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Market Outlook

Tracking the M&A, funding rounds, and strategic shifts shaping the ABA platform and provider ecosystem.

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

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

Recent events — from valuation compression in vertical healthcare software to restructuring within managed behavioral health — reinforce how unsettled parts of the autism ecosystem remain. Capital markets are reassessing durability assumptions. Infrastructure bets are being recalibrated. But even if financing conditions stabilize and enterprise platforms regain footing, provider consolidation faces a

When Integration Fails to Tame Behavioral Risk

When Integration Fails to Tame Behavioral Risk

What the Magellan Sale Signals for Autism Economics When a national Medicaid payor publicly identifies ABA as a major driver of earnings pressure — and then exits its managed behavioral asset at a loss — that is not routine portfolio management. It is a repricing of behavioral risk. Centene acquired Magellan Health

How Autism Care Actually Scales: A Systems View

How Autism Care Actually Scales: A Systems View

Why technology, operations, and markets—not just clinicians—determine access to care There is a familiar narrative in autism services: access to care scales when we train more clinicians, support them better, and deploy the right clinical tools. This narrative is not wrong—but it is incomplete. And increasingly, it

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

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

Nearly every recent conversation I’ve had with friends and colleagues carries an undercurrent of anxiety about what artificial intelligence will mean for people trying to find and keep good jobs. The tone is often uneasy — as if the shift has already begun and there’s no turning back. That

The New ABA Operator Persona

The New ABA Operator Persona

How a new generation of non-clinical, tech-native founders is reshaping how ABA organizations scale A Different Kind of ABA Leader For much of the industry’s history, providers were led either by clinicians (BCBAs who grew into executives) or private-equity-backed operators focused on rapid scaling. Both models had clear strengths,

Choosing the Right HR Platform for ABA Providers

Choosing the Right HR Platform for ABA Providers

HR isn’t just about payroll, entering new hires or updating employee demographics. In ABA, it means managing credentialing, multi-state compliance, high-turnover frontline staff, and aligning workforce data with the rest of the ABA stack. The HR system you choose shapes how scalable your operations will be — and whether you

How Integrated Data Scales ABA Care — From Silos to Signals (Motivity Motivators Podcast)

How Integrated Data Scales ABA Care — From Silos to Signals (Motivity Motivators Podcast)

Why connecting PM/EHR with payroll, credentialing, incentives, and ATS turns data silos into decision signals that scale access and quality in ABA. In Motivity’s Motivators Podcast, I joined CEO Smith Anderson and CCO Emaley McCulloch for a roundtable on the future of ABA operations and technology. The conversation