Delaware added 27 behavioral health providers to the CMS NPI registry this week. This represents a very small fraction of the national total, rounding to 0%, indicating localized growth rather than a significant national influx of new behavioral health professionals.
ABA Workforce Composition
Within the applied behavior analysis sector, the data shows 3 providers with BCBA credentials and 5 providers with RBT credentials. Notably, there were no providers holding both BCBA and RBT credentials in this update. The resulting ratio of RBTs to BCBAs, approximately 1.67 to 1, is significantly lower than typical industry averages. This suggests a potentially high supervision capacity per RBT, which could mean a well-supported direct service workforce, or it reflects a relatively small overall ABA workforce in the state.
Provider Demographics
Of the 22 individual providers in this update, 100% are female, with 0 male or nonbinary individual providers recorded. The remaining 5 providers are organizations. No specific organizations appeared multiple times in this week's data, suggesting a diverse landscape of smaller practices rather than dominance by large multi-state chains. Provider activity is concentrated in cities such as Wilmington, Newark, and Middletown.
This data suggests a modest, predominantly female-led expansion of behavioral health services in Delaware, with a small but potentially well-supervised ABA workforce poised to address local needs.
