Join Behavioral Health Business and hundreds of professionals at Autism Investor Summit — East in Arlington, Virginia, on Nov. 19 to expand your professional network, deepen your business acumen and nurture the business community supporting one of the most deserving patient populations in health care. Secure your ticket now and join the conversation. Payers are increasingly […]

A new study finds that the strongest predictors of care outcomes in autism may not come from how much care a patient receives. Rather, the best predictors of whether symptoms would improve were baseline symptom severity, socioeconomic status, parental concerns about the loss of observed developmental milestones, and the presence of ADHD symptoms. “Interestingly, when […]

Join Behavioral Health Business and hundreds of professionals at Autism Investor Summit — East in Arlington, Virginia, on Nov. 19 to expand your professional network, deepen your business acumen and nurture the business community supporting one of the most deserving patient populations in health care. Secure your ticket now and join the conversation. The Trump […]

Join Behavioral Health Business and hundreds of professionals at Autism Investor Summit — East in Arlington, Virginia, on Nov. 19 to expand your professional network, deepen your business acumen and nurture the business community supporting one of the most deserving patient populations in health care. Secure your ticket now and join the conversation. Forta Health […]

CentralReach, a dominant provider of autism and intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) care software, has acquired AI-focused companies SpectrumAI and AI Measures. The move will expand on the company’s existing AI capabilities with the addition of tools for clinical assessments, video data capture and predictive analytics. Terms of the deals were not disclosed. SpectrumAI, a […]

Positive Development has raised a $51.5 million Series C round to advance a care model that it claims is an alternative to the autism therapy industry’s mainstay therapy: applied behavior analysis (ABA). The McLean, Virginia-based startup bases its clinical approach on developmental relationship-based interventions (DRBI). The company maintains it is already the largest provider of […]

This article is sponsored by Inperium. As the behavioral health landscape evolves, provider organizations are seeking new ways to grow and strengthen their services. Inperium, Inc. partners with nonprofits to help them expand their impact while retaining their mission and identity. In this Voices interview, Ryan Dewey Smith, Founding Executive Chairman and CEO of Inperium, […]

The Autism Impact Fund has secured an additional $10 million from the firm Fairfield-Maxwell Ltd. to support its second investment fund. The move deepens the connection between the two firms. Last year, the Autism Impact Fund announced it closed its first fund, which raised $60 million. Fairfield-Maxwell Ltd. supported that fund. It made $20 million […]

Centene Corp. (NYSE: CNC) is facing mounting cost pressure in its Medicaid business, with rising behavioral health utilization – particularly in applied behavior analysis (ABA) services – emerging as a major driver. As demand for autism-related services expands and oversight of clinical appropriateness tightens, ABA is becoming a flashpoint in payer efforts to manage behavioral […]

Nebraska health officials defended their decision to reduce Medicaid payments for a range of applied behavior analysis (ABA) services. The officials framed the cuts as mitigating an existential threat to the continuation of ABA within Nebraska Medicaid, a move to safeguard tax dollars and protect care quality. “Ultimately, this was about making sure that we […]