments for children under age six,
Medicare items for the development of a treatment and management plan for children under age thirteen,
Medicare items for four allied health diagnostic services and twenty relevant allied health services for children up to aged fifteen.
More information
Our staffs are highly experienced and knowledgeable in the different funding options available. Please feel free to know more information.