Association for Behavior Analysis International

Market data forecasts up to 4% average yearly growth of ABA treatment programs up to $2.23 billion by 2022. The Behavior Analyst Certification Board (BACB®) has reported annual demand for individuals credentialed clinicians holding (i.e., BCBA/BCBA-D) certification has to have increased each yearly since 2010, with a 1,942% increase from 2010 to 2018 (2019). Accordingly, business owners and senior-level management need must to be equipped with appropriate tools to make organization-wide decisions. This ‘how-to’ symposium will describe available technology to analyze ABA business data. This includes but is not limited to running queries within data and reports and developing dashboards and other visualizations. This session will also describe how data reporting may be used to create usable dashboards to guide behavior analysts in providing appropriate dosing of therapy to clients, ensuring authorizations are utilized appropriately, and analyzing data regarding therapy cancellations. Finally, this session will also review one organization’s process of completing a business intelligence assessment and utilizing financial data to meet business initiatives for best practice. In the end, data analyzed in these ways may be used to develop business insights that may lead to increased productivity, revenues, and growth for ABA companies.

Senior level behavior analysts ABA Business Management

In this session, the authors will present sample dashboard data created from reporting within ABA practice management software. The authors will demonstrate how behavior analyst productivity may be tracked as well as how analyses may be conducted related to contract utilization, session cancellation, and human resource management. The authors will describe how data visualization led to agency-wide policy and procedural changes to improve business and client outcomes.