Initial appointment | 60 minutes | Home visit in: Thornbury | Funding: Middle financial capacity + GP Medicare rebate
Appointment cost = $130.00
Cost after Medicare rebate = $66.60
Travel (15min return from Brunswick) = $30.00
Total out of pocket = $96.60
Follow-up appointment | 30 minutes | Community visit to progress hydrotherapy program at: Brimbank Aquatic Centre, Keilor | Funding: low financial capacity + GP Medicare rebate
Appointment cost = Bulk billed
Travel (30min return from Brunswick) = $40.00
Total out of pocket = $40.00
Community visits can include: your home, a local gym or community centre for exercise, hydrotherapy at a community pool, a park, and more.
Community travel billing will be organised between us based on factors like your location relative to mine (north-west Melbourne), but will broadly follow the above pricing structure. This can be determined during our free initial phone call.
Initial appointments in person, either at clinic or in the community, is strongly encouraged so that I can properly assess you. This is especially true if you are seeking support for a specific musculoskeletal issue (e.g. short-term injury). However, if it isn't possible to see me, we can discuss during our phone call and see if I think I can deliver care properly via telehealth.
Telehealth can be a video or phone call.
I will not need to pay rent on a space on these days, so they are set at 75% of the price of a clinic visit.
All initial appointments are 60 minutes so I can thoroughly assess and set up a treatment plan. We can decide together whether our follow-up appointments need to be 30 or 60 minutes
30 minute appointment = 25 minutes face to face + 5 minutes note-writing time
60 minute appointment = 50 minutes face to face + 10 minutes note-writing time
Every insurer will be different and it will vary greatly based on who you're with. Many insurers offer a rebate around 50% of the appointment price.
Your GP can refer you for a maximum of 5 sessions per year with a primary care provider. If you see any of the other specialists, that will reduce how many physio sessions we can use.
I am using a sliding scale for my services. This is so that the people in our community who are able to afford physiotherapy can help support my practice. Some people paying a little bit more makes it possible for me to offer lower-cost care to those who really need it, and aren't able to get physio in many other places because of barriers like the complexity and delays of the public health system, and the changes to the NDIS.
You can read through the following concepts to help choose which financial bracket fits your situation best. They are based on the Green Bottle Method:More about the Green Bottle Method
I am following the NDIS pay guide, which establishes the prices for physiotherapy sessions by the hour.
I will bill for this time based on the NDIS hourly rate. I will always discuss with you ahead of time if there is a task I would like to bill for, and get your consent before I complete them.
If you have any concerns or questions about these prices, you can send them by email,
or raise them during our free 10 minute introduction phone call
redstringhealthcare@gmail.com
I would like to acknowledge the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin nation. It is on their land that Red String Healthcare has been imagined and created, and it will be on this land that it hopefully continues to grow. It would not exist without the healing practices that have taken place here for thousands of years.
The Indigenous peoples of this land have never ceded their sovereignty, and I would like to pay my respects to the resistance efforts against colonisation that continue to this day.
Always was, and always will be, Aboriginal land.
© 2026 Nimble Physio with Physio Nimble
All contents of this site are protected by Australian copyright law. Reproduction of the text and images published here for commercial purposes is not permitted.
