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ABA Never Built a Common Utilization Benchmark. The Wall Street Journal Did.

ABA Never Built a Common Utilization Benchmark. The Wall Street Journal Did.

The Journal built a utilization benchmark from Medicaid claims. Now providers face a harder question: Can they produce the clinical data needed to explain the differences? Sixty-nine children in Arizona's Medicaid program switched autism-therapy providers between 2019 and 2024, all moving to the same large provider.

ABA's Missing Mergers

ABA's Missing Mergers

Brellium’s $23 Million Bet Beyond ABA — Without Leaving It Behind

Brellium’s $23 Million Bet Beyond ABA — Without Leaving It Behind

Provider SCUBA September 2026 Update

Provider SCUBA September 2026 Update

How AB Spectrum Designed a Tech Stack for Growth

How AB Spectrum Designed a Tech Stack for Growth

September 2026 Platform SCUBA Update

September 2026 Platform SCUBA Update

Provider Operations

ABA Never Built a Common Utilization Benchmark. The Wall Street Journal Did.

ABA Never Built a Common Utilization Benchmark. The Wall Street Journal Did.

The Journal built a utilization benchmark from Medicaid claims. Now providers face a harder question: Can they produce the clinical data needed to explain the differences? Sixty-nine children in Arizona's Medicaid program switched autism-therapy providers between 2019 and 2024, all moving to the same large provider.

Point AI at Your Operation, Not Your Software

Point AI at Your Operation, Not Your Software

Your New Practice Management Platform Is Also Your Next 'Legacy' Platform

Your New Practice Management Platform Is Also Your Next 'Legacy' Platform

What a Platform Has to Prove Before an ABA Provider Will Switch

What a Platform Has to Prove Before an ABA Provider Will Switch

Almost Everyone Wants to Switch. Almost No One Does.

Almost Everyone Wants to Switch. Almost No One Does.

Every Provider Already Has an Operating Layer

Every Provider Already Has an Operating Layer

Untethering Your Operations from Your Tech Platform

Untethering Your Operations from Your Tech Platform

ABA Stack

How AB Spectrum Designed a Tech Stack for Growth

How AB Spectrum Designed a Tech Stack for Growth

Most technology strategies begin with software. What practice management platform should we use? Which CRM? Which HR platform? Should we build or buy? At AB Spectrum, those weren't the first questions. Technology mattered. It just wasn't the starting point. Instead, the leadership team began by defining

When the Work Moves, Can Your Technology Move With It?

When the Work Moves, Can Your Technology Move With It?

When a Workflow Becomes a Product

When a Workflow Becomes a Product

Whose Data Does Artificial Intelligence Compound On?

Whose Data Does Artificial Intelligence Compound On?

Your New Practice Management Platform Is Also Your Next 'Legacy' Platform

Your New Practice Management Platform Is Also Your Next 'Legacy' Platform

What a Platform Has to Prove Before an ABA Provider Will Switch

What a Platform Has to Prove Before an ABA Provider Will Switch

Almost Everyone Wants to Switch. Almost No One Does.

Almost Everyone Wants to Switch. Almost No One Does.

Market Outlook

ABA's Missing Mergers

ABA's Missing Mergers

Part One of MissionViewpoint's series: Where Capital Is Betting on ABA ABA looks like a market that should be consolidating. It's highly fragmented, demand for services continues to grow, and many of its largest providers have spent years investing in the technology, people, and processes needed

How Did a $792 Hourly Rate for Autism Services Make It Through?

How Did a $792 Hourly Rate for Autism Services Make It Through?

Why Autism Care Is Ripe for Consolidation — and Why It Keeps Failing

Why Autism Care Is Ripe for Consolidation — and Why It Keeps Failing

When Integration Fails to Tame Behavioral Risk

When Integration Fails to Tame Behavioral Risk

How Autism Care Actually Scales: A Systems View

How Autism Care Actually Scales: A Systems View

Bold Prediction: AI Will Actually Create Jobs in the Autism Field

Bold Prediction: AI Will Actually Create Jobs in the Autism Field

The New ABA Operator Persona

The New ABA Operator Persona

Newsletter

Investor Briefings

ABA's Missing Mergers

ABA's Missing Mergers

Part One of MissionViewpoint's series: Where Capital Is Betting on ABA ABA looks like a market that should be consolidating. It's highly fragmented, demand for services continues to grow, and many of its largest providers have spent years investing in the technology, people, and processes needed

Brellium’s $23 Million Bet Beyond ABA — Without Leaving It Behind

Brellium’s $23 Million Bet Beyond ABA — Without Leaving It Behind

Hi Rasmus Raises $50 Million. What Kind of Platform Is It Becoming?

Hi Rasmus Raises $50 Million. What Kind of Platform Is It Becoming?

