Fees & Funding

Fees and funding, published in full.

As a dedicated cardiorespiratory physiotherapy clinic, our fees reflect the clinical time and expertise involved. Private fees are shown below; a range of funding pathways may reduce your out-of-pocket cost.

Schedule of Fees 2026 · Effective 1 September 2026
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Initial consultations

Names match the appointment types in our booking system. Home visits are arranged through reception rather than booked online.

Initial Consultation
Your first appointment. We work out what is limiting your breathing, and what to do about it.
A full assessment of your symptoms, breathing, exercise tolerance and daily function — including your history, medications, any oxygen or device use, previous surgery, and what you want to get back to doing. Includes hands-on treatment or exercise on the day where appropriate, and you leave with a clear management plan and next steps. Please bring your medication list, any recent test results or imaging, and your inhalers or devices.
45 min
$180

Ongoing consultations

A review appointment with your physiotherapist. Home visits are arranged through reception rather than booked online.

Follow-up Consultation
A check on how you are going, and the next step up in your programme.
Reassessment of your symptoms and measurements, with your treatment and exercise programme advanced accordingly. Also used to review technique — inhaler, airway clearance, breathing exercises or a post-operative protocol — and to adjust the plan as you improve or if something changes.
30 min
$120
Extended Consultation
A longer appointment for when there is more than one thing to sort out in the same visit.
For more complex presentations, or where active management of NIV, Cough Assist, oxygen, suctioning or tracheostomy care is combined with physiotherapy. Includes device review and adjustment — time to assess and treat properly rather than rushing either part.
45 min
$180

Exercise programmes

Both programmes are charged per session at $100 — 30 minutes each, usually twice a week. A course is typically 16 sessions over eight weeks, and most clients choose to continue well beyond that. Cardiorespiratory rehabilitation is supervised exercise; lifestyle management is the daily habits around it. Taken together or separately, and NDIS is available by arrangement — contact the clinic for a service agreement.

Cardiorespiratory Rehabilitation Programme
Eight weeks of supervised exercise, one to one, to get you fitter and less breathless.
Sixteen sessions over eight weeks, twice a week, combining aerobic work, strength training and breathing techniques — prescribed from your assessment and progressed each visit. Suitable for heart and lung conditions, after a cardiac event or surgery, and for anyone who needs or prefers individual supervision rather than a group. Oxygen levels, heart rate and breathlessness are monitored throughout, so you can work at a level that is both safe and useful. Includes a baseline fitness assessment at the start and a full reassessment at the end, so you can see what has changed.
Per 30-min session · typically 16 sessions
$100
Lifestyle Changes Management Programme
Practical help with the everyday things that decide how well you live with a long-term condition.
A structured programme covering physical activity, weight, sleep, alcohol, stress and staying smoke-free. We start with the one or two that will make the most difference to you now, set goals small enough to actually keep, and build from there, with a written plan reviewed and progressed as you go. Includes referral or linking on to quit-smoking, dietetic, psychology or exercise physiology support where that is the right next step. Run on its own or alongside your rehabilitation.
Per 30-min session · typically 16 sessions
$100

Surgical rehabilitation

Individual sessions either side of planned surgery. Both are bookable online, and both are commonly used alongside the Cardiorespiratory Rehabilitation Programme rather than instead of it.

Pre-Surgical Rehabilitation
Getting your chest ready before an operation, so recovery starts from a better place.
Breathing technique, airway clearance and conditioning taught before the operation, so you already know them when you wake up. Most useful for thoracic, cardiac and upper abdominal surgery, where the first days afterwards decide how quickly the chest recovers.
30 min
$120
Post-Surgical Rehabilitation
Getting your breathing and your fitness back after an operation.
Recovery and reconditioning after surgery — restoring lung volume, clearing the chest, managing pain-related splinting and rebuilding exercise tolerance at a pace your surgical team is happy with.
30 min
$120

Clinical massage

Available on alternate Wednesdays only, with Dr Sean Ledger, Principal Physiotherapist. Ring or text reception to find the next available date.

Clinical Massage — Therapeutic
Hands-on treatment for muscular pain and stiffness in the back and legs.
Soft-tissue treatment of the back and legs only, for muscular pain, stiffness and tension. Often used alongside a rehabilitation programme rather than on its own. It is not a relaxation massage, and it does not replace a physiotherapy assessment — if you have not been assessed here before, book an Initial Consultation first.
45 min · alternate Wednesdays
$120

Equipment & device set-up

Please call the clinic to discuss your specific needs. Each session is 60 minutes. Additional caregiver or care-staff training is $220 per 60 minutes, then $110 per additional 30 minutes. A medical prescription is required for oxygen and BiPAP. Fees are separate from device purchase or rental costs.

