The Learning Tree ABA Launches Major Hunt Valley Center
Founded in 2022, the Maryland-based provider expands its play-based ABA services amid growing competition in Baltimore County.
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Payer audits, hiring economics, billing infrastructure, and the deals reshaping who owns autism services. Coverage of insurer recoupments, value-based contracting, fraud indictments, and operator profiles. For people who run practices, not the people writing checks. Pairs with policy, private equity, careers.
Franchise Systems Transform ABA Practices Like Dental DSOs
Franchise models empower BCBA owner-operators with corporate support, echoing strategies used by successful dental groups.
Centerstone and Brightli Merge, Transforming Nonprofit Behavioral Health
The merger creates the largest nonprofit provider in the U. S.
BCBS Plans Target ABA Providers with Aggressive Audits
Retroactive audits by Blue Cross Blue Shield threaten the financial stability of ABA practices, with costly recoupment demands stemming from minor documentation errors.
Value-Based Contracting in ABA: Who’s Doing It and What the Early Data Shows
A handful of payers and providers are experimenting with contracts that tie ABA reimbursement to outcomes rather than hours. The industry has talked about value-based care for years. Here’s what’s actually running,…
The ABA Revenue Cycle Management Industry: A $2 Billion Back-Office Business Built on ABA’s Complexity
Applied behavior analysis may be the most billing-intensive specialty in outpatient healthcare. Time-based CPT codes billed in 15-minute increments, heavy prior authorization requirements that vary by payer and state, modifier rules that…
The ABA Billing Fraud Playbook: The 7 Schemes That Keep Appearing in Federal Indictments
Ghost sessions, forged signatures, credential laundering, kickbacks for patient recruitment - the same fraud patterns appear in DOJ charging documents and OIG audit findings from Minnesota to Massachusetts to Connecticut. A forensic…
Colombia, the Philippines, and the Global BCBA: How ABA Companies Are Offshoring Their Back Office
A quiet transformation is underway in the business operations of American ABA therapy companies. Facing a domestic labor market where BCBA positions go unfilled for months, where administrative staff turnover mirrors clinical…
How Christopher Barnett Built the Nation’s Fastest-Growing Autism Care Company
Temple rejected his transfer application. He flew to Philadelphia anyway, walked into the admissions office uninvited, and didn’t leave until they let him in. Twenty years later, he handed the school $55…
Action Behavior Centers Has Hyper-Scaled — And Shows No Signs of Slowing Down
Founded in 2016 by a husband-and-wife team with no previous healthcare business experience, Action Behavior Centers has grown from a single clinic in Austin into a nationwide platform operating in nine states,…
In-House or Out: The ABA Billing Decision That Quietly Makes or Breaks Clinic Cash Flow
In-house billing means control and lower visible costs. Outsourcing means expertise and lower denial rates. The right answer depends on your practice size, payer mix, and growth trajectory — and most ABA…
From Panic Attacks to Power Broker: How Solome Tibebu Built Behavioral Health Tech Into the Field’s Biggest Tent
She spent her Friday nights in high school at Barnes & Noble reading about OCD — then turned two decades of lived experience into the nation’s largest behavioral health technology community, while…
Michele Silcox-Beal Wrote the Book on ABA Revenue Cycle Management
She spent two decades mastering accounting across industries before walking into a behavioral health company and spotting a gap that didn’t yet have a name — then built one of the country’s…
From Seatbelt Handbags to Session Notes: How Nicole Sands Built the ABA Industry’s Go-To Bookkeeper
She spent 13 years scaling a fashion startup, survived SBA loan audits with Moss Adams, and sold her generalist bookkeeping firm to go all-in on ABA—all while running a 22-acre farm animal…
Rose Griffin Bridged ABA’s Deepest Divide
She’s one of fewer than 500 professionals worldwide who hold both SLP and BCBA certifications. She built a 250-episode podcast, a nationally distributed therapy product, a 500-member professional development platform—and a forthcoming…
Leila Farshchian’s Experience in Education and Autism Services Shaped CircaThera
A formative encounter with autism at 15 sparked a 25-year career that would produce one of New Jersey’s top autism programs, a 1,500+ curriculum AI-powered clinical platform built with support from the…
Molly Ola Pinney Took ABA Global
She moved to Ghana at 23, founded a nonprofit that now operates across 20 countries, rang the NASDAQ bell, won Columbia’s Medal for Excellence, built a business coaching practice with her wife—and…
Liat Sacks Turned a Lupus Diagnosis Into ABA’s Most Irreverent Empire
She woke up one morning and couldn’t feel her hands. Seven years later, she’d built a test prep company that helped 10,000 students pass the BCBA exam, a podcast with nearly 5…
SILNA uses AI to revolutionize the process of obtaining ABA authorizations. And it is mind boggling.
They met as teenagers in Utah, built careers at Ramp and Truework, raised $27 million from Accel and Bain Capital Ventures before writing a single press release—and now Silna Health is processing…
Meaghan Timko Built a Career Bridging the Gap Between ABA and the World Beyond It
She founded an ABA practice at 28, consulted for private equity firms, co-wrote an Amazon #1 bestseller on neurodiversity transition planning, helped architect a workforce development program in her local school district,…