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Arkansas Weighs Who Can Diagnose Autism, a Critical Step to Qualify for ABA

June 18, 2026 · 5:00 PM

A state task force is studying whether to widen the pool of clinicians who can issue a qualifying autism diagnosis, the gatekeeping step that decides when a child can start ABA. The…

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Havencrest Puts Apara Autism Centers Up for Sale

June 18, 2026 · 12:15 PM

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 test a market that has rewarded scale and…

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The Ghost Network Scandal Continues: Directories Promise ABA Access but Families Still Struggle

June 17, 2026 · 8:00 AM

The federal government found that 72% of behavioral health providers in Medicaid managed care directories should not have been listed. In Arizona, attorneys allege the same pattern is blocking families from ABA…

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BACB Report: RBT Turnover a Pervasive and Intractable ABA Challenge

June 16, 2026 · 4:00 PM

The technicians who deliver nearly every hour of autism therapy earn about $20.50 an hour, churn at rates approaching one departure for every seat each year, and hold no occupation code of…

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School-Choice ESA Funds Emerge as ABA’s Newest Payer

June 16, 2026 · 12:00 PM

Families in Florida and Arizona already direct nearly $2 billion a year in state scholarship money, with therapy on the approved list. Texas adds $1 billion this fall, and none of it…

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ABA Auction Block Fills as a Family Office Buys InBloom

June 16, 2026 · 8:00 AM

Apara Autism hit the market June 1, joining 360 Behavioral Health, Mosaic Pediatric Therapy and Butterfly Effects in a queue of scaled platforms seeking buyers. The $75 million Elysium deal shows who…

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How ERISA Lets Self-Funded Employer Plans Exclude ABA

June 15, 2026 · 2:30 PM

All 50 states require insurers to cover autism treatment. Two-thirds of covered workers are enrolled in health coverage those mandates cannot touch, and a federal parity statute is the only backstop.

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Indiana Will Require Accreditation for Medicaid ABA Agencies

June 15, 2026 · 11:59 AM

Every enrolled agency has until Aug. 1 to prove it has started. The two bodies the state recognizes are now owned by the same trade group.

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An Aerospace Engineer Built an AI Companion for His Son With Autism

June 14, 2026 · 2:30 PM

Dr. Chris Whitmer grew up in rural Kansas with two teachers for parents, earned a PhD in mechanical engineering, built a STEM education company with $3.5 million in federal grants, and then…

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B.F. Skinner’s Dark Year and the Turn to Behaviorism

June 14, 2026 · 12:20 PM

Robert Frost told him he had the touch of art. Two years of failed fiction later, Skinner traded the novel for a laboratory, on a conviction that still anchors how behavior analysts…

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Brain Connectivity Marks Two Biological Autism Subtypes

June 13, 2026 · 2:00 PM

A Nature Neuroscience study tied one subtype to synaptic genes and the other to immune pathways. The patterns held across species and sites but explained only about a quarter of cases.

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Defiance Launches an Autism ETF of Public Companies

June 13, 2026 · 10:00 AM

The Autism Impact ETF, ticker ASD, tracks pharma, diagnostics, and online education, not the ABA providers at the center of autism care, because almost all of them are privately held.

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Father and Rep. Zack Hawkins Turned a Family Diagnosis Into North Carolina’s Autism Agenda

June 12, 2026 · 3:00 PM

Two of his sons are autistic. As a North Carolina legislator and co-chair of the bipartisan IDD Caucus, Zack Hawkins has spent years trying to fix the system his own family ran…

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Six States Restrict AI Claim Denials as ABA Audits Tighten

June 12, 2026 · 12:15 PM

MACPAC is asking Congress to put a qualified human behind every Medicaid medical-necessity decision. A White House preemption framework could undo the new rules before most take effect.

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How Susan Armiger Built Catalight and Helped it Launch a New Professional Association

June 12, 2026 · 8:00 AM

She joined a 500-client nonprofit in 2011 and turned it into one of the nation’s largest behavioral health networks. Her bet: outcomes, not service hours, are the future of autism care.

