Rhode Island added 12 new behavioral health providers in the latest weekly CMS update, representing 0% of the national total for new additions. The state's total provider count in this update is 37, comprising 32 individuals and 5 organizations. This modest influx reflects Rhode Island's compact size, where individual provider additions, while locally significant, represent a negligible fraction of broader national trends.
ABA Workforce Composition
Focusing on applied behavior analysis, the data identifies 5 BCBAs and 3 RBTs based on their primary credentials. Notably, one of the BCBAs also holds a "CAGS" credential, appearing as "CAGS, BCBA." There were no providers holding both BCBA and RBT credentials simultaneously. This ratio of supervisors to technicians, with more BCBAs than RBTs, suggests a strong capacity for clinical oversight for existing RBTs, potentially allowing for high-quality supervision within the state's ABA sector.
Provider Demographics
Among the 32 individual providers, the workforce exhibits a clear gender distribution, with 26 identified as female, making up 81%. Six providers were identified as male, accounting for 19%. There were no nonbinary providers recorded. No specific organizations appeared multiple times in this week's data, suggesting a diverse landscape of smaller practices or individual practitioners rather than dominant multi-state chains.
This data suggests a relatively small but well-supervised ABA workforce in Rhode Island, where the strong BCBA-to-RBT ratio could support high-quality service delivery, though overall access might be limited by the modest number of practitioners.
