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Nobody’s Going to Call on You: The Problem With Asynchronous BCBA Programs

September 5, 2026 · 10:00 AM

Online master’s programs have opened the field to more future BCBAs. What can disappear behind the screen – feedback, community, and concentration – may be leaving them less prepared.

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ABA’s Largest Provider Is Building a Political Machine to Fight Medicaid Cuts

September 4, 2026 · 9:00 AM

In the span of a week, the country’s largest standalone ABA provider sent its policy team to a Capitol Hill office block, a U.S. Senate regional office in North Carolina, and the…

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The Clinic His Son Needed: The Story of How One Houston Family Used a Franchise to Open an ABA Practice

September 3, 2026 · 10:45 AM

For Nhan Le and Nhi Tran, franchising offered a path to clinic ownership without building every aspect of their business systems themselves. For Karina Garcia Capetillo, Clinical Director and Board Certified Behavior…

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North Carolina Doubles ABA Reauthorization Work. Silna Says Technology Can Help

September 2, 2026 · 1:18 PM

North Carolina now requires more frequent approval for treatment plans that include more than 16 hours of services per week. Silna CEO Jeff Morelli estimates the change could add 20 to 30…

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How to Organize Your ABA Clinic With Yourganized

August 30, 2026 · 9:15 AM

The best clinic setup may not be the first one you try.

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SAB Capital Pitches Sale-Leasebacks as ABA Growth Money

August 29, 2026 · 9:00 AM

The real estate firm finds investors who buy a therapy provider’s clinic and rent it back for years. Its case studies say the cash has funded new centers and new staff and…

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Taylor Sanders Wants ABA Fraud Prosecuted Without Cutting Kids Off From Care

August 27, 2026 · 2:30 PM

The BCBA supports aggressive action against Medicaid fraud while advocating for the Autism Families Alliance. She also warns that broad enforcement can sweep ethical providers and families into the fallout, and says…

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ABA Clinics Are Bringing Autism Diagnosis In-House to Get Kids Into Therapy Faster

August 27, 2026 · 9:00 AM

A growing number of ABA providers are adding their own autism evaluations instead of sending families out to independent clinicians, building a “diagnose here, treat here” pipeline aimed at shortening waits that…

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AT4K Works to Close the Autism Evaluation Gap for Young Children

August 25, 2026 · 4:15 PM

Autism diagnosis waitlists can keep children out of ABA therapy during years when early intervention matters most. Chris Tillotson, Michael Freytag, and James Lamar founded AT4K to attack that bottleneck directly, first…

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How to Prepare Your Practice for VBC

August 23, 2026 · 1:30 PM

Payers are writing the rules now. Here’s how to be ready before they’re written for you.

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What Does Value-Based Care in ABA Really Mean?

August 20, 2026 · 9:30 AM

Behind the buzzword: what actually changes when ABA pays for outcomes instead of hours

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A Parent’s and Provider’s Field Guide to Handling ABA Network Inadequacy

August 19, 2026 · 9:00 AM

When a health plan cannot get a child into autism care fast enough, families and providers are not powerless. Federal Medicaid rules and the appeals process give both sides more leverage than…

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CMS Lays Out a Roadmap for Medicaid ABA Services with Broad Implications for Clinic Owners

August 18, 2026 · 9:30 AM

A new 173-page federal toolkit tells states how to structure, review, and oversee ABA services in Medicaid and CHIP. The guidance centers individualized care, provider qualifications, documentation, and access, while leaving states…

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Essential Speech and ABA’s New Mexico Owners Wear Every Hat

August 17, 2026 · 2:30 PM

Mary Wynn and Shannon Schum came to ABA as parents before becoming operators. That order of arrival shapes everything about the clinic they run.

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Why Value-Based Care Matters Now: CMS Puts ABA’s Outcomes Problem on the Clock

August 17, 2026 · 9:30 AM

The new Medicaid toolkit does not mandate value-based payment, but it makes the status quo much harder to defend. For ABA providers, the value-based care clock is ticking.

