1. Provides support early to improve outcomes later by providing:
2. Access mainstream services and supports
3. Access community services and supports
4. Maintain informal support arrangements
5. Receive reasonable and necessary funded supports
AEP's can become registered
By applying directly to NDIS commission
Registered AEPs
Have greater access to patients
Are allowed to see all types of managed patients
Registered AEPs
Come with greater associated costs
Require a yearly audit process
Unregistered AEPs
Can still see a patient in the NDIS, but are limited to see patients who are either plan-managed or self-managed
Self-management
Gives patients greatest choice and flexibility over their allocation of funds
Requires more responsibility
Exercise Physiology falls within the support categories of:
Improved Health and Wellbeing
Improved DailyLiving
Exercise physiology is now included in 12. and 15.
Treatment Plan
1. Clients will be allocated an allowance to each support category
2. Client need for support services is assessed and funding to each support category will be determined by a case manager
3. The provider will guide the client as to how their 'spend' their allocation over the funding period
Most AEP services will mostly be accessed in 12. and 15. - however this support also includes the majority of allied health services (making access to funding challenging)
AEPs are able to receive funding from the NDIS
When the physical and/or wellbeing difficulties are directly attributed to the disability, and are hence able to assist them to participate in society
Under Support Category 12.
The AEP service provided must be able to support and maintain or improve the physical activity and wellbeing
Prices for support are negotiated by the provider, and can reach the maximum price
Payment terms for Self-managed participants

The participant will pay the provider directly and obtain a receipt from the provider, to acquit their expenditure against their plan using the myplace participant portal
Payment terms for Plan Managed participants

Have a plan manager assisting them, providers need to send invoices directly to the participant's plan manager. The plan manager will process the payment through the myplace provider portal and pay the provider
Payment terms for NDIA Managed participants
Payment requests will be lodged online (via myplace provider portal) and will be paid within 2business days of successful lodgment
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