Trump administration health care officials on Wednesday revealed further information about plans to create an autism spectrum disorder (ASD) data bank – a project that has sparked a mix of support, skepticism and alarm from autism-community stakeholders. On May 7, the U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced a new “landmark” partnership with […]

Making value-based care a reality in autism therapy requires meta, if not somewhat circular, functions. Change management, operational compliance and fraud prevention require autism therapy providers to set up monitoring systems to track their data collection processes. In other words, provider organizations need to set up a process to ensure that their clinical and operational […]

Lower-middle-market private equity firm NexPhase Capital has acquired the autism therapy provider Behavior Frontiers. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. Lorient Capital, a health care-focused private equity firm, previously backed Behavior Frontiers, helping it expand its footprint to include 26 centers and home-based care branches across 12 states. It’s not clear if Lorient […]

The pressure is on in the autism therapy industry to standardize care akin to other, more well-established sectors of health care. The industry must come to a consensus on care quality, how to measure it, and how to communicate it with payers and other major constituencies. With spending on autism therapies by payers and funding […]

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is backing off of its plans to create a national registry of autistic people as part of its effort to centralize data about the condition.  Rather, HHS will instead spend tens of millions of dollars linking existing federal databases, according to a statement from the agency […]

UPDATE: On April 24 the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) announced it does not plan to create a national registry of people with autism. Instead, it will invest $50 million into comprehensive research efforts. Read the coverage here. Under the direction of U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert […]

This is an exclusive BHB+ story Adults with autism often face a dearth of service options despite billions of dollars of public and private investment into behavioral health care.  This lack of adult-specific, neuroaffirming therapy reveals blind spots on the part of both the autism therapy and outpatient mental health space.  “The education programming is […]

The latest data shows a roughly 17% increase in the autism rate among children in 2022 compared to 2020.  Data from the Autism and Developmental Disabilities Monitoring (ADDM) Network, a part of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), finds that the national rate is now 32.2 per 1,000 among eight-year-old children, or 1 […]

When Kim Hoehne, owner and CEO of KGH Autism Services, was five years old, she knew what she wanted to be when she grew up. “I’d tell people I want to wear Mickey Mouse t-shirts and help kids,” Hoehne told Autism Business News. “I had no idea what that meant, but that is what it […]

Autism therapy organizations often evolve from discrete passion projects into business enterprises almost by accident, driven by motivated founders seeking to fulfill some personal mission. Without adequate succession planning, the handoff could be chaotic when the founder is ready to end that chapter of their life. Clear-eyed and specific planning in the early stages of […]