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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Articles by Ethan Webb

Behavioral Health Investment Is Moving to Whole-Person Care: Why Investors Are Abandoning the Single-Condition Bet

M&A · May 27, 2026

Behavioral Health Investment Is Moving to Whole-Person Care: Why Investors Are Abandoning the Single-Condition Bet

The decade-long playbook for behavioral health investing—arbitrarily scaling standalone billing codes like ABA—is officially being retired. At the Autism Impact…

Florida Medicaid ABA in 2026: Managed Care Carve-In, a Refreshed Coverage Policy, and Where AHCA Rates Sit Across the Southeast

Regulation · May 26, 2026

Florida Medicaid ABA in 2026: Managed Care Carve-In, a Refreshed Coverage Policy, and Where AHCA Rates Sit Across the Southeast

Florida’s Medicaid behavior analysis landscape has undergone a massive structural shift. With the full implementation of the Statewide Medicaid Managed…

Motivity Acquires Calmanac, Unifying Clinical Data Collection and Operations on a Single Autism Therapy Platform

M&A · May 23, 2026

Motivity Acquires Calmanac, Unifying Clinical Data Collection and Operations on a Single Autism Therapy Platform

Motivity has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Calmanac, the ABA practice management system behind its 2025 platform expansion, uniting…

Optum Is Ending Coverage for ABA Centers of America Patients June 5, Forcing Two-Week Discharges Amid Active Fraud Litigation

Regulation · May 22, 2026

Optum Is Ending Coverage for ABA Centers of America Patients June 5, Forcing Two-Week Discharges Amid Active Fraud Litigation

Multi-state autism therapy giant ABA Centers of America has reportedly notified families covered by Optum that their services will be…

California Medicaid ABA in 2026: A Pending Rate-Setting SPA, a New Direct-Billing Pathway, and the Regional Center Question

Regulation · May 21, 2026

California Medicaid ABA in 2026: A Pending Rate-Setting SPA, a New Direct-Billing Pathway, and the Regional Center Question

California’s Medi-Cal ABA market is sitting in an unusually tense federal-state crossfire. While a $1.1 billion federal freeze on the…

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