Jarvis Mercer

How the Work of B.F. Skinner Still Shapes Every Modern ABA Therapy Practice

June 2, 2026 · 3:00 PM

He never treated a child or ran a clinic. Yet the reinforcement on every behavior plan, the graphs on every data sheet, the language programs in autism care, and the foundations of…

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Back Office or Client-Facing? Behavior Analysts Debate Where AI Belongs in the ABA Clinic

June 2, 2026 · 12:26 PM

A Miami podcast brought two BCBAs together with a behavior analyst who builds AI tools, capturing the question now facing every ABA clinic: not whether to use artificial intelligence, but where to…

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Brock’s Koudys Wins APBA Award for International Practice Advancement

June 2, 2026 · 10:54 AM

The associate professor is the third faculty member from Brock’s Applied Disability Studies department to receive an APBA award since 2022. She also serves as International Representative on the BACB Board of…

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JoyBridge Kids Buys Two NC Clinics, Opens First Adult Line

June 2, 2026 · 8:30 AM

The Frontline-backed pediatric platform takes over two former A Bridge to Achievement sites and plans an Adult Daily Living program, its first step beyond children’s services.

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Autism Pathways App Launches With 50-State Waiver Directory

June 1, 2026 · 6:30 PM

A solo Colorado parent’s June 1 release targets the Medicaid-application and HCBS-waiver bottlenecks that have stranded families on autism-serving waitlists averaging more than five years. It enters a market where roughly 711,000…

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Lovely Day ABA Shutters in Greensboro Citing a Medicaid Dispute

June 1, 2026 · 4:30 PM

The Triad provider’s founder drained her retirement and savings to keep it open before telling about 100 families and 75 employees that it was closing indefinitely over a six-figure Medicaid prior-authorization dispute.

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Amol Deshpande’s Frontera Is Radically Innovative, Owning ABA Clinics and Its Proprietary AI

June 1, 2026 · 2:30 PM

His son was diagnosed with autism at age 2, and the family paid $5,500 out of pocket because they could not find a clinician fast enough. Eleven years later, the former Kleiner…

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When Medicaid Rules Change Abruptly, ABA Providers Lose Staff And Families Lose Access. The Pattern Is Accelerating.

June 1, 2026 · 1:00 PM

From Vermont’s concurrent billing ban to Indiana’s hour caps to Arizona’s contract terminations, Medicaid policy changes are forcing ABA providers into sudden workforce restructuring. The compliance cost is measured in lost clinicians…

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Mobile Therapy Centers Abruptly Closes Its Illinois ABA Clinics Leaving Families and Employees Stunned

May 29, 2026 · 3:30 PM

The Libertyville provider told families and staff by email it could no longer sustain ABA services in the state, halting therapy in clinics, schools, and daycares.

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Ample Joy ABA Files California WARN Notice For 100 Layoffs

May 29, 2026 · 12:01 PM

The Corona provider, founded in 2021, with sites in Los Angeles and Palm Springs, has not publicly explained the cuts. The filing lands during a 2026 cluster of California autism-services closures.

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Gryphon-Backed LEARN Acquires Little Leaves From FullBloom

May 29, 2026 · 10:04 AM

The May 11 deal puts Florida on LEARN’s map for the first time and pulls FullBloom out of direct ABA delivery, narrowing the American Securities portfolio toward K-12 education and school-based mental…

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Action Behavior Centers Enters Pennsylvania as PE-Backed ABA Operators Push De Novo Growth

May 27, 2026 · 5:45 PM

Charlesbank-backed ABC opened three Philadelphia-suburban centers in April, while Cerberus-backed Lighthouse and GTCR-backed Caravel announced or opened at least nine more clinics across Iowa, North Carolina, Missouri, Wisconsin, and Minnesota. The 2026…

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Zoe Center for ABA Files Chapter 11 With Liabilities Up to $10 Million

May 27, 2026 · 2:45 PM

A multi-state ABA provider has filed for bankruptcy protection as the industry contends with rate cuts, audit pressure, and a reimbursement environment that is squeezing independent operators.

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West Virginia ABA Coalition Takes On a 2,000-Family Waitlist

May 27, 2026 · 12:37 PM

Three lead partners, two grants, and a five-year strategy. What the We Develop ABA coalition is actually doing, what it can and cannot fix, and the parts other underserved states could copy.

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Motivity Buys Calmanac, Adding to ABA Software Consolidation

May 26, 2026 · 7:30 PM

The Hawaii-based clinical data vendor, fresh off a $27 million Five Elms growth round, takes full ownership of the practice management platform it began integrating in 2023. The acquisition removes another independent…

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AI-Enabled ABA Therapy Tools Are Outpacing Structural And Regulatory Frameworks Required For Their Proper Use

May 26, 2026 · 4:34 PM

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 guidance, or payer documentation rules can catch up.

