The Diagnosis Isn’t Late. The Report Is.
How to meaningfully cut your autism evaluation report writing time The testing finished on a Tuesday in March. The mother called in April to ask where the report was. Whoever answered the phone had no real answer, because the honest one wasn’t clinical: the psychologist had four reports ahead of hers, and the next testing […]
3 Back to School Tools For Your Next School Meeting
We recently hosted a back-to-school webinar for our parent community, led by Morgan van Diepen, BCBA and Co-Founder of ABA Visualized & BIP Visualized. It was built for caregivers, however three of the tools she covered are just as useful in a BCBA’s back-pocket when you’re collaborating with a classroom teacher this fall. Here they […]
The Sections Payers Read First in an ABA Assessment Report
The Sections Payers Read First in an ABA Assessment Report A payer reviewer reads an ABA assessment report in a fixed order: diagnosis and date, functional impairment data, goals with baselines, requested hours tied to those goals, supervision structure, caregiver involvement, discharge criteria. The review stops at the first gap. A payer reviewer is not […]
Frontera and Motivity partner to take the paperwork off BCBAs
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 […]
What the New CMS ABA Toolkit Means for Your Clinic
CMS released the State Medicaid and CHIP Applied Behavior Analysis Toolkit on August 4. While the toolkit creates no new immediate federal requirements, doesn’t touch EPSDT obligations, and doesn’t endorse a single model of ABA, it serves as a blueprint for change that will fundamentally alter how your clinic operates. The toolkit is a checklist […]
10 simple strategies to fight BCBA burnout in autism care
Over the last few decades, major advancements in autism care and Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) therapy have been made. But even with these improvements, too many Board Certified Behavior Analysts (BCBAs) and clinical autism teams face skyrocketing levels of burnout. Why? These professionals chose a career in autism care to help families and kids—not to […]