News, advice and resources from the Seareal team — for NDIS participants, families, carers and partners across Queensland.
Support coordinators make referrals to NDIS providers every week. The quality of those referrals — the information you pass on, the questions you ask, and the follow-up you do — directly affects wheth…
Plan managers process hundreds of invoices every month. Most are fine. Some aren't — and the ones that aren't range from minor errors to deliberate overbilling. Knowing what to look for before paying …
GPs, occupational therapists, physiotherapists, psychologists, and social workers are often the first professionals to identify that a patient needs NDIS support. Knowing how to make a useful referral…
Supporting a participant with complex psychosocial disability is one of the most demanding roles a support coordinator can take on. The work crosses system boundaries — disability, mental health, some…
NDIS releases updated Pricing Arrangements and Price Limits annually, with interim updates during the year. Missing these creates billing problems for participants, providers, and plan managers. This …
Underfunded NDIS plans are more common than they should be. Participants receive plans that don't reflect their actual support needs, often because they went into their planning meeting without adequa…
The NDIS Quality and Safeguards Commission is the federal body that regulates NDIS providers. It sets the standards providers must meet, investigates complaints, and has the power to deregister provid…
A functional capacity assessment (FCA) is often the most important piece of evidence in an NDIS planning process. Done well, it accurately documents the functional impact of disability and leads to a …
Housing transitions are among the most complex coordination tasks in NDIS. When a participant moves from a family home to SIL, from one SIL arrangement to another, or from SDA housing to the community…
An NDIS service agreement is a contract between you and your provider. It's required under NDIS rules for most service types and sets out what each party is responsible for. Many participants sign the…
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