BiPAP Setup
Setting up a breathing-support machine, and teaching you and your carers to use it.
Set-up of non-invasive ventilation — BiPAP or bilevel — where breathing support is prescribed for a respiratory or neuromuscular condition. Mask fitting, pressure titration against your prescription, settings adjustment, operation training, troubleshooting and caregiver education where required. Straightforward CPAP for sleep apnoea is the separate, shorter appointment below.
60 min
$220
Cough Assist Setup & Training
Setting up a machine that helps clear your chest when a cough is too weak to do it on its own.
Device set-up, settings adjustment and operation training for mechanical insufflation-exsufflation, with caregiver instruction and safety briefing. Usually arranged where a neuromuscular condition or muscle weakness has made coughing ineffective.
60 min
$220
Tracheostomy Care & Management
Day-to-day care of a tracheostomy tube, taught to you and the people who help you.
Tube assessment, cleaning technique, tube change support, care site inspection, infection prevention education and caregiver training. Time is set aside for questions about managing at home and for what to do when something does not look right.
60 min
$220
Oxygen Review & Education
A check that your home oxygen is set up correctly and that you are using it safely.
Equipment set-up, titration guidance against your prescription, safety protocol briefing, storage and handling education and emergency procedures. Suitable as a first set-up or as a review when equipment or circumstances change.
60 min
$220
Suctioning Training & Management
Training in suctioning for you or your carers, so it can be done safely at home.
Airway suctioning technique instruction for patient and carers, infection control protocols, equipment use, troubleshooting and safety guidelines. Carers practise the technique in the appointment rather than being talked through it.
60 min
$220

Sleep support

For CPAP prescribed for obstructive sleep apnoea. Sleep studies and lung function testing are not performed at Inspire Clinic. You can complete our sleep apnoea check and take it to your GP for review and onward referral for a home sleep study at a clinic such as CQ Respiratory and Sleep Clinic.

CPAP Setup
Your CPAP machine set up, fitted and explained, so you can use it at home from the first night.
Mask selection and fitting, pressure and comfort settings, humidification, and training so you can use, clean and maintain the device confidently. Covers the common early problems that cause people to give up in the first fortnight: air leak, dryness, and difficulty tolerating the pressure.
45 min
$180
CPAP Review
A check-up on CPAP you are already using — what the machine recorded, and what to change.
For CPAP already set up — we read the machine’s download, check your hours of use and residual events, and adjust pressure, humidification and mask fit. The appointment to book if therapy has become uncomfortable, if you are taking the mask off overnight, or for a routine annual check.
20 min
$60

Reports, documentation & after-hours

Quotes provided on request for complex reports. NDIS non-face-to-face services are billed at NDIS rates ($183.99/hour).

General Report Writing
A written clinical report when another service, insurer or program asks for one.
Initial assessment reports, progress reports and discharge summaries. Detailed clinical documentation of findings, interventions and recommendations, charged for the time the report takes.
Hourly
$220/hr
NDIS Functional Capacity Assessment
The assessment and report the NDIS asks for when a plan is being built or reviewed.
Comprehensive Functional Capacity Assessment for plan development. Detailed evaluation of functional abilities, support needs and recommendations, including assessment, analysis and professional report writing. The range reflects the hours involved.
Typically 10–12 hours
$1,840–$2,200
My Aged Care Report
A written report for My Aged Care describing what you can manage and where you need help.
Documents functional capacity, care requirements, clinical goals and recommendations for aged care support. The range reflects the hours involved in assessment and writing.
2–3 hours
$440–$660
Assistive Technology Assessment
Working out which aids, equipment or devices would actually make daily life easier.
Evaluation to identify appropriate mobility aids, equipment, adaptive devices and software to improve independence and function. Includes written recommendations and any caregiver training needs.
60 min
$220
After-Hours Consultation
Urgent cardiorespiratory help outside normal clinic hours.
For emergency or urgent need between 6pm and 8am, at weekends and on public holidays. Call-out attendance plus up to 30 minutes of clinical service, assessment and emergency management as required. Additional time at $250/hour pro-rata. Private billing only.
Variable
$500
Funding & rebates

Pathways that may reduce your cost

Medicare (GPCCMP)
GP Chronic Condition Management Plans on GP referral provide a fixed rebate of $63.40 per claim toward eligible consultations — up to 5 services per calendar year, or up to 10 for eligible Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander patients. The full fee is payable on the day and we process the claim so the rebate is paid back to you. A referral is required before your first appointment — we cannot claim without it. Ask reception about bulk-billing options.
DVA
Department of Veterans' Affairs clients are welcome with a valid referral — please bring your details.
NDIS
Self-managed and plan-managed participants supported. NDIS programmes available by service agreement.
Private health
Claim through your extras (physiotherapy) cover via Tyro Health on the day where available.

