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

North Carolina Medicaid ABA Oversight Tightens as House Bill 696 Becomes Law and a Policy 8F Rewrite Reaches Public Comment. Telehealth, Supervision, and High-Hour Authorization Limits Take Shape as the Comment Window Closes June 14, 2026.

Regulation · Jun 13, 2026

North Carolina Medicaid ABA Oversight Tightens as House Bill 696 Becomes Law and a Policy 8F Rewrite Reaches Public Comment. Telehealth, Supervision, and High-Hour Authorization Limits Take Shape as the Comment Window Closes June 14, 2026.

North Carolina has abandoned blunt reimbursement rate slashes to execute an unprecedented regulatory clampdown on its booming autism services market.…

Massachusetts Medicaid ABA Reimbursement Is Headed for a Rate Freeze as MassHealth Moves to Re-Adopt Its Fee Schedule Unchanged. Providers Pushing for Higher Rates Have Until a June 17 Hearing to Make the Case.

Regulation · Jun 12, 2026

Massachusetts Medicaid ABA Reimbursement Is Headed for a Rate Freeze as MassHealth Moves to Re-Adopt Its Fee Schedule Unchanged. Providers Pushing for Higher Rates Have Until a June 17 Hearing to Make the Case.

The Executive Office of Health and Human Services (EOHHS) has formally proposed to freeze all MassHealth Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA)…

AI in ABA Documentation Is Colliding With Medicaid Program Integrity. CASP Non-Member Mission Award Winner, Dr. Missy Olive, on the Session Notes Auditors Are Reading, and What Providers Still Get Wrong.

Regulation · Jun 11, 2026

AI in ABA Documentation Is Colliding With Medicaid Program Integrity. CASP Non-Member Mission Award Winner, Dr. Missy Olive, on the Session Notes Auditors Are Reading, and What Providers Still Get Wrong.

Artificial intelligence is entering the behavioral health documentation stack significantly faster than state compliance structures can regulate it. At this…

The ABA Workforce Shortage Is a Mentorship and Representation Crisis: Demand for Behavior Analysts Outruns Supply Five to One. Two Practitioners Say the Real Gap Is Guidance, Not Headcount.

Regulation · Jun 11, 2026

The ABA Workforce Shortage Is a Mentorship and Representation Crisis: Demand for Behavior Analysts Outruns Supply Five to One. Two Practitioners Say the Real Gap Is Guidance, Not Headcount.

The clinical narrative surrounding the ABA workforce shortage usually focuses on recruiting bottlenecks. However, data from the BHASe summit exposes…

Compassionate Care in ABA Moves From Pilot Study to Operational Practice. A 360 Behavioral Health Researcher Explains What Survives the Translation.

Regulation · Jun 10, 2026

Compassionate Care in ABA Moves From Pilot Study to Operational Practice. A 360 Behavioral Health Researcher Explains What Survives the Translation.

Moving a complex clinical intervention out of an institutional review board (IRB) study and into a multi-state provider network requires…

1 6 7 8 9 10 38