Rise of Digital Adult Autism Services Reveals Blind Spots for Behavioral Health Industry

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 […]

New CDC Data Show 17% Increase in Autism Rate

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 […]

Autism Services Industry Getting Its Groove Back, But the Choreography Is More Complicated

This is an exclusive BHB+ story The autism services industry is getting its groove back after some high-profile hiccups over the last few years. Specifically, investors have reupped interest in the space after a two-year lull. But as the industry comes into the limelight, providers continue to face significant challenges, including potential reductions in Medicaid […]

Autism Providers Leaving Authorized Hours on the Table, Multidisciplinary Care Models Booming

Demand for autism therapy and services for individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) continues to rise. Multidisciplinary models of care are especially becoming more prevalent. Those are just a couple of takeaways highlighted in a new market-insights report from CentralReach. The report pulls from CentralReach’s CanaryBI dataset, which encompasses billions of anonymized clinical and […]

TRICARE Payment Issues Could Jeopardize Autism Care for Military Families

This is an exclusive BHB+ story Autism therapy providers have been pounded across the nation by foul-ups that spoiled the transition of the TRICARE regional contracts at the beginning of the year. Early in the year, complaints about the vendor that administers the western region contract for TRICARE, TriWest Healthcare Alliance, surfaced across several segments […]

Roper Technologies to Buy ABA Software Company CentralReach for $1.65 Billion

Earlier in March, rumors swirled that applied behavior analysis (ABA) software company CentralReach was on the market and seeking a $1 billion valuation. Those rumors have quickly turned into reality. Roper Technologies Inc. (Nasdaq: ROP) announced Monday that it has reached a definitive agreement to buy CentralReach from Insight Partners for a net purchase price […]