You do not need a referral to see a physiotherapist privately. A referral is required for a Medicare GP Chronic Condition Management Plan (GPCCMP) and DVA funding, and a medical prescription is required to begin non-invasive ventilation. Medicare rebates are available for eligible consultations. Privately funded home visits incur a travel surcharge of $1/km beyond 15 km of the clinic.

Support coordinators, plan managers, aged care case managers and finance teams: the full schedule of fees lists every private, NDIS, aged care, DVA, Work Cover and NIISQ fee in one place, with travel rules, notice periods and paperwork — and downloads as a PDF.

Payment

We kindly request payment on the day of service. Where health-fund or Tyro Health systems are temporarily unavailable, on-the-spot claiming may not be possible.

Cancellations

Please give at least 24 hours' notice to cancel. For NDIS-funded appointments the notice period is 2 clear business days, as set by the NDIS. To move an appointment to another time, we ask for at least 12 hours' notice — you can change or cancel your booking online up to then, or call reception.

Life happens, and a one-off cancellation is not charged. Where cancellations at short notice or missed appointments happen repeatedly, a fee of $125 plus EFTPOS fees may apply. It is not claimable from Medicare or any other funder — see our cancellation policy.

Fees are indicative and current as at 1 September 2026. Home visits and complex-needs services — active management of NIV, Cough Assist, oxygen, suctioning or tracheostomy — are arranged through reception. For privately funded home visits a travel surcharge of $1/km applies beyond 15 km from the clinic; travel for NDIS, aged care, NIISQ and Work Cover clients follows each funder's own rules — see the full schedule of fees. Please confirm current fees and your eligibility with reception.

Common questions

The questions people ask before booking

Every answer below is the same wording as the schedule above and our terms — gathered here so you do not have to hunt for it.

What does a first physiotherapy appointment cost?

An Initial Consultation is 45 minutes and costs $180. It is a full assessment of your symptoms, breathing, exercise tolerance and daily function — including your history, medications, any oxygen or device use, previous surgery, and what you want to get back to doing. A Follow-up Consultation is 30 minutes and costs $120.

Do I need a referral to see a physiotherapist?

You do not need a referral to see a physiotherapist privately. A referral is required for a Medicare GP Chronic Condition Management Plan (GPCCMP) and DVA funding, and a medical prescription is required to begin non-invasive ventilation.

What does Medicare pay back?

GP Chronic Condition Management Plans on GP referral provide a fixed rebate of $63.40 per claim toward eligible consultations — up to 5 services per calendar year, or up to 10 for eligible Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander patients. The full fee is payable on the day and we process the claim so the rebate is paid back to you.

Can I use NDIS or aged care funding?

Self-managed and plan-managed NDIS participants are supported, and NDIS programmes are available by service agreement. Every private, NDIS, aged care, DVA, Work Cover and NIISQ fee is listed in the full schedule of fees, together with each funder’s travel rules, notice periods and paperwork.

How much notice do I need to give to cancel or change an appointment?

Please give at least 24 hours’ notice to cancel. For NDIS-funded appointments the notice period is 2 clear business days, as set by the NDIS. To move an appointment to another time, we ask for at least 12 hours’ notice. Life happens, and a one-off cancellation is not charged. Where cancellations at short notice or missed appointments happen repeatedly, a fee of $125 plus EFTPOS fees may apply, and it is not claimable from Medicare or any other funder.

Can I claim on private health insurance?

You can claim through your extras (physiotherapy) cover via Tyro Health on the day where available. We kindly request payment on the day of service. Where health-fund or Tyro Health systems are temporarily unavailable, on-the-spot claiming may not be possible.

Do you do home visits, and is there a travel charge?

Home visits are arranged through reception rather than booked online. For privately funded home visits a travel surcharge of $1/km applies beyond 15 km from the clinic. Travel for NDIS, aged care, NIISQ and Work Cover clients follows each funder’s own rules.

What does the rehabilitation programme involve?

Sixteen supervised one-to-one sessions over eight weeks, twice a week, combining aerobic work, strength training and breathing techniques — prescribed from your assessment and progressed each visit. Both programmes are charged at $100 per session. A course is typically 16 sessions, and most clients continue beyond that.

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