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General CEU: Understanding the Cost of Delivering ABA Services

Understanding the Cost of Delivering ABA Services becomes clinically important the moment a team has to turn good intentions into reliable action inside clinical documentation, payer communication, supervision records, and leadership review. In the Cost of Delivering ABA Services, for this course, the practical stakes show up in service continuity, accurate reporting, and defensible clinical decisions, not in abstract discussion alone.

Provider: BehaviorLive — via Council of Autism Service Providers

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Course Description

Join us for a discussion around recent cost surveys issued in Ohio and Illinois to help providers and payers better understand the true costs involved in delivering ABA services. This lecture will discuss the various components that comprise the overall "cost" to provider agencies who provide ABA and strategies for tracking and understanding these practice expenses, both direct and indirect, to help providers understand what their reimbursement needs are when negotiating contracts with health plans.

What You'll Learn

  1. Describe methods to track a variety of expense types, including components to consider when trying to ensure their reimbursement is sufficient to cover their expenses.
  2. Better understand direct and indirect time and the role it plays when evaluating sufficiency of reimbursement rates for direct time.
  3. Demonstrate insight into how to use their agency's comprehensive cost information when negotiating contracts with health plans, or seeking modified reimbursement rates with payers they are already on panel with.

CEU Credits Earned

Certification BodyCreditsType
BACB® 1 General
APA 0
COA 1

About the Instructor

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Jen Gonda
MSEd, BCBA, COBA

Jen has worked in the field of ABA since 2010; she started as a behavior technician and then became a certified supervisor (Board Certified Behavior Analyst, BCBA) in 2013. Through her work over the past 12 years, Jen has worked with over 20 different schools and collaborated with various agencies that service individuals with disabilities. Jen is finishing her PhD in special education at the University of Pittsburgh, where she is an Urban Special Education Scholar receiving funding from the national Office of Special Education Programs. She was the previous board president at the Autism Society of the Mahoning Valley and created and spearheaded their flagship event: a summer camp for children with autism. Currently, Jen sits on the board of the Ohio Association of Behavior Analysis as the public policy chairperson. In this position, she collaborates with the state legislature and various state agencies regarding the practice of ABA in Ohio. This work allows her to stay up to date on laws and services for people that struggle with challenging behavior.

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Clinical Disclaimer

All behavior-analytic intervention is individualized. The information on this page is for educational purposes and does not constitute clinical advice. Treatment decisions should be informed by the best available published research, individualized assessment, and obtained with the informed consent of the client or their legal guardian. Behavior analysts are responsible for practicing within the boundaries of their competence and adhering to the BACB Ethics Code for Behavior Analysts.

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