Nebraska's behavioral health sector registered 76 providers in the latest CMS update, comprising 1% of the national total. This group includes 65 individuals and 11 organizations. A significant portion of this activity is recent, with 42 providers added this week, making up most of the 45 providers added year-to-date. This signals a concentrated burst of new workforce and entity registrations in the state.
ABA Workforce Composition
Within the applied behavior analysis field, the update includes 19 RBTs and 4 BCBAs. One additional provider holds dual BCBA and RBT credentials, bringing the total count of individuals with a BCBA credential to five and those with an RBT credential to 20. This creates a 4-to-1 ratio of RBTs to BCBAs, a healthy figure that suggests sufficient supervisory capacity is being added alongside the direct-care workforce. The data also includes 17 providers with multiple taxonomy classifications, indicating a range of interdisciplinary skills.
Provider Demographics
Among the individual providers, the workforce is predominantly female, with women accounting for 68% of new registrants. Male providers make up 22%, and 11% identify as nonbinary. Provider activity is concentrated in population centers like Omaha, Lincoln, and Bellevue. No single organization appeared multiple times in this week's data, suggesting growth is distributed across various smaller or new entities rather than being driven by a large multi-state chain.
This data indicates a steady expansion of Nebraska's ABA workforce, particularly at the RBT level, which is a positive indicator for improving access to behavioral health services across the state.