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Former Behavior Technician Builds a DTT Platform That Moves RBTs to the Learner’s Side of the Table

August 16, 2026 · 9:00 AM

FirstWork, a tablet-based discrete trial training platform co-founded by former behavior technician Patrick Faga, has more than 30,000 downloads and customers that include ABS Kids, Children’s Specialized ABA, and Bierman Autism Centers,…

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Kentucky Reverses 4% Medicaid Cut Before ABA Rates Drop

August 14, 2026 · 2:45 PM

Kentucky will keep its current Medicaid fee-for-service rates after state officials found enough unexpected revenue to stop a 4% provider cut. The immediate threat to ABA reimbursement is gone, but the Department…

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Annie McLaughlin Uses Curious Collaboration to Reframe IEP Advocacy

August 14, 2026 · 9:00 AM

For Annie McLaughlin, BCBA-D, effective IEP advocacy does not require treating every disagreement as a fight. Her approach asks parents, clinicians, and school personnel to investigate the sources of disagreements, use language…

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Kristen Byra Built Upskill ABA Around the Gap Between Certification and Competence

August 13, 2026 · 9:00 AM

After nearly two decades as a BCBA-D, Kristen Byra argues that burnout often begins when clinicians are handed work they were never trained to do. Her answer is a mix of evidence-backed…

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The Future of ABA Network Adequacy: Telehealth, Enforcement, and Accountability

August 10, 2026 · 9:00 AM

By one estimate from 2025, only 12 of 3,143 U.S. counties meet the federal distance standard for autism providers. Closing that gap now rests on three levers, and each is only as…

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Plutus Health Ties Its Fees to What ABA Providers Collect

August 9, 2026 · 3:00 PM

The Dallas revenue cycle management company grew from founder Thomas John’s technology-and-process work into an ABA billing specialist. Its compensation rises and falls with the money clients collect.

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Clinical Boss Teaches Clinicians to Package Their Expertise

August 8, 2026 · 3:30 PM

Mellanie Page’s online education company starts from a blunt premise: insurance will never pay for everything a practitioner knows. Members build courses, CEUs, coaching programs, and communities on top of their existing…

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Wisconsin Brothers Build Custom Sensory Gyms for ABA Clinics

August 8, 2026 · 10:25 AM

Royalty Sensory Gyms builds its own equipment and offers clinic teams direct access to an owner throughout the design process.

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HHS Extends Comment Period on Contested Autism Plan

August 6, 2026 · 2:30 PM

Seven advocacy groups forced federal officials to back off a four-day public review of the 336-page draft, the first from the committee Robert F. Kennedy Jr. rebuilt in January. ABA providers now…

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Hidden Inadequacies in the ABA Provider Network

August 6, 2026 · 9:00 AM

Federal and state rules require insurers to maintain adequate provider networks. In applied behavior analysis, documented gaps show why the standard often fails to guarantee access.

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CareSource Partially Reverses Georgia Therapy Rate Cut, Leaving Access Uneven

August 5, 2026 · 9:00 AM

CareSource has restored full reimbursement for some Georgia therapy providers after lawmakers and families challenged a 20 percent cut. The relief is targeted, however, and clinics outside identified shortage areas may still…

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Thrive ABA Therapy Runs an In-Network, BCBA-Only Care Model

August 4, 2026 · 3:25 PM

Kristen Gainer built Thrive ABA Therapy without RBTs, outside capital, or a plan to scale quickly. The King County practice places BCBAs in every direct-care hour when billing commercial insurance, creating another…

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Meghan Edwards Built the Community for In-School BCBAs That She Needed

August 4, 2026 · 9:00 AM

Meghan Edwards, founder of The Behavior Lounge, a membership community for school-based BCBAs.

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Autism Screening Via Gaze Tracking, Retina Imaging May Help Children Receive ABA Sooner

August 1, 2026 · 1:30 PM

An FDA-cleared eye-tracking device is already in clinics while retinal photographs, a flash of light, and the pupil race to catch up. What the science can do now, and what it still…

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Melissa Kozak Built Kozak Consulting Around Caregiver-Led ABA

August 1, 2026 · 9:30 AM

The BCBA left the standard clinic model to sell one idea to owners, clinicians, and tech firms: bring families back into assessment and treatment before payers force the issue.

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How Artemis Rebuilt Its ABA Software Around AI — and Let a BCBA Draw the Guardrails

July 31, 2026 · 9:00 AM

Artemis spent the past year rebuilding its practice-management platform with an AI-first approach, pushing automation into treatment plans, session notes, prior authorization, and scheduling. What keeps the product from tripping the confidentiality…

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How to Improve Your Game Using ABA From Dr. O’Donnell

July 26, 2026 · 11:00 AM

The behavior analyst has spent years testing whether the science behind his clinical work can sharpen a pool break or a golf swing. His method starts with a stopwatch, a chart, and…

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Landria Seals Green on Having It All Without Doing It All in ABA

July 25, 2026 · 2:30 PM

The Huddle founder, ExcelPrep CEO, and former CEO of her own practice, Landria Green has it all. Her operating discipline, she says, is training people and delegating, and it started in her…

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ABA Workers Strike in Maryland. Union Fights Spread. Clinics Squeezed as Funders Slash Reimbursement

July 24, 2026 · 2:30 PM

A walkout at Verbal Beginnings puts a spotlight on the pay and support pressures facing behavior technicians and the BCBAs who supervise them.