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Arizona’s Coverage Cliff: Three Payer Exits, 2,792 Layoffs, and Families Losing Access To ABA Services

May 26, 2026 · 10:23 AM

Three Medicaid managed care organizations dropped Arizona’s two largest ABA providers in rapid succession. Eleven families sued AHCCCS. A fourth provider laid off nearly 2,800 workers. The result is a state-level access…

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CMS Prior Auth Rule Hits ABA With Tighter Decision Clocks

May 21, 2026 · 7:30 PM

CMS-0057-F's 72-hour expedited and 7-day standard decision deadlines took effect January 1, 2026 for Medicare Advantage, state Medicaid, and CHIP programs. Michigan's CHAMPS system rebuilt its prior-authorization screens on March 22; payer…

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Easterseals Port Health Shutters Wilmington ABA Therapy Program Citing BCBA Labor Shortage As Cause

May 21, 2026 · 4:30 PM

The nonprofit’s March 31 exit gave 15 families 30 days to find new care, and signals how the BCBA workforce crisis is hitting mission-driven providers, not only the PE-backed roll-ups.

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Autism Learning Partners Shuts New York Medicaid Panels After Rate Cuts Make ABA Services Unsustainable

May 21, 2026 · 2:58 PM

One of the largest PE-backed ABA providers in the country closed its New York Medicaid intake on April 17, 2026, citing two 12.5% rate reductions that left the state reimbursing below Texas…

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North Carolina Rewrites ABA Medicaid Rules, Adding New Obstacles and Reducing Access to Care

May 20, 2026 · 5:30 PM

Courts blocked a 10% Medicaid rate cut for autism services last fall. Lawmakers wrote House Bill 696 to achieve the same cost containment through different levers, restricting telehealth, supervision, geography, and authorization.…

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ABA Team Collaboration is Ideal but Billing and Regulatory Structures Undermine its Achievement

May 20, 2026 · 3:30 PM

The industry says collaboration is the backbone of effective therapy. The billing codes do not reimburse it, the turnover data suggest it barely exists, and payers are now auditing whether it happens…

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Why ABA Scheduling Is the Industry’s Hardest AI Problem

May 20, 2026 · 1:30 PM

Matching the right RBT to the right client in real time, while reconciling credentials, authorization caps, drive time, supervision rules, and family preferences, is one of the most complex operational challenges in…

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Alex Cioarec Built ABACare for European ABA Clinics

May 19, 2026 · 8:30 AM

Cioarec came to ABA through code, not a clinical pedigree or a family story. ABACare launched in April 2026 to give European clinics practice management software designed around their funding routes, languages,…

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Why 4,000 ABA Practices Run on Disconnected Software Stacks

May 18, 2026 · 7:00 PM

Applied behavior analysis is one of the most data-intensive therapies in healthcare. Yet clinical data collection tools do not natively integrate with billing and practice management systems, forcing thousands of practices to…

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How Jon Krieger, Founder of Calex Partners, Built ABA’s Deepest M&A Deal Sheet

May 18, 2026 · 3:00 PM

From the Center for Autism and Related Disorders’ 2018 sale to Blackstone through Proud Moments’ 2025 sale to Nautic Partners, one boutique advisor has shown up at more ABA deal tables than…

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Behavioral Health Tech 2026 Unveils Exclusive I/DD CEO Retreat

May 18, 2026 · 11:30 AM

Behavioral Health Tech will co-locate the Strategic Executive Expansion Retreat, an invite-only gathering for chief executives of the country’s largest intellectual and developmental disability providers, with its September 22 to 24 conference…

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ABA Providers Turn to Parent Portals to Boost Retention Rates

May 15, 2026 · 12:01 PM

With nearly half of children exiting ABA services within two years, companies like CentralReach and Rethink aim to enhance family engagement through new dashboards.

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ABA Pivots to Multidisciplinary Care, ACES Goes the Other Way

May 15, 2026 · 8:30 AM

Cortica, Hopebridge, Westside, and most other major operators are layering speech, OT, and feeding services onto ABA. ACES, backed by General Atlantic, just acquired multispecialty provider Ally Pediatric Therapy in January 2026…

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Massachusetts Requires ABA Therapy Coverage for Down Syndrome

May 14, 2026 · 2:30 PM

New law mandates insurers to provide applied behavior analysis for individuals solely diagnosed with Down syndrome, impacting over 80% of this population.

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