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Alderley Speech Pathology & Occupational Therapy Fees

At Cooee, we provide both Speech Pathology and Occupational Therapy services, which can be Direct Services or Indirect Services.

This page provides important information regarding the options for structuring your care plan, and how services are billed.

RATES

All billing uses the following hourly rates.

Speech Pathologist / Occupational Therapist – $192.00 per hour ($3.20 per minute)

Allied Health Assistant – Level 2 – $86.40 per hour ($1.44 per minute)

Allied Health Assistant – Level 1 – $55.80 per hour ($0.93 per minute)

* Any Travel is charged at 50% of the above rates.
**Cancellation fees apply for any appointments cancelled within 48hrs of their scheduled time.

More information can be found in our Cancellations, Fees & Funding Policy.

DIRECT SERVICES

Client Journey Planning Session

This appointment is your initial appointment with the Occupational Therapist or Speech Pathologist, it is generally a 45 minute appointment. If more time is required the therapist will discuss that with you during the appointment and if less time is required you will only be billed for the time taken.

Please note that if you are engaging in both Occupational Therapy and Speech Pathology you will need to complete a Client Journey Planning Session for each service.

Assessments

During your Client Journey Planing Session, the Occupational Therapist or Speech Pathologist will individualise an Assessment Plan based on the information you provide.

Please note: our Client Care team (receptionists) cannot provide this service, and will not book an assessment for you, without attending a Client Journey Planning Session.

  • You will need to share: background information, existing reports/documentation & come ready to discuss your reasons for accessing Speech Pathology or Occupational Therapy & your ideal goals.
  • The Speech Pathologist or Occupational Therapist will use this information to customise your assessment phase recommendations.  This is a clinical service. They will discuss the reasons behind each test they recommend, and help customise a plan based on your expectations.
  • Speech Pathology Assessment Fees can range between $528 – $1136 and Occupational Therapy Assessment Fees can range between $544- $1200 (All assessment phases are inclusive of a full report & 30 minute feedback session).
    • The assessments fees are based on the time required for the Speech Pathologist or Occupational Therapist to conduct the tests with your child, analyse the results, and write the required documentation.
    • There are different types of standardised assessments, each suitable for different clinical reasons.  Your therapist will recommend the assessment based on your concerns & background information.
    • You will receive a breakdown of the assessment fees from the therapist after the Client Journey Planning appointment. As the Speech Pathologist and/or Occupational Therapist complete components of the assessments you will receive an invoice only for the time that has been utilised to complete that component.

Ongoing Therapy

Cooee operates using a cycles of therapy model.

  • The recommended frequency of Face to Face services, as well as the required non face-to-face Services for each session (planning, preparation etc) are quoted during the Assessment Feedback Session in a Quote for Service.
  • You will receive a Quote for Service every cycle of therapy, outlining the expected costs of therapy over the upcoming therapy cycle, during the goal review. This is not an upfront bill, it is designed to provide more financial clarity for families over a defined period of time, you will only be billed for services as they are provided.
  • You are not locked into the services in the quote, services can be added if requested or clinically needed or removed if circumstances change and they are no longer appropriate.

Cooee does not have a fixed cost per session for the administrative components that are required to deliver therapy to our standards of care, we believe that every client, family and therapy journey is different and requires different levels of these supports across that journey. 

At Cooee ongoing appointments are offered; occuring weekly or fortnightly, as either 30 minute, 45 minute or 60 minute appointments of direct face-to-face time + individualised non-face-to face time that occurs outside of your appointment time. Typically the non-face-to-face time ranges between 5-15 minutes per appointment, in addition to the Face to Face session fee.

The non face-to-face billing component includes any room set up additional to the traditional therapeutic space (e.g. for gross motor intervention, feeding), planning and preparation for the session (e.g. tailoring specific activities to increase engagement, creating resources for use in session, providing home practice/follow up) and completion of treatment notes. This will be quoted indiviudally by the therapist in consultation with you based on your goals for the current therapy cycle and model of care.

 

We provide four options for accessing our direct services, and the appropriate model of care will be recommended to you based on your assessment results & therapy goals.

Single Discipline Services (Speech Pathology or Occupational Therapy)

e.g. Accessing Speech Pathology Sessions only.

e.g. Accessing Occupational Therapy Sessions only.

Multidisciplinary Services **

e.g. Seeing a Speech Pathologist + Occupational Therapist simultaneously (in different sessions)

e.g. Seeing a Speech Pathologist + Occupational Therapist simultaneously (in the same session, working on collaborative but individual goals)

Interdisciplinary Services **

e.g. Seeing a Speech Pathologist + Occupational Therapist in the same session, with both therapists working towards the same goal.

Transdisciplinary Services **

e.g. Seeing a Speech Pathologist, who will be providing interventions (as per their training) across both Speech Pathology & Occupational Therapy.  (only where training permits & client management requires this model due to complexity).

** These models of care ethically require the inclusion of additional Indirect Services (see below), due to the consultative nature of the advocacy & collaboration involved in client management.  When providing these services, the therapists must set collaborative goals, include environmental supports + recommended adjustments, work with your stakeholders (Teachers, support workers, etc) to ensure education and advocacy is provided.

PLEASE NOTE: 

We do not provide consultative information, clinical advice or recommendations by email due to ethical reasons.  
No clinical correspondence will occur in body of emails, information will be sent as pdf attachments, upon parent/carer request & by informed consent of family.  Clinical phone calls will be billed at the rate/15min minimums & are considered a meeting. Non-clinical phone calls (e.g. calls regarding scheduling) are not billed.

INDIRECT SERVICES

Any requests for indirect services can be discussed during the goal review or can be requested during regular clinical sessions, where the therapist will negotiate time frames, typically from 2-6 weeks depending on caseload demands.

All indirect services are billed at the hourly rate, based on 5 minute increments, including any travel.

Cooee will support therapists to manage their caseload requirements in a balanced way. Turnaround times for requests for indirect services are to be negotiated with the therapist directly, and will be prioritised based on clinical demand.

Indirect services include any clinical consultation occurring outside of regular direct face to face therapy times.  This includes;

  • Writing of any letters,  reports, summaries additional to existing documentation
  • Attendance at any meeting, including phone calls, telehealth calls, or face to face meetings (including travel time).
  • Development of any clinical resources specific or individual to the child, as required for their intervention
  • Provision of any adjustments or classroom scaffolds, curriculum modifications/support and environmental recommendations/adjustments.
  • Advocacy, education of stakeholders, case management advice, including lead therapist planning time.
  • Multi disciplinary and interdisciplinary stakeholder in person communications, includes collaborative goal setting & clinical planning sessions, case conferencing & review meetings.
  • Home programming, individualised resource development, AAC planning or programming.
  • Parent advice, education, coaching sessions.