Ethan Webb

Ethan Webb

Staff Writer, Acuity Media Network

Ethan Webb is a staff writer at Acuity Media Network, where he covers the business of autism and behavioral health care. His reporting examines how financial pressures, policy changes, and market consolidation shape the ABA industry — and what that means for providers and families. Ethan holds a BFA in Creative Writing from Emerson College and brings more than seven years of professional writing and editing experience spanning healthcare, finance, and business journalism. He has served as Managing Editor of Dental Lifestyles Magazine and has ghostwritten multiple titles that reached the USA Today and Wall Street Journal bestseller lists.

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State Transaction Review Laws Now Catch the Small Deals Behind ABA Consolidation

M&A · Oct 6, 2026

State Transaction Review Laws Now Catch the Small Deals Behind ABA Consolidation

While individual outpatient Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) and behavioral health acquisitions fall well beneath federal Hart-Scott-Rodino (HSR) antitrust reporting thresholds,…

ABA Payer Relations Run on Outcomes Data, Say Magellan and CentralReach Leaders

Regulation · Oct 5, 2026

ABA Payer Relations Run on Outcomes Data, Say Magellan and CentralReach Leaders

Mid-sized Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) providers face a rapidly evolving managed care landscape where rate negotiations, medical necessity reviews, and…

New OCR Guidance Ties Medicaid Work-Requirement Exclusions to the Consent a Patient Signed at Intake

Regulation · Oct 5, 2026

New OCR Guidance Ties Medicaid Work-Requirement Exclusions to the Consent a Patient Signed at Intake

A September 29, 2026 guidance document from the HHS Office for Civil Rights (OCR) establishes that state Medicaid agencies verifying…

Georgia Medicaid ABA Enrollment Drops Its 50-Mile Residency Rule Four Months After DCH Tightened It. October Rules Trade Fixed Supervision Ratios for Audits.

Regulation · Oct 2, 2026

Georgia Medicaid ABA Enrollment Drops Its 50-Mile Residency Rule Four Months After DCH Tightened It. October Rules Trade Fixed Supervision Ratios for Audits.

Four months after proposing strict supervision ratios and a 50-mile geographic residency cap for remote Board Certified Behavior Analysts (BCBAs),…

MDMA Couples Therapy Signals a Dyadic Turn in How Psychedelic Treatment Would Be Delivered

Regulation · Oct 2, 2026

MDMA Couples Therapy Signals a Dyadic Turn in How Psychedelic Treatment Would Be Delivered

As Resilient Pharmaceuticals resubmits its MDMA application to the FDA and COMPASS Pathways advances psilocybin through Phase 3 trials, the…

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