The operational picture for ABA practices has shifted meaningfully over the last 18 to 24 months. Some of the change is ...

The guidelines would bolster Medicaid’s oversight of autism therapy, focusing on a growing business that is drawing scrutiny from federal investigators.

In the past decade, there has been a significant increase in the utilization of Applied Behavioral Analysis (ABA) therapy, in large part because of expanded coverage under all Medicaid programs since ...

Medicaid paid over $5.15 billion for ABA therapy between 2018 and 2024, and prosecutors are now targeting alleged fraud schemes worth tens of millions.

Medicaid paid over $5.15 billion for ABA therapy between 2018 and 2024, and prosecutors are now targeting alleged fraud schemes worth tens of millions.

The autism therapy industry is a growing target for government enforcement. As I discussed recently in Emerging Target: Federal Enforcement Comes ...

Tara covers the business of health care. Her stories focus on hospitals, doctors, and how their business practices affect patients — especially when private equity gets involved. She also writes about ...

Aubreigh Osborne has a new best friend. Dressed in blue with a big ribbon in her blond curls, the 3-year-old sat in her mother’s lap carefully enunciating a classmate’s first name after hearing the ...

Applied behavior analysis (ABA) is a therapy for autism that encourages certain behaviors and discourages others. ABA therapy is controversial, as some argue that it reinforces the idea that autistic ...