Motivity’s Calmanac Acquisition Is About More Than Practice Management

Motivity’s Calmanac Acquisition Is About More Than Practice Management

The KPIs Autism Care Relies On — and What They Miss

The KPIs Autism Care Relies On — and What They Miss

Provider Consolidation Reality: Why Value Breaks Before It’s Realized

Provider Consolidation Reality: Why Value Breaks Before It’s Realized

Autism M&A Is Active — But True Consolidation Still Hasn’t Arrived

Autism M&A Is Active — But True Consolidation Still Hasn’t Arrived

Topic: AI & Automation

Whose Data Does Artificial Intelligence Compound On?

Whose Data Does Artificial Intelligence Compound On?

Part Three of MissionViewpoint's series: AI doesn't create organizational intelligence. It amplifies it. Imagine an ABA provider spends two years using AI to improve utilization. At the end of those two years, what does the organization possess that it didn't possess when it started?

Point AI at Your Operation, Not Your Software

Point AI at Your Operation, Not Your Software

You're Using AI. That's Not the Same as Building It.

You're Using AI. That's Not the Same as Building It.

How Operating Layers Create Strategic Advantage & Adaptability

How Operating Layers Create Strategic Advantage & Adaptability

Your Measurement Framework Is Only as Good as the Data You Actually Own

Your Measurement Framework Is Only as Good as the Data You Actually Own

When the Autism Tech Stack Becomes the Risk

When the Autism Tech Stack Becomes the Risk

The Hidden Cost of Building Your Own Stack in the Age of AI

The Hidden Cost of Building Your Own Stack in the Age of AI

Platform SCUBA

September 2026 Platform SCUBA Update

September 2026 Platform SCUBA Update

Theme: Platform strategies begin to diverge Over the past several months, Platform SCUBA has tracked vendors becoming more deliberate about what they build, what they integrate, and where they believe they can differentiate. September made those choices more visible. New capital is being directed toward enterprise scale rather than acquisition.

August 2026 Platform SCUBA Update

August 2026 Platform SCUBA Update

July 2026 Platform SCUBA Update

July 2026 Platform SCUBA Update

June 2026 Platform SCUBA Update

June 2026 Platform SCUBA Update

May 2026 Platform SCUBA Update

May 2026 Platform SCUBA Update

April 2026 Platform SCUBA Update

April 2026 Platform SCUBA Update

March 2026 Platform SCUBA Update

March 2026 Platform SCUBA Update

Provider SCUBA

Provider SCUBA September 2026 Update

Provider SCUBA September 2026 Update

⚠️ Methodology Reminder SCUBA = Scott’s Completely Unscientific Behaviorist Assessment — a deliberately imperfect, directional look at staffing momentum across ABA providers. This is not a census. LinkedIn undercounts direct-care staff, headcount lags payroll, and public job postings reflect intent more than execution. But across 130+ organizations tracked consistently over time,

Provider SCUBA August 2026 Update

Provider SCUBA August 2026 Update

Provider SCUBA July 2026 Update

Provider SCUBA July 2026 Update

Provider SCUBA June 2026 Update

Provider SCUBA June 2026 Update

Provider SCUBA May 2026 Snapshot

Provider SCUBA May 2026 Snapshot

Provider SCUBA April 2026 Snapshot

Provider SCUBA April 2026 Snapshot

Provider SCUBA March 2026 Snapshot

Provider SCUBA March 2026 Snapshot

Operator Spotlight

How AB Spectrum Designed a Tech Stack for Growth

How AB Spectrum Designed a Tech Stack for Growth

Most technology strategies begin with software. What practice management platform should we use? Which CRM? Which HR platform? Should we build or buy? At AB Spectrum, those weren't the first questions. Technology mattered. It just wasn't the starting point. Instead, the leadership team began by defining

How Behavioral Framework Is Building an Operating Layer on Top of Its Systems

How Behavioral Framework Is Building an Operating Layer on Top of Its Systems

Operator Spotlight: SpringHealth Behavioral Health: Bridging Gaps Across Age and Care Models

Operator Spotlight: SpringHealth Behavioral Health: Bridging Gaps Across Age and Care Models

Operator Spotlight on Lighthouse Autism Center: Scaling Diagnostic Capacity Without Compromising Rigor

Operator Spotlight on Lighthouse Autism Center: Scaling Diagnostic Capacity Without Compromising Rigor

Operator Spotlight: Wild Sun Behavioral Services - Preserving a Human Centered Care Model

Operator Spotlight: Wild Sun Behavioral Services - Preserving a Human Centered Care Model

Operator Spotlight: Caravel Autism Health’s CR Mobile Rollout as a Change Management Playbook

Operator Spotlight: Caravel Autism Health’s CR Mobile Rollout as a Change Management Playbook

Operator Spotlight on Jaybird ABA: Designing a Clinician-First Practice without Leaving the Floor

Operator Spotlight on Jaybird ABA: Designing a Clinician-First Practice without Leaving the Floor

Category: Practice Management

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Your New Practice Management Platform Is Also Your Next 'Legacy' Platform

What a Platform Has to Prove Before an ABA Provider Will Switch

Almost Everyone Wants to Switch. Almost No One Does.

Untethering Your Operations from Your Tech Platform

Motivity’s Calmanac Acquisition Is About More Than Practice Management