Nonprofit health care network Catalight has tapped tech company Nabla to cut down on paperwork in the intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) field using AI. Catalight, a Walnut Creek, California-based company, announced this week a partnership with Nabla, in order to use the company’s AI ambient assistant. Under the agreement, Catalight’s clinical staff, which include […]
Autism provider Cortica has raised an $80 million equity round. The funds will help the San Diego-based multispecialty pediatric therapy provider beef up its in-house-build technology stack to improve its precision medicine approach, deepen its market presence and help land innovative value-based care contracts. “We already have a great model that works extremely well,” Neil […]
Kelly (Nasdaq: KELYA, KELYB), a workforce solutions provider, acquired childhood therapeutics company Children’s Therapy Center (CTC). The acquisition expands Kelly’s clinical services in what the company called a “high-margin, high-demand” sector. “The demand for services has been going on for years, actually, and certainly well before the pandemic, when you think about the increase of […]
UNIFI Autism Care reshuffled two C-Suite roles while its CEO seeks new employment. The applied behavior analysis (ABA) provider has named its chief clinical officer, Breanne Hartley, its president. It also appointed Dr. Steven Merahn, a former strategic advisor to the company, its chief medical officer. The company has not yet announced a new CEO. […]
Stride Autism Centers named Emily Patrizi its chief operating officer. The Trumpet Behavioral Health vet plans to focus on precision and operational rigor to continue to evolve Stride’s mission, Patrizi told Autism Therapy Business. She is tasked with overseeing center operations, human resources, technology and data and supporting clinical initiatives. Chicago-based Stride Autism Centers provides […]
Biotech firm MARAbio has raised $19 million in a Series A funding round to accelerate the launch of its blood test for detecting maternal autoantibody-related (MAR) autism. The Salt Lake City, Utah-based biotech company plans to use the funds to bring its proprietary blood testing technology to market. MAR autism is linked to specific patterns […]
After eight years working in the Indiana public schools as a speech-language pathologist (SLP), Ashley Whitaker decided to focus on helping children diagnosed with autism. “Speech is one the first symptoms people recognize in individuals with autism,” Whitaker told Autism Business News. She found a mentor in Janine Shapiro, a speech-language pathologist who had gone […]
The federal government announced in 2014 that Medicaid programs nationwide were required to cover medically necessary diagnostic and treatment services for children with autism. This requirement led to millions of people having access to insurance coverage for applied behavior analysis (ABA) and other autism therapy modalities. Massachusetts’ Medicaid program, MassHealth, has now gone a step […]
More innovative solutions around autism diagnostics are starting to gain momentum. The latest example of this idea: Wyoming’s Medicaid program will cover Cognoa’s Canvas Dx product. According to a Sept. 26 announcement, Wyoming is now the first state to cover Cognoa’s tool for early-autism diagnosis. Dr. Sharief Taraman, CEO of Cognoa, described the move as […]
The need for board-certified behavioral analysts (BCBAs) who provide applied behavior analysis (ABA) has dramatically increased in recent years. In 2023, the number of open job listings for BCBAs even outstripped the total number of practicing clinicians. To help create more BCBAs and create a pipeline of trained clinicians, ABA provider Helping Hands Family has […]
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