Industry Analysis

Khaliah Moody Works to Bridge the Gap Between the Education System and Behavior Analysis

August 22, 2026 · 9:00 AM

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,…

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What Does Value-Based Care in ABA Really Mean?

August 20, 2026 · 9:30 AM

Behind the buzzword: what actually changes when ABA pays for outcomes instead of hours

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A Parent’s and Provider’s Field Guide to Handling ABA Network Inadequacy

August 19, 2026 · 9:00 AM

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…

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CMS Lays Out a Roadmap for Medicaid ABA Services with Broad Implications for Clinic Owners

August 18, 2026 · 9:30 AM

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…

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Why Value-Based Care Matters Now: CMS Puts ABA’s Outcomes Problem on the Clock

August 17, 2026 · 9:30 AM

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.

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Annie McLaughlin Uses Curious Collaboration to Reframe IEP Advocacy

August 14, 2026 · 9:00 AM

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…

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Kristen Byra Built Upskill ABA Around the Gap Between Certification and Competence

August 13, 2026 · 9:00 AM

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…

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The Future of ABA Network Adequacy: Telehealth, Enforcement, and Accountability

August 10, 2026 · 9:00 AM

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…

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The Year ABA Providers Started Walking Off Medicaid Panels

August 9, 2026 · 9:00 AM

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.

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Wisconsin Brothers Build Custom Sensory Gyms for ABA Clinics

August 8, 2026 · 10:25 AM

Royalty Sensory Gyms builds its own equipment and offers clinic teams direct access to an owner throughout the design process.

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Where Behavior Analysts Are Licensed, and Where They Aren’t

August 7, 2026 · 3:30 PM

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,…

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BCBA Pass Rate Hits Record Low as Demand Doubles

August 7, 2026 · 9:30 AM

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…

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HHS Extends Comment Period on Contested Autism Plan

August 6, 2026 · 2:30 PM

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…

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Hidden Inadequacies in the ABA Provider Network

August 6, 2026 · 9:00 AM

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.

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CareSource Partially Reverses Georgia Therapy Rate Cut, Leaving Access Uneven

August 5, 2026 · 9:00 AM

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…

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Meghan Edwards Built the Community for In-School BCBAs That She Needed

August 4, 2026 · 9:00 AM

Meghan Edwards, founder of The Behavior Lounge, a membership community for school-based BCBAs.

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NIH Backs Adaptive Telehealth Parent Training for Autism

August 2, 2026 · 9:00 AM

A newly funded study tests whether stepping families up from a self-directed online program to therapist coaching only when needed can broaden access without diluting results. The design tracks where the evidence…

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Autism Screening Via Gaze Tracking, Retina Imaging May Help Children Receive ABA Sooner

August 1, 2026 · 1:30 PM

An FDA-cleared eye-tracking device is already in clinics while retinal photographs, a flash of light, and the pupil race to catch up. What the science can do now, and what it still…

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When the Auditor Is an Algorithm: AI Comes for ABA Billing

July 27, 2026 · 11:00 AM

Indiana is piloting AI to flag Medicaid fraud just as it freezes new autism-therapy enrollment. For ABA providers, the era of algorithmic claims surveillance has arrived, and other states are watching.

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ABA Workers Strike in Maryland. Union Fights Spread. Clinics Squeezed as Funders Slash Reimbursement

July 24, 2026 · 2:30 PM

A walkout at Verbal Beginnings puts a spotlight on the pay and support pressures facing behavior technicians and the BCBAs who supervise them.

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92507 Is Going Away. ABA Companies That Offer Speech Therapy Need to Prepare

July 23, 2026 · 2:45 PM

The AMA rejected a last rescue attempt in May, and the rule CMS proposed on July 14 starts the pricing process, with final rates due in November.

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North Carolina Is Tightening ABA Medicaid. Providers May Feel the Workforce Impact First

July 20, 2026 · 2:45 PM

House Bill 696 is now law, but the policy language that determines how it will work is still changing. The clearest effects will be on staffing, remote supervision, authorization workload, and the…

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The Rural ABA Opportunity

July 16, 2026 · 10:00 AM

For many rural families, the nearest BCBA is a county or more away.

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Aetna to Build a Preferred Network for Autism Providers

July 15, 2026 · 4:03 PM

The insurer already runs a quality tier with published, exacting criteria, and the payer trade group Aetna shares with Optum, Centene, and Carelon is now drafting the standard that the rest of…

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ABA and Pediatric Therapy M&A: What the First Half of 2026 Tells Us About Today’s Buyers

July 15, 2026 · 12:15 PM

Twenty-two deals in six months signal a market that has stabilized, not stalled — but the buyers writing checks today look nothing like the growth-chasers of 2021. Operational discipline, multidisciplinary care models,…

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Unity Behavioral Services Designs Its Own Individualized ABA Model

July 11, 2026 · 9:30 AM

The family-owned Georgia- and Texas-based provider, led by founder Armon Aghaie, is pitching a purpose-driven model and a set of company-reported outcomes it says set it apart as it plans to grow.

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CHOP Forms 50-50 Autism Therapy Venture With Soar

July 10, 2026 · 8:00 AM

The nonprofit hospital is funding its half of the startup costs for a network that could grow to dozens of early-intervention centers. This gives SOAR a referral pipeline and the brand of…

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Freedom and Behavior Analysis on the Semiquincentennial

July 9, 2026 · 6:00 PM

Dr. Scott O’Donnell standing in front of Independence Hall during the Fourth of July.

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A Call to Action During Oregon’s BCBA Presses Board to Reform RBAI Licensing

July 8, 2026 · 12:15 PM

Christina Williams will use this Friday’s public Behavior Analysis Regulatory Board meeting to push five changes to how Oregon trains and licenses its entry-level analysts. She is asking the field to show…

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ABA Network Adequacy: Cracking the Math and Rules Behind the Metrics

July 8, 2026 · 8:00 AM

Regulators turn “enough providers” into formulas, from miles and minutes to a 10-business-day clock for visits. How those numbers are drawn decides who reaches an in-network BCBA and who only appears to…

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