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Samantha Parnham, Oregon BCBA and Self-Described Troublemaker, Prioritizes “Tiny Humans” Over Profit

July 24, 2026 · 9:45 AM

The founder of Adventures with Autism keeps her practice deliberately small while simultaneously reporting on and confronting players in the industry. She shares her opinions with confidence, believing the ABA industry needs…

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92507 Is Going Away. ABA Companies That Offer Speech Therapy Need to Prepare

July 23, 2026 · 2:45 PM

The AMA rejected a last rescue attempt in May, and the rule CMS proposed on July 14 starts the pricing process, with final rates due in November.

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CMS Proposes Six New ABA Codes for 2027

July 23, 2026 · 9:00 AM

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 the question the rule…

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Nebraska’s New ABA Rules Are Punishing Ethical Providers—and Shrinking Access for Families

July 22, 2026 · 9:00 AM

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. Themis Gomes says the local providers rooted in…

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Mellanie Page Says ABA Burnout Comes From Lost Passion, Not Long Hours or Workload

July 21, 2026 · 11:15 AM

The ABA Collective Founder offers a different diagnosis: clinicians who love what they do each day can work past midnight without breaking, and a smaller caseload will not save the ones who…

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North Carolina Is Tightening ABA Medicaid. Providers May Feel the Workforce Impact First

July 20, 2026 · 2:45 PM

House Bill 696 is now law, but the policy language that determines how it will work is still changing. The clearest effects will be on staffing, remote supervision, authorization workload, and the…

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SEBA Wants to Take Behavior Analysis Beyond Autism

July 19, 2026 · 9:00 AM

The volunteer-run society sells two-year memberships, runs continuing education events, and is staffed by clinicians who argue that the science belongs in health care, sports, schools, and government.

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Advocate Says Oregon ABA Board Left Training Questions Unanswered

July 18, 2026 · 8:30 AM

Christina Williams’ follow-up account of the July 10 meeting in Salem describes an unaddressed attestation concern, fiscal reasoning crowding out client safety, and public comments that drew no response. The regulator reconvenes…

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The Promise Behind Dr. Scott O’Donnell’s Push to Expand ABA

July 15, 2026 · 5:45 PM

He spent more than a decade using the science of behavior everywhere except the field itself, on warehouse crews, problem employees, and himself. Now the Philadelphia therapist and Temple adjunct is building…

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Nebraska Cuts ABA Prior Authorization Threshold to 20 Hours

July 14, 2026 · 8:00 AM

Independent providers can no longer bill Medicaid directly for therapy delivered at school under coverage changes effective July 1, adding to cuts the state began last August. One Omaha clinic owner says…

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Sensory Kits Help Niles Police Safely Reunite Autistic Man

July 12, 2026 · 9:00 AM

Officer Jessica Zia had carried the new tools for just 20 days when a nonverbal 25-year-old wandered more than 6 miles from a Chicago group home. The nonprofit behind them has trained…

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Unity Behavioral Services Designs Its Own Individualized ABA Model

July 11, 2026 · 9:30 AM

The family-owned Georgia- and Texas-based provider, led by founder Armon Aghaie, is pitching a purpose-driven model and a set of company-reported outcomes it says set it apart as it plans to grow.

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A Call to Action During Oregon’s BCBA Presses Board to Reform RBAI Licensing

July 8, 2026 · 12:15 PM

Christina Williams will use this Friday’s public Behavior Analysis Regulatory Board meeting to push five changes to how Oregon trains and licenses its entry-level analysts. She is asking the field to show…

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ABA Network Adequacy: Cracking the Math and Rules Behind the Metrics

July 8, 2026 · 8:00 AM

Regulators turn “enough providers” into formulas, from miles and minutes to a 10-business-day clock for visits. How those numbers are drawn decides who reaches an in-network BCBA and who only appears to…

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What is going on with the BACB Website?

July 2, 2026 · 2:15 PM

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 they cannot reach anyone.

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Virginia Caps Medicaid ABA Hours a Year After Raising Rates

July 2, 2026 · 11:00 AM

One year after the state raised ABA rates to address a workforce shortage, a budget provision that took effect July 1 limits Applied Behavior Analysis to 20 hours a week per Medicaid…

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CareSource Says Costs Justify 20% Cut, Lawmaker Disagrees and Explains How Capitation Works

June 29, 2026 · 3:45 PM

CareSource is paid a fixed sum to absorb the risk of rising demand. When demand rose, it cut provider pay instead, and a state hearing put the design of capitation on trial.

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