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.

LinkedIn Profile

Articles by Ethan Webb

Medicaid ABA Rate Cuts Will Not Stop Fraud, Waste, and Abuse, Provider Advocates Argue

Regulation · Jul 6, 2026

Medicaid ABA Rate Cuts Will Not Stop Fraud, Waste, and Abuse, Provider Advocates Argue

Multi-state behavioral health networks and clinical policy experts are mounting a unified defense against a national wave of Medicaid rate…

Offshore Medical Billing and Shadow AI: The Behavioral Health Patient Data Privacy Gap No One Is Auditing

Regulation · Jul 6, 2026

Offshore Medical Billing and Shadow AI: The Behavioral Health Patient Data Privacy Gap No One Is Auditing

The rapid acceleration of healthcare revenue cycle automation has outpaced the compliance guardrails meant to protect patient privacy. Across the…

42 CFR Part 2 Compliance Is Now Mandatory, and Enforcement Has Begun. The Overhauled Addiction-Records Rule Aligns With HIPAA and Carries Real Civil Penalties.

Regulation · Jul 3, 2026

42 CFR Part 2 Compliance Is Now Mandatory, and Enforcement Has Begun. The Overhauled Addiction-Records Rule Aligns With HIPAA and Carries Real Civil Penalties.

The domestic substance use disorder and behavioral health landscapes are absorbing an unprecedented regulatory realignment. Reaching its hard compliance deadline…

The ABA Field Struggles to Agree on What a Meaningful Outcome Is, and Value-Based Care Is Forcing the Question

Regulation · Jul 2, 2026

The ABA Field Struggles to Agree on What a Meaningful Outcome Is, and Value-Based Care Is Forcing the Question

As value-based care frameworks disrupt traditional fee-for-service models, the behavior-analytic community faces an intense definitional crisis. Frontier clinician and CASP…

Illinois Medicaid ABA Rates Have Not Moved Since 2022, Even as the State Reissued Its Fee Schedule in 2026

Regulation · Jul 2, 2026

Illinois Medicaid ABA Rates Have Not Moved Since 2022, Even as the State Reissued Its Fee Schedule in 2026

The Illinois Department of Healthcare and Family Services (HFS) has finalized its 2026 Adaptive Behavior Support (ABS) fee schedule reissue,…

1 2 3 37