ABA Therapy
Track BCBA certifications, RBT credentials, supervision requirements, and Medicaid enrollments for every provider in your practice. Credentialing Now replaces spreadsheets with a system designed for applied behavior analysis.
ABA practices manage a unique mix of BACB certifications, state licenses, and Medicaid requirements. Our platform handles the complexity so your team doesn't have to.
Automatically track BACB certification cycles, renewal deadlines, and continuing education unit requirements for every Board Certified Behavior Analyst and BCaBA in your practice.
Monitor Registered Behavior Technician certification status, annual competency assessments, and renewal timelines across your entire RBT workforce. Get alerts before certifications expire.
Upload supervision contracts, caseload assignments, and other RBT oversight records to each provider's file. Build custom checklists with reminders so onboarding and recurring tasks stay on track.
Navigate the growing patchwork of state-specific ABA licensing laws. Track state behavior analyst licenses alongside BACB certifications, as many states now require both to practice.
Manage Medicaid provider enrollment and revalidation for ABA services. Track enrollment status by state, rendering provider assignments, and revalidation deadlines to prevent billing disruptions.
Track continuing education units across BACB content areas including ethics, supervision, and substantive topics. Monitor compliance with the Ethics Code for Behavior Analysts and document completed training.
Add your BCBAs, BCaBAs, and RBTs. Upload existing BACB certifications, state licenses, supervision agreements, and Medicaid enrollment documents. We'll help you get everything migrated.
The platform automatically monitors expiration dates for BACB certifications, state licenses, RBT competency assessments, and Medicaid enrollments. You'll get alerts before anything lapses.
With every provider's credentialing current and documented, your practice stays compliant with BACB and state requirements and your Medicaid reimbursements keep flowing without interruption.
ABA credentialing layers BACB certification, state licensure, and payer enrollment on top of each other — and RBT-delivered services add supervision documentation that most other specialties never deal with. Here's the full picture.
BCBAs, BCaBAs, and RBTs each hold a distinct BACB credential with its own renewal cycle: RBTs renew annually with a competency assessment, while BCBAs and BCaBAs recertify every two years with continuing education requirements. A mid-sized practice is tracking dozens of staggered renewal dates across all three roles at once.
A growing number of states license behavior analysts — often as an LBA — on top of BACB certification, and in those states the license is what payers and Medicaid check. The license and the certification renew through separate bodies on separate schedules, so the same BCBA can carry two credentials that expire in different months.
Medicaid is the dominant payer for ABA services in many states, and enrollment is entirely state-specific: which credentials qualify, whether RBTs register individually, and how rendering providers attach to the agency all differ by program. Enrollments then have to survive revalidation cycles, or claims stop paying.
Commercial plans often require documented BCBA supervision for RBT-delivered services before they'll pay for them, and the BACB sets its own ongoing supervision requirements for RBTs and BCaBAs. Supervision agreements, caseload assignments, and supervision-hour records all need to be current and retrievable when a payer audits.
Each BCBA needs an individual Type 1 NPI and the agency needs a Type 2 NPI to bill as an organization. Many commercial payers also pull BCBA applications from CAQH ProView, which means a profile that must be re-attested every 120 days — a short clock that keeps resetting for every analyst on the roster.
Because so much ABA revenue flows through Medicaid, screening every employee against the OIG and SAM.gov exclusion lists is a baseline compliance expectation — and with high RBT turnover, the roster changes constantly. Payers also want a current certificate of insurance on file at enrollment and re-credentialing.
Usually not. RBT-delivered services are typically billed under the supervising BCBA or the agency, though some state Medicaid programs do register or enroll RBTs individually. Either way, payers expect the RBT certification to be current and the BCBA supervision relationship to be documented, so RBT credentials and supervision records need the same tracking discipline as any payer-facing credential.
Each BACB credential runs on its own cycle. RBTs renew annually and must complete a renewal competency assessment; BCBAs and BCaBAs recertify on a two-year cycle with continuing education requirements, and BCaBAs also practice under ongoing BCBA supervision. A practice with all three roles is tracking one-year and two-year cycles side by side, staggered by each person's certification date.
In a growing number of states, yes. Many states now license behavior analysts (often as an LBA), and in those states the license is required to practice or to enroll with Medicaid, with BACB certification typically a prerequisite. The license and the certification renew on separate schedules through separate bodies, so both need to be tracked for the same person.
For commercial payers, usually yes: many plans pull BCBA applications from CAQH ProView, which requires re-attestation every 120 days. Medicaid programs generally run their own enrollment portals instead. Credentialing Now tracks CAQH attestation deadlines alongside Medicaid revalidations and sends automated reminders, so neither system's clock gets missed.
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