Washington D.C. recorded 44 providers in the latest CMS NPI registry weekly update, representing 0% of the national weekly total reported in the data. The registry lists 21 new providers this week, including 39 individuals and 5 organizations. The zero-percent share indicates that the District’s activity is small relative to the national update or rounds below the reporting threshold, even as new NPI entries point to ongoing behavioral health market activity.
ABA Workforce Mix
The registry identifies 9 RBT credentials and no BCBA or dual BCBA-RBT credentials. The data also includes one RBT in the credential-text field, while RBT appears as a taxonomy for the listed providers; these fields can overlap and should not be treated as mutually exclusive counts. Sixteen providers have multiple taxonomies, further limiting direct comparisons between credential totals and the overall provider count. Still, the absence of recorded BCBAs alongside RBT activity suggests a limited documented supervision base. Because BCBAs supervise RBTs and oversee treatment planning and clinical quality, that imbalance could constrain ABA capacity unless supervisors work across organizations or are not captured under the BCBA field.
Gender and Provider Activity
Among the 39 individual providers, 29 are female, or 74%, and 10 are male, or 26%; no nonbinary providers are recorded. All listed activity is concentrated in Washington, and no notable organization appears multiple times in the update. The broader mix includes social workers, speech-language pathologists, counselors, case managers and behavioral health agencies, showing that the registry captures a multidisciplinary behavioral health workforce rather than an ABA-only market.
Washington D.C.’s RBT presence without recorded BCBAs suggests that ABA access will depend on strengthening local supervisory capacity and clarifying how provider credentials are represented in the registry.
