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

ABA Treatment Intensity: Seven Autism Therapy Providers Benchmarked Their Own Outcomes. Their Data Backed the Case for Intensity, and Bet That Transparency Can Lift the Field.

Technology · Sep 2, 2026

ABA Treatment Intensity: Seven Autism Therapy Providers Benchmarked Their Own Outcomes. Their Data Backed the Case for Intensity, and Bet That Transparency Can Lift the Field.

Seven autism therapy providers independently benchmarked their own outcomes against CASP’s intensity standards. Six shared the results with Acuity, in…

ABA Onboarding Hit 136 Hours Against a 40-Hour BACB Floor: One Multi-Site Provider Cut RBT Training Nearly in Half, and Early Turnover Fell Instead of Rising.

Technology · Sep 2, 2026

ABA Onboarding Hit 136 Hours Against a 40-Hour BACB Floor: One Multi-Site Provider Cut RBT Training Nearly in Half, and Early Turnover Fell Instead of Rising.

Multi-site ABA organizations frequently accumulate bloated onboarding systems as departments layer independent requirements over time. At Little Leaves Behavioral Services,…

Oklahoma Medicaid ABA Rates Carried Forward Unchanged Into July 2026 While Spending More Than Doubled. The Health Care Authority Says It Tightened Oversight Before Raising Rates.

Regulation · Sep 2, 2026

Oklahoma Medicaid ABA Rates Carried Forward Unchanged Into July 2026 While Spending More Than Doubled. The Health Care Authority Says It Tightened Oversight Before Raising Rates.

The Oklahoma Health Care Authority (OHCA) reissued its Title XIX SoonerCare provider fee schedule effective July 1, 2026, holding all…

ABA Outcomes Data at Scale: Behavioral Framework Published Six Months of Skill Acquisition Results for 1,090 Children. Now It Is Asking the Rest of the Field to Do the Same.

Technology · Sep 1, 2026

ABA Outcomes Data at Scale: Behavioral Framework Published Six Months of Skill Acquisition Results for 1,090 Children. Now It Is Asking the Rest of the Field to Do the Same.

Addressing the behavioral health field's lack of organizational-scale clinical outcomes data, multi-state provider Behavioral Framework and software platform Hi Rasmus…

ABA Insurance Verification Still Runs on Phone Calls: 96 Percent of Medical Eligibility Checks Are Electronic, and the Standard Transaction Cannot Answer an ABA Benefit Question.

Technology · Sep 1, 2026

ABA Insurance Verification Still Runs on Phone Calls: 96 Percent of Medical Eligibility Checks Are Electronic, and the Standard Transaction Cannot Answer an ABA Benefit Question.

Speaking at the ABA C.A.R.E.S. Summit in Boston, Silna CEO Jeffrey Morelli highlighted a core friction point in behavioral health…