by Ethan Webb | Feb 26, 2026 | Regulation
Reed Walker spent two decades watching the applied behavior analysis industry grow from a cottage practice into a private equity darling. He started as a paraprofessional, the entry-level technician who spends hours each day working directly with children on the...
by Ethan Webb | Feb 25, 2026 | M&A
For the better part of six years, behavioral health providers have operated under a set of rules that were never meant to last. The telehealth flexibilities first introduced during the COVID-19 pandemic—allowing clinicians to treat Medicare patients remotely, from...
by Ethan Webb | Feb 24, 2026 | M&A
The conversation about what makes an ABA company valuable tends to drift toward abstraction: scale, infrastructure, clinical quality. These words appear in pitch decks and investment memoranda, repeated until they lose whatever meaning they once possessed. But when a...
by Ethan Webb | Feb 18, 2026 | Technology
Ralston has spent 25 years in ABA, from the days of VHS tapes and Scantron exams to the private equity consolidation wave. Now she’s CEO of a PE-backed provider, and she has opinions about what the industry is getting wrong. Amanda “Mandy” Ralston...
by Ethan Webb | Feb 12, 2026 | M&A
The CDC has reported that around one in 31 U.S. children aged eight has been identified with autism spectrum disorder, an increase from the previously reported rate of one in 36. As autism diagnoses continue to rise, applied behavior analysis (ABA) providers have...
