Knowledge Base

Structure and compliance,
answered state by state.

Two bodies of knowledge for running and eventually selling an ABA practice: the operating compliance that changes state by state, and the sale and expansion questions that apply everywhere.

Operating Compliance

Six questions every practice has to answer.

Six co-equal pillars, each resolved for your state. Start wherever the pressure is.

Entity Decision

Whether your ABA practice must be organized as a licensed professional entity, and what pushes a given state from optional to required.

PLLC and Entity Structures

How LLC, PLLC, PC, and PA structures differ for an ABA practice, and who is actually eligible to form each one.

MSO and Ownership

How the corporate practice of medicine doctrine, MSO structures, and fee-splitting limits shape outside investment and who can own the practice.

Licensing and Credentialing

Who must be licensed, which board holds them, how credential tiers stack, and what payor credentialing adds on top.

Facility and HIPAA

When facility licensure thresholds apply to your locations, and how HIPAA and records retention obligations attach to your data.

Medicaid and Insurance

How coverage rules, reimbursement, place of service, and payor mix decide whether ABA services are actually profitable.

The Diagnostician Question

The gate before treatment

Who signs the diagnosis, and what it does to your ownership.

Before any ABA can be billed, someone has to diagnose the autism. Who is allowed to sign that diagnosis, and whether you can bring them in house, decides how your practice has to be owned. Resolved state by state, with the operative statute quoted verbatim.

The Diagnostician Question

Who may sign the autism diagnosis, and what bringing that diagnostician in house does to how the practice must be owned. Seventeen states, resolved statute by statute.

The Two Practice Archetypes

What changes across entity form, licensure, Medicaid, insurance, and sale once a diagnostician is inside the practice.

Structure and compliance,answered state by state.

Six questions every practice has to answer.

Entity Decision

PLLC and Entity Structures

MSO and Ownership

Licensing and Credentialing

Facility and HIPAA

Medicaid and Insurance

Who signs the diagnosis, and what it does to your ownership.

The Diagnostician Question

The Two Practice Archetypes

Structure and compliance,
answered state by state.