Fees and Funding – GC Speech Clinic

Fee Schedule

*Non-face-to-face services are supports provided to clients/families outside of their direct therapy appointment. Examples of this include the clinician’s time preparing for your appointment such as reviewing documentation, identifying appropriate therapy activities to engage in to achieve you/your child’s goals, as well as reflection and documentation following the session.

Home/school/centre visits are charged at the rates above for the travel time incurred.

Letters/reports/resource development are charged at the rates above.

Cancellation fees apply for non-attendance, no-show and short-notice cancellations within 24 hours of the appointment.

NDIS

Gold Coast Speech Pathology Clinic accepts plan-managed and self-managed clients accessing NDIS funding.

Private Health Fund Rebates

Private health fund rebates are available on all assessment and treatment sessions. The level of rebate you will receive depends on the type and level of your private health fund cover. It is worth contacting your private health fund to find out about what rebate you’ll receive for each session, and what your annual limit is.

The private health fund item numbers for speech pathology services are:

• 320 – Speech Pathology Assessment (46 – 90 minutes)

• 330 – Speech Pathology Assessment (over 90 minutes)

• 340 – Speech Pathology Therapy (up to 45 minutes)

• 350 – Speech Pathology Therapy s (46 – 90 minutes)

Your receipts will include all the information, codes and details you’ll need so you can make a claim with your health fund.

Medicare Rebates

With regard to Medicare rebates, you would still attend an assessment or therapy session as normal and pay the normal fee. However, following the session, you would be issued you with a receipt that has the required Medicare details on it for you to make a claim with Medicare. There are a number of Medicare programs under which eligible clients can receive a rebate for speech pathology services. These include:

Chronic Disease Management Plan

To be eligible for this, children need to have a chronic condition that has been (or is likely to be) present for six months or longer, and requires multidisciplinary care from a GP and at least two other health or care providers. This plan allows your child to access up to five rebated sessions per calendar year.

Helping Children with Autism program

This program is to help children undergoing diagnosis/assessment or treatment for Autism. Under the Helping Children with Autism program, a child can be referred by a consultant paediatrician or psychiatrist to access rebates on up to four diagnostic/ assessment services, and up to twenty treatment services. These are the total number of rebates offered to any one child under this scheme and are not an annual entitlement. For more information and to determine whether your child is eligible, please contact your child’s paediatrician or psychiatrist.

Disability — Better Start for Children with Disability initiative

Children with an eligible disability can be referred by a GP, specialist or consultant physician and receive up to four diagnostic/assessment services to contribute to a child’s treatment and management plan (for a child under 13 years of age) and up to twenty treatment services (for a child under 15 years of age, providing a treatment and management plan is in place before their 13th birthday).

Follow up Allied Health Services for People of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander descent

A maximum of five allied health services are available for each calendar year. This is in addition to allied health services available to eligible clients with a chronic disease management plan. To access follow-up allied health services, children must be referred by their GP to the speech pathologist.