by Ethan Webb | Mar 6, 2026 | Regulation
Key Takeaways The FY2026 enacted budget already authorized two Medicaid rate reductions for CPT code 97153, the primary billing code for one-to-one ABA therapy: the first brought the rate to $16.85 per 15-minute unit on October 1, 2025; the second will reduce it to...
by Ethan Webb | Mar 4, 2026 | Technology
There is a clinic owner in Oklahoma who, until recently, had not taken a vacation in five or six years. Not because she lacked the desire, or the means, but because if she stepped away from her desk—even briefly—payroll might not make it to her employees. She was...
by Ethan Webb | Mar 2, 2026 | Technology
For decades, the field of Applied Behavior Analysis has wrestled with a deceptively simple question: How many hours of therapy does a child with autism need? The answer, depending on whom you ask, might be ten hours a week, or it might be forty. It might depend on the...
by Ethan Webb | Mar 2, 2026 | Regulation
The state of Indiana has, for the better part of a decade, been locked in an escalating financial reckoning over how it pays for one of the most common treatments for autism. Applied behavior analysis, or ABA, arrived on Indiana’s Medicaid rolls in 2016 as a modestly...
by Ethan Webb | Feb 27, 2026 | M&A
There is a particular shade of corporate blue (you know the one) that has colonized healthcare branding with the persistence of kudzu. It signals trust, professionalism, and an absence of imagination so profound it approaches a kind of purity. Against this backdrop,...
