Boost vs Motivity
Boost and Motivity are built for different jobs: Motivity is known for flexible clinical data collection, while Boost runs the operational and financial engine of your practice, scheduling, credentialing, caseload management, and billing. This page compares the two so you can see which fits your practice.
Key Takeaways
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Boost is RCM-first: sessions are made compliant at booking, so claims are clean before they're created.
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Credentialing, authorizations, and scheduling run on the same payer rules, protecting time-to-bill.
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Boost's Scheduling Agent re-optimizes the schedule in real time when a therapist calls out or coverage changes.
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Boost prices as a percentage of claims, not per seat, so cost scales with revenue instead of headcount.
Where Boost is different
Boost is built RCM-first: every session is made compliant at the moment of booking, so claims are clean before they're created. Credentialing, authorizations, and scheduling all check the same payer rules, which is how Boost holds a 99.4% clean-claim rate. Motivity's strength is on the clinical documentation side, with flexible, configurable data collection tools, rather than the operational and billing engine that determines whether that clinical work gets paid for.
Pricing
Boost charges a percentage of claims, not a per-seat fee, so cost tracks with revenue instead of headcount. Motivity prices per learner, roughly $24 to $48 per learner per month, and every active learner counts from day one whether or not that authorization is actually billing yet. Additional capabilities also arrive as separately priced modules.
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One important flag: this table shows Motivity has a lot more built in than the "clinical data collection only" framing I used throughout the webpage copy, FAQs, and blog post. It lists native scheduling AI, caseload management (AI matching + utilization), an intake portal, and authorization tracking, not just data collection.
The real, verified gaps according to this table are narrower and more specific:
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Schedule recovery: Boost yes, Motivity no — Motivity can't rebuild the schedule in real time after a callout.
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Agentic AI: Boost's agents carry work through end to end; Motivity is "assistive AI, not agentic" — suggestions only.
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Compliance/credentialing: add-on module for Motivity vs. native for Boost.
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Billing/RCM: Motivity's managed billing is new (introduced 2026) vs. Boost's established, full-service RCM.
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Pricing structure: per-learner plus paid add-on modules vs. Boost's revenue-based model.
Who each platform is best for
Who Boost is best for
ABA practices that want billing and operations working as one system, where getting paid cleanly is the priority. Especially strong for teams that would rather have compliance built into scheduling and credentialing than manage it separately, and that prefer pricing tied to revenue instead of seats.
Who Movity is best for
Practices whose top priority is flexible, clinician-driven data collection. Motivity is genuinely strong for BCBAs who want to tailor how they capture session data rather than work within a fixed structure, and organizations already trained on its workflows may find switching costs outweigh the benefit if clinical documentation is their main need.
When to consider a switch
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Claims and denials are getting harder to track.
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Credentialing or auth windows slip and cost you billable hours.
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Scheduling changes, like a therapist calling out, require manual rebuilding instead of automatic re-optimization.
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Clinical documentation is solid, but scheduling, credentialing, caseload, and billing are still costing your team time.
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Billing and clinical data live in separate systems with no shared operational foundation.
Frequently asked questions
How is Boost different from Motivity?
Motivity is built for flexible clinical data collection. Boost is built to run the business around that clinical work: scheduling, credentialing, caseload management, and billing that prevents denials before they happen. If your practice's biggest pain point is operations and getting paid, that's Boost.
How does Boost help ABA practices reduce claim denials?
Boost checks the things that cause denials, active coverage, available authorization, provider credentialing, and payer rules, before a session is even scheduled. That means problems get caught upstream instead of turning into rejected claims your billing team has to chase down after the fact.
How does Boost handle scheduling when a therapist calls out?
Boost's Scheduling Agent automatically re-optimizes the schedule around one or multiple cancellations, working through several possible moves in real time instead of a single manual swap. Your team reviews and approves the plan.
Does Boost include credentialing and caseload management?
Yes. Boost tracks every provider's credentialing status across payers with expiration alerts, and keeps caseload management connected to the same system as scheduling and billing, so BCBAs and RBTs stay balanced without manual reconciliation.