San Diego recorded 74 providers in the latest CMS NPI registry weekly update, representing 1% of the national weekly total. The registry added 47 new providers this week, bringing the year-to-date count to 52 new providers. With 72 individuals and 2 organizations, the activity signals a concentrated and rapidly changing behavioral health market. NPI registrations, however, reflect enrollment activity rather than confirmed staffing, active caseloads or available appointments.
ABA Credential Mix
The update identifies 3 BCBAs and 39 RBTs. No providers were recorded with dual BCBA-RBT credentials. These credential categories should not be treated as mutually exclusive with other professional categories: providers can appear under multiple credentials or taxonomies, and 10 providers have multiple taxonomies. The data also includes speech-language pathologists, counselors, social workers, psychologists and other behavioral health professionals. The much larger RBT group suggests substantial direct-care workforce activity, but the small BCBA cohort indicates limited apparent supervisory capacity relative to the RBT population. In practice, those BCBAs may supervise teams beyond the NPI records identified here, but the registry does not show caseloads or employment relationships.
Workforce Demographics
Women account for 56 providers, or 78% of the reported workforce. Men account for 5 providers, or 7%, while 11 nonbinary providers represent 15%. No organization appears multiple times among the notable organizations; the two organizational records are Community Research Foundation Inc. and Speech Tree Speech Therapy Center Inc. The registry’s broad mix of behavioral health disciplines, combined with heavy RBT enrollment and comparatively few BCBAs, suggests growing ABA access in San Diego alongside a continuing need to expand supervisory capacity.
