Private Equity in ABA Explained for Mere Mortals
The PE playbook fits in five steps and four vocabulary words. I grew a pediatric therapy company to 250 employees across multiple clinics and was oblivious about private equity.
The PE playbook fits in five steps and four vocabulary words. I grew a pediatric therapy company to 250 employees across multiple clinics and was oblivious about private equity.
Indiana is piloting AI to flag Medicaid fraud just as it freezes new autism-therapy enrollment. For ABA providers, the era of algorithmic claims surveillance…
The behavior analyst has spent years testing whether the science behind his clinical work can sharpen a pool break or a golf swing. His…
The Conway buyer emerges with about 2,100 employees in four states and expects to add ABA across the combined organization over time.
Positive Development raised $51.5 million to scale a non-ABA model it says costs roughly half as much, and AnswersNow followed with $40 million for…
The Autism Impact ETF, ticker ASD, tracks pharma, diagnostics, and online education, not the ABA providers at the center of autism care, because almost…
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Find or Post an ABA JobThe founding affiliate operates 20 centers across 8 states and has a clinical team of over 400, though the launch release does not name it. The plan calls…
Piper Sandler is running the auction for the Texas-based platform, the latest in a wave of ABA exits as sponsors past their hold windows…
Private equity acquired 500 autism therapy centers in a decade, nearly all in urban markets. Half of U.S. counties are still without a BCBA.…
The proposed 2027 Medicare fee schedule would recognize multiple-technician services and the clinical work that happens away from the patient. Whether payers cover and price that work is…
New Nebraska Medicaid service definitions that took effect July 1, 2026, cap therapy hours, end school-based billing for independent providers, and add supervision requirements.…
The Association for Behavioral Health and Wellness, representing major insurers, wants Medicaid to require licensure checks, background screenings, federal supervision ratios, and technician enrollment…
The new portal went live June 29, but this is far from the first failed launch attempt. Since then, certificants with expiring credentials and blocked exam registrations say…
A Miami podcast brought two BCBAs together with a behavior analyst who builds AI tools, capturing the question now facing every ABA clinic: not…
A new podcast episode featuring an ABA-specific AI founder is the latest sign that vendors are arriving in clinics faster than peer-reviewed evidence, BACB…
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The cut will close clinics, accelerate private-equity consolidation, and narrow access to a federally mandated benefit for the children least able to advocate for themselves. None of it…
Your BCBA program prepared you for clinical work. It did not prepare you to model unit economics, forecast cash through authorization cycles, or understand…
Industry insiders are warning that the ABA sector faces a reckoning in 2026 as payers of all types seek to control runaway spending. Reimbursement…
Few first responders are trained to recognize autism. (Herbert et al., 2022, pp. 466-480) Behavior analysts are increasingly writing safety plans and training police.
Play-based models like the Early Start Denver Model, JASPER, and Pivotal Response Treatment hold the strongest randomized-trial record in the field. This shift pulls…
He never treated a child or ran a clinic. Yet the reinforcement on every behavior plan, the graphs on every data sheet, the language…
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