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 […]
Category: Autism/IDD
This is an exclusive BHB+ story U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said multiple times earlier in the week that autism is an “epidemic” and a “disease.” Industry insiders and advocates en masse have since pushed back. These assertions are incredibly stigmatizing. You don’t have to be a journalist or some […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Since 2011, ABS Kids has grown from a 400-person operation to a workforce of nearly 5,000. It has done so across a footprint of more than 40 applied behavior analysis (ABA) therapy locations, while adding nearly a dozen diagnostic clinics in five states. In just the last two years, ABS Kids has also grown its […]
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 […]
CEO transition at Ivy Rehab Ivy Rehab has named Jason Strauss its new CEO after the acting CEO, Michael Rucker, announced his plans to retire at the end of April. Strauss has 20 years of experience in the health care industry. Most recently, he served as CEO of ambulatory care provider SCA Health. His resume […]