Delaware recorded 24 providers in the latest CMS NPI registry weekly update, representing 0% of the national weekly total reported in the dataset. The registry lists 10 providers new this week and 11 new this year, alongside 18 individuals and 6 organizations. Delaware’s limited share signals that its activity is a small part of the national behavioral health pipeline, although NPI registrations do not necessarily equal active clinical capacity or immediate service availability.
ABA Workforce Mix
The registry identifies 1 BCBA and 2 RBTs, with no dual BCBA-RBT credentials. The credential categories are not mutually exclusive shares of the 24-provider total: they reflect selected credential fields, while other providers carry counseling, social work or related credentials, and taxonomy fields can overlap. Even so, the one-to-two BCBA-to-RBT relationship points to a narrow ABA workforce and limited documented supervisory capacity. Because BCBAs oversee RBTs, design treatment plans and monitor clinical quality, adding direct-service staff without comparable supervisory growth can constrain access.
Demographics and Provider Activity
Among the 18 individual providers, 14 are female, 2 are male and 2 are nonbinary, corresponding to 78%, 11% and 11%. Four providers have multiple taxonomies, another reason the credential and taxonomy counts should not be read as mutually exclusive workforce segments. Wilmington appears repeatedly among the listed locations, with Dover, Odessa, Townsend and Newark also represented. The registry reports no notable organization appearing multiple times; its 6 organizations therefore do not indicate a repeated chain presence in this update.
Delaware’s small documented BCBA and RBT base suggests that ABA access will depend on expanding both direct-service recruitment and supervisory capacity rather than on RBT growth alone.
