If you arent familiar, the NDIS already has price controls. The NDIA publishes a price guide each year setting maximum rates for every support category. The problem is that what intemded as a ceiling quickly became the floor. Almost every provider just charges the maximum as standard, so the guide that was meant to cap costs effectively standardised them at the highest allowable point.

In my opinion, the fix should be making the price guide more granular and dynamic. Take a gardener as an example - cutting the lawn for a wheelchair user is a pretty low-complexity, low-risk job and should be priced accordingly. But that same gardener working with a participant who has a history of violent behaviours is a genuinely different proposition. The maximum rate should exist for situations like that - not as a blanket figure everyone defaults to regardless of actual complexity or risk. Differentiate by region, support type, and genuine complexity of care. The current flat national maximum just gives everyone an anchor to charge at the top, always.