The landscape of ABA service delivery is shaped not only by clinical science but also by a complex web of legal, regulatory, and insurance-related factors that directly affect practitioners' ability to provide quality services. This course addresses the intersection of ABA practice and the regulatory environment, covering topics that include mental health parity, provider nondiscrimination, audit and payment issues, supervision requirements, authorization and appeal processes, and ADA protections.
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Join Free →"I skate to where the puck is going, not where it has been." -- Wayne Gretzky. In this breakout, attorney Dan Unumb and BCBA-D Joy Pollard will review hot topics in ABA coverage, delivery and compliance issues impacting the ability of practitioners to deliver quality ABA services in accordance with the newly revised CASP standards. Topics will include developments in parity, provider nondiscrimination, audit and payment issues, including prepayment review, supervision requirements, incident to provisions, authorization and appeal processes, required disclosures, standards of care, ADA issues and access in schools and community settings, and more.
| Certification Body | Credits | Type |
|---|---|---|
| BACB® | 1 | Ethics |
| APA | 0 | — |
| COA | 1 | — |
Dan Unumb is an attorney and the parent of a child with autism. As President of the Autism Legal Resource Center, a national law and consulting firm, he represents professional associations, autism service providers, and individuals with autism spectrum disorders and their families seeking access to services and has briefed autism issues in state and federal courts, including the U.S. Supreme Court. Dan previously served as Executive Director of the Autism Speaks Legal Resource Center. Before beginning full-time autism advocacy, Dan was the Director of Litigation for South Carolina Legal Services, a 10-office, statewide legal aid program. He has served as an adjunct professor in Legal Writing and Advocacy at George Washington University Law School and the Charleston School of Law, and as an instructor at the Justice Department’s National Advocacy Center. Dan graduated from Northwestern University School of Law, and previously practiced with law firms in Boston, Washington, D.C. and Charleston, SC, as well as the Civil Division of the U.S. Department of Justice. Dan is co-author of the law school casebook “Autism and the Law,” and has presented on legal topics pertaining to autism at numerous conferences and trainings including the National Legal Aid and Defenders Association, the Autism Society of America, the Autism Law Summit, the Association of Professional Behavior Analysts, ABAI, and the Council on Autism Services. Dan is the 2020 recipient of the Behavior Analyst Certification Board’s Michael Hemingway Behavior Analysis Award for his work in developing public policy related to behavior analysis and increasing access to behavior-analytic services.
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279 research articles with practitioner takeaways
195 research articles with practitioner takeaways
194 research articles with practitioner takeaways
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