Washington D.C. added 20 behavioral health providers in the latest CMS NPI registry weekly update. This represents a 0% share of the national weekly total, indicating a very small fraction of new providers nationally and suggesting limited expansion in the district's behavioral health sector this week.
ABA Workforce Composition
Within the applied behavior analysis field, the update includes 2 Registered Behavior Technicians (RBTs) among the new individual providers. Notably, there are no Board Certified Behavior Analysts (BCBAs) and no dual BCBA+RBT credentials reported this week. This absence of new BCBAs, who are critical for supervising RBTs and ensuring quality ABA service delivery, alongside a minimal number of RBTs, signals a significant challenge for expanding the district's ABA service capacity.
Provider Demographics
Among the 18 individual providers, the gender distribution is relatively even: 8 female (44%), 9 male (50%), and 1 nonbinary (6%). The update also includes 2 organizations, "QUEENVISION HEALTH SERVICES LLC" and "HISTORIC HEALTHCARE SERVICES, LLC", neither of which appeared multiple times in this week's data. No multi-state ABA chains were identified among the new organizations.
The limited addition of RBTs and the complete lack of new BCBAs in this update suggest that D.C. faces substantial barriers to growing its ABA workforce and enhancing access to services.
