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Three BCBAs, One City, 25 Years: How Behavioral Innovations Built a 100-Clinic Empire That Almost Nobody Outside Texas Has Heard Of

March 17, 2026

In 2000, Billy Edwards, Carla Edwards, and Lori Russo opened Dallas-Fort Worth's first ABA consultation office. They were among the earliest Board Certified Behavior Analysts in the country, and they had a…

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Two Rhodes Scholars, One Conviction: Cortica Is Building the Autism Care Model That the Rest of the Industry Hasn’t Figured Out How to Pay For Yet

March 17, 2026

Neil Hattangadi and Suzanne Goh met as Rhodes Scholars at Harvard Medical School, married, and spent years working separately — he in medical devices and hedge funds, she in a clinic that…

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Two Bottlenecks, One Career: Jamie Pagliaro Built the ABA Training Infrastructure — Now He’s Attacking the Diagnosis Delay That Precedes It

March 17, 2026

For sixteen years at RethinkFirst, Jamie Pagliaro built the platform that put BCBA supervision and RBT training in the cloud, reaching more than 30,000 clinicians before COVID made remote training an industry…

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Greg Hanley Spent Thirty-Five Years Proving That Effective ABA and Compassionate ABA Are the Same Thing

March 16, 2026

With 100-plus publications, 15,000 citations, and a clinical method adopted by providers on six continents, Dr. Gregory Hanley is behavior analysis's most influential practitioner-researcher. In August 2024, he brought his entire framework…

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How Lorri Unumb Turned Her Son’s Diagnosis Into the Law That Changed Autism Insurance Forever

March 16, 2026

A DOJ litigator-turned-law-professor wrote a bill at her kitchen table in 2005 because insurance wouldn't cover her son's therapy. Her husband took the laws she passed and made insurers comply with them.…

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Linda LeBlanc Came to Action Behavior Centers to Prove What ABA Can Do. Payers Are Starting to Listen

March 16, 2026

With 130 publications, a former editorship of the field's top journal, and two peer-reviewed studies completed in her first year at Action Behavior Centers, Dr. Linda LeBlanc is constructing something the autism…

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How Ali Satvat Convinced KKR to Bet $5.45 Billion on the Most Underserved Patients in America

March 16, 2026

The architect of KKR's Health Care Strategic Growth platform launched BlueSprig Pediatrics with a blank check and a conviction that the autism therapy sector was where private capital could do the most…

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How Christopher Barnett Built the Nation’s Fastest-Growing Autism Care Company

March 12, 2026

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…

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Action Behavior Centers Has Hyper-Scaled — And Shows No Signs of Slowing Down

March 12, 2026

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,…

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Nebraska Cut ABA Rates by Up to 79%. Here’s What Happened Next — and What It Means for the Rest of the Country

March 12, 2026

In August 2025, Nebraska slashed Medicaid reimbursements for ABA therapy — by 48% for behavior technicians, 51% for parent training, and as much as 79% for some services — setting off a…

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In-House or Out: The ABA Billing Decision That Quietly Makes or Breaks Clinic Cash Flow

March 12, 2026

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…

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From Panic Attacks to Power Broker: How Solome Tibebu Built Behavioral Health Tech Into the Field’s Biggest Tent

March 12, 2026

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…

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Arizona’s Ghost Network Problem: How Mercy Care’s Rate Cuts Triggered the Collapse of Medicaid ABA Access for 1,000 Children — and the Two Lawsuits Trying to Stop It

March 12, 2026

When Arizona’s largest Medicaid insurer tried to cut reimbursement rates for ABA therapy by 40% in a single year, the two biggest providers in the state refused to accept the terms. Mercy…

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Indiana’s $611 Million Problem: How the State Let ABA Costs Run Unchecked — and the Sweeping Reform It Built in Response

March 12, 2026

Indiana’s Medicaid ABA program grew from $17 million to $611 million in six years with almost no oversight, no accreditation requirements, and a billing model that rewarded providers for charging more. A…

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Michele Silcox-Beal Wrote the Book on ABA Revenue Cycle Management

March 12, 2026

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…

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From Seatbelt Handbags to Session Notes: How Nicole Sands Built the ABA Industry’s Go-To Bookkeeper

March 11, 2026

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…

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Rose Griffin Bridged ABA’s Deepest Divide

March 11, 2026

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…

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Leila Farshchian’s Experience in Education and Autism Services Shaped CircaThera

March 10, 2026

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…

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Molly Ola Pinney Took ABA Global

March 10, 2026

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…

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Liat Sacks Turned a Lupus Diagnosis Into ABA’s Most Irreverent Empire

March 9, 2026

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…

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SILNA uses AI to revolutionize the process of obtaining ABA authorizations. And it is mind boggling.

March 9, 2026

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…

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Meaghan Timko Built a Career Bridging the Gap Between ABA and the World Beyond It

March 9, 2026

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,…

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Pediatric Therapy M&A Market Update: More Buyers, More Exit Opportunities

March 9, 2026

If you own an ABA, occupational, physical, or speech therapy practice and are considering a sale—now or in the next few years—the market continues to offer strong opportunities. The latest data confirms…

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