Advocates: 44 West Virginia Counties Have No ABA Clinic. At Only $9.90 a Unit, It Is No Surprise
The Mountaineer Autism Project says about 400 of the state’s 11,000-plus autistic children get the therapy, and it wants a rate study released.
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Connecticut Charges ABA Owner and Technician in $602,000 Medicaid Case. Both Face 20-Year Counts.
Prosecutors say Alyse Enderle of Autism Sparkles and Carmen Wynter billed for therapy that was not delivered or not fully delivered, starting in December 2021.
New York Unveils Bold Plan to Cut ABA Rates Below Zero by 2028 (SATIRE)
Officials say halving the technician rate in 12 months went so well that stopping at $9.63 would be “a waste of momentum.”
Bill Would Devastate Healthcare Investing, Ban Common MSOs Structure, Force Divestiture. Is ABA Next?
The federal text also shuts the management-company workaround and grandfathers nothing, giving existing owners one year after enactment to comply.
Acentra’s Minnesota Contract at Risk as Autism Approvals Stall. Providers and Families Face Uncertainty
DHS says Acentra could face corrective action, service removal, or contract termination. A separate notice repeats the 180-day retroactive authorization limit but doesn't explain how to count it.
Thanks, But No Thanks: Temple Rejects $55 Million Pledge From ABA Centers Founder Barnett
Temple University will remove Christopher Barnett’s name from its public health college after ending the commitment by mutual agreement. Federal investigators are examining alleged billing fraud involving his companies.
Nobody’s Going to Call on You: The Problem With Asynchronous BCBA Programs
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.
ABA’s Largest Provider Is Building a Political Machine to Fight Medicaid Cuts
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…
Every Value-Based ABA Model Bets on Fewer Hours
Three companies have built different payment structures with California, Massachusetts, and employer-plan payers. Strip away the mechanics, and each rests on the same wager: that ABA can deliver less treatment and hold…
ABA’s Value-Based Care Experiment Is Showing Results—and Raising Questions
One California partnership has run on capitated payments and adaptive-behavior scores for more than three years, and roughly 80% of its patients progressed while their therapy hours fell. It is the field’s…
The Measurement Problem at the Heart of Value-Based ABA
In one study of 154 children, the share making meaningful gains on their individual treatment goals rose between 12 and 24 months while the share gaining on a standardized adaptive-behavior scale fell.…
How to Organize Your ABA Clinic With Yourganized
The best clinic setup may not be the first one you try.
ABA Clinics Are Bringing Autism Diagnosis In-House to Get Kids Into Therapy Faster
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…
How to Prepare Your Practice for VBC
Payers are writing the rules now. Here’s how to be ready before they’re written for you.
Khaliah Moody Works to Bridge the Gap Between the Education System and Behavior Analysis
Children with disabilities can move between ABA therapy and classrooms where the adults supporting them have little formal behavioral training. Khaliah Moody is building a new line of business around that gap,…
What Does Value-Based Care in ABA Really Mean?
Behind the buzzword: what actually changes when ABA pays for outcomes instead of hours
A Parent’s and Provider’s Field Guide to Handling ABA Network Inadequacy
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…
CMS Lays Out a Roadmap for Medicaid ABA Services with Broad Implications for Clinic Owners
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…
Why Value-Based Care Matters Now: CMS Puts ABA’s Outcomes Problem on the Clock
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.
Annie McLaughlin Uses Curious Collaboration to Reframe IEP Advocacy
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…
Kristen Byra Built Upskill ABA Around the Gap Between Certification and Competence
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…
The Future of ABA Network Adequacy: Telehealth, Enforcement, and Accountability
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…
The Year ABA Providers Started Walking Off Medicaid Panels
Three-quarters of New York’s Medicaid ABA providers told their state association they would leave the program if a second rate cut went through. It went through on April 1.
Wisconsin Brothers Build Custom Sensory Gyms for ABA Clinics
Royalty Sensory Gyms builds its own equipment and offers clinic teams direct access to an owner throughout the design process.
Where Behavior Analysts Are Licensed, and Where They Aren’t
Forty states and Washington, D.C. now regulate the profession, up from zero in 2009. Ten states still rely on national certification alone. The distinction increasingly decides who can practice, supervise, and bill,…
BCBA Pass Rate Hits Record Low as Demand Doubles
First-attempt pass rates hit 51 percent in 2025, the lowest the credentialing board has recorded, even as candidate volume grew by half. The fix the field chose does not fully arrive until…
HHS Extends Comment Period on Contested Autism Plan
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…
Hidden Inadequacies in the ABA Provider Network
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.
CareSource Partially Reverses Georgia Therapy Rate Cut, Leaving Access Uneven
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…
Meghan Edwards Built the Community for In-School BCBAs That She Needed
Meghan Edwards, founder of The Behavior Lounge, a membership community for school-based BCBAs.