Behavioral Health Business September 9, 2024
Medicaid reimbursement rates are largely trending upward for autism therapy providers, but burdensome regulations still pose significant hurdles to growth.
To overcome these challenges and improve rates, all players in the autism therapy industry, including private equity firms, must become involved in advocacy work, industry insiders said at the Behavioral Health Business Autism & Addiction Treatment Forum.
“No margin, no mission,” Darren Patz, partner of government affairs and public policy at international law firm DLA Piper, said at the event. “You get the rates, and everything can flow from that.”
Medicaid reimbursement for services performed by registered behavior technicians (RBTs) and board-certified behavior analysts (BCBAs) is relatively new, according to Patz, so states are still in the process of...
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