FOI 24/25-1895 - DISCLOSURE LOG
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- Total Spend on Assistive Technology - 12 months ending 31 March 2025*
| Total Spend AT | Amount |
|---|---|
| Total | $ 672,857,048 |
- AT Spend broken down by product category - 12 months ending 31 March 2025
| Total Spend AT | Amount |
|---|---|
| Shower | $ 35,877,483 |
| Manual Wheel Chair | $ 79,485,492 |
| Powered Wheel Chair | $ 129,084,269 |
| Postural | $ 41,669,214 |
| ProOrtho | $ 90,689,422 |
| Vehicle Mods | $ 39,848,346 |
| Communications | $ 12,431,470 |
| Hearing | $ 3,188,739 |
| Beds | $ 50,217,671 |
| Hoist | $ 24,040,423 |
| Assistance Animal | $ 4,271,665 |
| Rental | $ 19,618,246 |
| Delivery | $ 51,204 |
| Vision | $ 1,635,740 |
| Personal Care and Safety | $ 9,854,339 |
| Recreation | $ 4,073,962 |
| Disability Related Health Support | $ 3,668,115 |
| Mid-Cost AT | $ 244,584 |
| Missing | $ 122,906,664 |
| Total | $ 672,857,048 |
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The Disability Related Health Support in AT support category is determined based on the item description in the pricing catalogue. This general item code is used to claim assistive technology equipment that cannot be classified under existing product groups.
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The Mid-cost AT group refrers to 9 general item codes used to claim general assistive technology equipment less than $15,000.
- AT Spend broken down by disability - 12 months ending 31 March 2025
| Total Spend AT | Amount |
|---|---|
| Acquired brain injury | $ 43,741,616 |
| Autism | $ 18,176,981 |
| Cerebral Palsy | $ 104,108,054 |
| Developmental Delay | $ 14,786,814 |
| Down Syndrome | $ 7,524,574 |
| Global Developmental Delay | $ 9,709,649 |
| Hearing Impairment | $ 6,815,081 |
| Intellectual Disability | $ 61,212,143 |
| Multiple Sclerosis | $ 38,167,973 |
| Psychosocial disability | $ 8,337,052 |
| Spinal Cord Injury | $ 50,841,607 |
| Stroke | $ 35,890,549 |
| Visual Impairment | $ 8,945,452 |
| Other Neurological | $ 100,062,244 |
| Other Physical | $ 98,814,805 |
| Other Sensory/Speech | $ 86,322 |
| Other | $ 64,438,303 |
| Missing | $ 1,197,830 |
| Total | $ 672,857,048 |
- AT Spend broken down by tier - 12 months ending 31 March 2025
| Total Spend AT | Amount |
|---|---|
| Low Cost | $ 110,193,599 |
| Middle Cost | $ 356,807,276 |
| High Cost | $ 226,533,118 |
| Other** | -$ 20,676,945 |
| Total | $ 672,857,048 |
Note:
- The Assistive Technology payments included in the above tables include supports claimed in the “Capital - Assistive Technology” support category only. Assistive Technology supports can also be claimed in the “Core-consumables” support category but these claims have not been included in the tables. Core consumables payments in the 12 months ending 31 March 2025 were $973m.
** ‘Other’ amounts included cancellations or offsets that could not be categorised within the low, medium, or high cost tiers.
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