Speech pathology fees - TAC - Transport Accident Commission

Effective 1 July 2020

In response to Covid-19, the TAC has introduced temporary funding of telehealth services to ensure clients can continue to access essential treatments and services. The TAC telehealth items and fees for speech pathology services are available on our Telehealth fees page.

Speech pathology services can be invoiced online via LanternPay for next business day payments.

2020/21 rates
2019/20 rates
Not registered for GST

For face to face speech pathology services provided on after 1 July 2020
	Registered for GST
Service Description	TAC Item Number	Maximum Payment Rate
Individual Treatment
Completion and submission of Treatment Notification Plan (SPTNP)	ST600	$54.51
Hourly Rate	ST604	$98.85
Group Treatment
Group Consultation (per person, per hour)	ST601	$59.36
Travel (with prior approval)
Travel	ST630	$98.85
Travel time can be claimed only for travel to and from the practitioner's practice address and the TAC client's residence. Where more than one client is visited in a single travel period, total travel costs should be apportioned equally between those clients to whom services have been provided.
^All travel is to be separately billed in blocks of 15 minutes.
Speech Pathology Management Review (SPMR)
Completion and submission of the SPMR form (only on request by TAC)	ST640*	$54.51

For face to face speech pathology services provided between 1 July 2019 and 30 June 2020
	Registered for GST
Service Description	TAC Item Number	Maximum Payment Rate
Individual Treatment
Completion and submission of Treatment Notification Plan (SPTNP)	ST600	$53.44
Hourly Rate	ST604	$96.90
Group Treatment
Group Consultation (per person, per hour)	ST601	$58.19
Travel (with prior approval)
Travel	ST630	$96.90
Travel time can be claimed only for travel to and from the practitioner's practice address and the TAC client's residence. Where more than one client is visited in a single travel period, total travel costs should be apportioned equally between those clients to whom services have been provided.
^All travel is to be separately billed in blocks of 15 minutes.
Speech Pathology Management Review (SPMR)
Completion and submission of the SPMR form (only on request by TAC)	ST640*	$53.44

For Speech pathology services performed by a provider who is not registered for GST
	Not Registered for GST
Service Description	TAC Item Number	2020/21 Maxium Payment Rate	2019/20 Maximum Payment Rate
Speech Pathology Management Review (SPMR)
Completion and submission of the SPMR form (only on request by TAC)	ST640F	$49.57	$48.59

GST

* Item numbers denoted with an asterisk (*) include a 10% allowance for GST as TAC believes these are taxable supplies. If you are a provider and are not registered for GST, then the maximum claimable on these item numbers is 10/11ths of the corresponding Maximum Payment Rate. Providers who are not registered for GST are:

Not legally permitted to charge GST; and
Should indicate on all invoices submitted your status as 'not registered for GST'

A GST Registered provider should not add GST on top of the Maximum Payment Rate as an allowance for it is already included where applicable.

All other item numbers i.e. with no asterisk (*) are the Maximum Payments Rates regardless of whether you are registered for GST or not, as TAC believes these to be GST-Free supplies.