North Carolina recorded 429 providers in the latest CMS NPI registry weekly update, representing 4% of the national weekly total. The state added 192 new providers this week, including 346 individuals and 83 organizations. That level of activity places North Carolina among the more concentrated state markets in the national update and points to a broad, active behavioral health infrastructure rather than growth limited to a single provider type or metro area.

ABA Workforce Mix

The registry reports 44 BCBA credentials and 106 RBT credentials, along with 8 dual BCBA-RBT credentials. These categories overlap and are not mutually exclusive: a provider with both credentials can appear in more than one count, and the credential fields do not describe the entire provider population. Even with that limitation, the larger RBT count indicates a direct-service workforce that substantially exceeds the identified BCBA pool. Because BCBAs supervise RBTs and direct treatment planning, the mix suggests expanding service capacity may continue to depend on recruiting and retaining qualified supervisors. The registry also includes 109 providers with multiple taxonomies, another reason category counts should not be treated as shares of the total.

Demographics and Provider Activity

Gender data identifies 285 providers as female, 40 as male and 21 as nonbinary, corresponding to 82%, 12% and 6%. Those counts total 346, matching the individual-provider count. Charlotte, Raleigh, Fayetteville, Durham and Greensboro are listed among the leading cities. Recovery Innovations, Inc. appears four times, while A Different Approach ABA Services, LLC and New Heritage Collective, LLC each appear twice, showing both multi-site activity and smaller organizational expansion.

The update suggests North Carolina’s ABA workforce is growing rapidly, but supervisory capacity and geographic distribution will remain central to whether new provider registrations translate into broader access.