BCBAs are in higher demand than they have ever been.
Waitlists are long, referrals keep climbing, and there are not enough certified clinicians to meet demand. It is a shortage every ABA operator feels.
That forces a question for any clinic: how much of a BCBA’s day goes to care, and how much disappears into paperwork?
Assessments and reassessments are where that imbalance shows up most. The report has to be thorough, it has to hold up with payers, and it takes hours the clinician does not have. Those hours come out of care. The cognitive load of switching between clinical work and document assembly adds a cost the clock does not capture.
Today Frontera and Motivity are partnering to change that. BCBAs complete their assessments and reassessments in Frontera, where each report is drafted from their own client data, checked by an automated scan for gaps, then they review and sign. The finished results push directly into Motivity, with no copy and paste and no duplicate data entry between systems.
The time this frees up goes back to clinical work. A BCBA can focus on judgment, oversight, and the family in front of them instead of formatting a document. They still own every report. They just no longer start from a blank page.
Clinics using Frontera cut report writing time by about 75% and see a 57% higher initial claim acceptance rate. That means less time on paperwork, fewer reports sent back by payers, and more reassessments completed while the clinical picture is still current.
The strongest operators are already moving this way. Instead of asking clinicians to grind out more hours, they are equipping them with tools that take the admin load out of the day, so the same team can serve more families and improve the care each one gets.
The partnership is part of a bigger direction for Frontera. The tools a clinic already trusts should work together, data should flow once, and the clinician’s judgment should stay at the center. Motivity joins leading partners like Passage Health and Catalight, each integration built on the same idea: reduce the burden on clinicians so more of their energy reaches care.
When the admin weight comes off a BCBA, the effect goes past saved hours. One clinician can reach more families, and the care each receives improves. With demand outpacing the number of clinicians, that is how access to care grows.
See how Frontera works for clinics on Motivity → https://go.fronterahealth.com/motivity
