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Understanding ABA billing codes is essential to getting claims paid correctly. This guide breaks down the core CPT codes, provider requirements, modifiers, billing units, and common coding mistakes that can lead to denials.

Motivity and Boost both serve ABA practices, but they solve different problems. While Motivity focuses on flexible clinical data collection, Boost strengthens the business around care with scheduling, credentialing, caseload management, billing, and AI powered automation designed to reduce administrative work and help practices get paid cleanly.

Compare Boost and Rethink for ABA practice management, from scheduling and credentialing to billing, intake, and AI assisted operations. See how Boost helps practices connect workflows, prevent revenue issues earlier, and reduce administrative burden.

CentralReach and Boost both help ABA practices manage operations, billing, and scheduling, but they take very different approaches. See how Boost uses connected workflows, upstream compliance, automation, and AI to help practices reduce administrative work, improve clean claims, and scale more efficiently.

EVENT RECAP By Stephen Donaldson Esq., Chief Revenue Officer at Boost Some conferences you attend. Others you roll up your sleeves for. The ABA C.A.R.E.S. Summit, held August 4-7 at the Boston Marriott Long Wharf, was firmly the second kind, and I came home glad we did. Billed as the summit dedicated to workforce and operational alignment for ABA providers, ABA C.A.R.E.S. brought together owners, clinical directors, and HR leaders to move past theory and into the practical wo

On a panel at ABA C.A.R.E.S. in Boston, five software leaders including Boost's Stephen Donaldson broke down the questions buyers skip and the early signals that a rollout has already failed. If my software can't prove itself, I shouldn't force you to stick around just because I needed a three-year agreement.Stephen Donaldson, CRO, Boost Read on Acuity -->

Acuity named Boost Head of Product Lindsay Quinlan among the product leaders shaping ABA software, spotlighting Boost's bet on scheduling that understands clinical judgment rather than treating the calendar as a grid. The right tool earns trust by understanding their judgment well enough to take that work off their plate. -Lindsay Quinlan, Head of Product, Boost Read on Acuity -->

As signature sponsor at CASP 2026, Boost previewed its agentic AI approach to the ABA lifecycle, automating the intake-to-billing workflow so clinic staff spend less time on manual data entry and more on client care. Read on Acuity -->

ABA claims are denied when a payer declines to pay for a service that was delivered, most often because the service fell outside authorization limits, carried a coding or modifier error, or lacked documentation supporting the billed units. Because applied behavior analysis is almost entirely authorization-driven and high-volume, small front-end errors turn into denied claims at a scale other specialties rarely see. The good news: the large majority of ABA denials are preventa

ABA revenue cycle management (RCM) is the end-to-end process of tracking a client’s financial journey through an ABA practice, from insurance verification and authorization at intake, through session documentation and claim submission, to payment posting and denial follow-up. In applied behavior analysis, where a single client can generate dozens of billable sessions a month across multiple authorized codes, RCM is what determines whether a practice actually collects the reve