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Dr. Shannon Shea Expands Who Behavior Analysis Can Help

June 5, 2026 · 6:00 PM

For two decades, a Boca Raton behavior analyst has worked the cases her field reaches least often: foster children, adults with brain injuries, psychiatric and self-injurious behavior, Deaf and deafblind clients. Now…

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B.F. Skinner’s Boyhood of Building and Tinkering in Susquehanna

June 5, 2026 · 4:00 PM

Long before he built the operant chamber, Skinner was a small-town boy rigging carts, berry sorters, and homemade machines. The instinct behind those gadgets, fix the problem by changing the conditions, became…

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Who Is Buying ABA Now: Three PE Playbooks Behind the Autism Roll-Ups

June 5, 2026 · 12:01 PM

General Atlantic, GTCR, and Gryphon Investors each own a national ABA platform, and each is buying differently. For autism providers fielding offers, the PE firm signals what the path forward will be…

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Can Instant Interviews Fix ABA’s Labor-Shortage Crisis?

June 5, 2026 · 8:00 AM

Autism Behavior Services can now interview applicants minutes after they apply. ABA applicants often field several offers at once, employers that respond quickly frequently win. If those hires can be retained over…

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OBM Experience Pitches a Fix for BCBA Burnout

June 4, 2026 · 2:00 PM

Past OBM Network president Adam Ventura and Mellanie Page, founder of The ABA Collective, are using a two-day virtual event this month to argue that the science behavior analysts use on clients…

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How to Prepare Your ABA Company for an Aggressive Medicaid Audit

June 4, 2026 · 12:56 PM

The methodology being used in audits does not distinguish between fraud and incomplete documentation. Honest providers are getting caught up in a system built for bad actors. What you do before, during…

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Jill Scarbro-McLaury Receives the SBA’s Highest Honor Fighting for ABA in West Virginia

June 4, 2026 · 12:25 PM

She started with one client and a kitchen table. She built the state’s largest training pipeline for ABA professionals. She won the SBA’s national Small Business Person of the Year. Now she…

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Ethan Schwarzbach Launched Flychain to Fix ABA Clinic Cash Flow

June 4, 2026 · 10:47 AM

Ethan Schwarzbach watched his father, a successful dentist, go months without a paycheck because of insurance payment lag. Ethan then built Flychain to solve the cash flow crisis for healthcare practices. ABA…

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Why Independent ABA Operators Need a Fractional CFO

June 3, 2026 · 6:07 PM

Your BCBA program prepared you for clinical work. It did not prepare you to model unit economics, forecast cash through authorization cycles, or understand your financials at the depth the environment now…

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STEPS Behavioral Health Expands In-Home ABA in Colorado

June 3, 2026 · 6:00 PM

The founder-led Maryland provider is building a caseload in Denver, Aurora, and Boulder before committing to a building of its own, a capital-light way to test a new state. It is doing…

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Indiana Imposes Six-Month Enrollment Freeze for New ABA Providers, Seeks to Control Costs

June 3, 2026 · 4:06 PM

CMS approved the six-month moratorium under the same federal authority it used three weeks earlier to halt home health agency sign-ups nationwide. Indiana’s Medicaid ABA spending grew from $21 million in 2017…

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Middle Market PE and Venture Capital Explore Rural Therapy-Care Deserts. Is ABA Next Their Next Frontier?

June 3, 2026 · 12:30 PM

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. As investors eye rural behavioral health, the question…

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In 2026, Nevada Families Seeking ABA Therapy Pay More and Get Less. Poorest Families Most Impacted

June 2, 2026 · 6:00 PM

The Health Plan of Nevada tightened autism-therapy benefits just as enhanced federal insurance subsidies lapsed, and Nevada families say they are now paying thousands out of pocket, with some cutting medically necessary…

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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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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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CareSource Georgia Unilaterally Slashes ABA Rates 20% Leaving ABA Families and Providers Scrambling

May 22, 2026 · 8:44 PM

CareSource Georgia, leveraging its de facto monopoly status, cuts ABA therapy reimbursement by 20% on May 11, giving providers an ultimatum during a managed care transition that has left no alternative network…

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