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Action Behavior Centers Standardizes Design at 400 Clinics

June 11, 2026 · 6:00 PM

The Charlesbank-backed chain has grown from five Texas clinics to more than 400 nationwide. Its new playbook for how those centers look is the standardization a multisite operator adopts as it scales.

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Adam Ventura Built Intraverbal AI on Licensed ABA Journals, Equipping BCBAs for Evidence-Based Practice

June 11, 2026 · 12:15 PM

Ventura sold his multi-state ABA company in 2018, then a practice-management software firm, before aiming his next venture at a problem the field has never solved: getting peer-reviewed research into working clinicians’…

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Minnesota Medicaid Revalidation Cuts Off Autism Providers

June 11, 2026 · 8:00 AM

Facing a $2 billion federal threat, the state compressed years of fraud screening into 4 months. When the deadline passed, it cut payments to most of the roughly 5,600 high-risk agencies, many…

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Action Behavior Centers Builds a School-Age ABA Tier

June 10, 2026 · 4:00 PM

ABC Academy serves children 5 to 12 who are already in school, pushing the center-based model past its early-intervention core and lengthening the years a child, and a payer, stays in ABA.

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What McGuireWoods 2026 Means for ABA Platform Exits

June 10, 2026 · 12:01 PM

Financing is back and behavioral health is in favor, dealmakers signaled in Chicago. The harder question for autism-therapy owners is the one the room kept asking, about who buys the boom-era roll-ups…

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When No ABA Provider Could Push Back, CareSource Slashed Rates 20%

June 10, 2026 · 8:00 AM

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 is necessary.

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A Flight to Quality Is Reshaping ABA Dealmaking in 2026

June 9, 2026 · 12:15 PM

Deal volume has rebounded and private equity is back, but buyers are paying premium prices only for clinically strong, well-run providers, and walking past the Medicaid-dependent, fast-grown operators that defined the last…

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Capitation Models Undermine ABA Therapy Access and Harm Families

June 8, 2026 · 7:01 PM

Under capitation, managed care organizations receive a fixed monthly payment per enrollee. A child needing 30 hours per week of ABA costs $8,840 per month. The typical Medicaid capitation rate for a…

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The WSJ’s ABA Therapy Story Is a Reckless Depiction of Providers, Children Will Pay

June 8, 2026 · 4:00 PM

A single Brooklyn operator billing $13,000 an hour is not the field that 81,000 certified analysts practice in. The Journal’s own data proves the point it buried.

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Florida’s ABA Medicaid Shift Frays ABA Provider Networks in Miami

June 8, 2026 · 2:00 PM

Online posts describe a sudden purge of clinics. The documented reality is a managed care transition whose credentialing failures are cutting children off from therapists, and the bill meant to fix it…

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Google’s Workspace AI Enters ABA Therapy Clinics Short on Proof

June 8, 2026 · 12:01 PM

Since early 2025, Gemini has come bundled into the Workspace plans many clinics already pay for. The efficiency pitch is loudest where the risk runs highest, in clinical documentation, and quietest on…

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CereAura Seeks to Provide AI-Driven Insights for Autism Diagnosis and Therapy

June 6, 2026 · 7:00 PM

A Dubai company’s new platform pitches a fix for fragmented autism care. Its own fine print is more modest, and the field’s only FDA-cleared tool needed a multi-site trial to earn the…

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National Academies Urges Permanent TRICARE ABA Coverage

June 6, 2026 · 4:00 PM

The congressionally mandated study found ABA meets the Defense Department’s own evidence standards. For clinics that lean on military families, a permanent benefit would end a decade of demonstration-driven uncertainty.

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Medicaid Overhaul Squeezes ABA Clinics’ Billing Pipelines

June 6, 2026 · 12:01 PM

The new work rules and six-month eligibility checks fall on expansion adults, not autistic children. For the clinics that treat those children, the quieter threat is coverage churn, tighter paperwork, and leaner…

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Inside Bierman’s Research Lab for the Future of ABA

June 6, 2026 · 8:00 AM

PEBBL is turning everyday therapy sessions into a proving ground for faster progress, stronger curricula, and a more evidence-driven model of autism care

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