Washington D.C. recorded 42 providers in the latest CMS NPI registry weekly update, representing 0% of the national weekly total. The registry added 14 new providers this week, bringing the year-to-date total to 19. The district’s small share of national activity, alongside its concentrated provider base, signals a limited but active market rather than broad statewide expansion.
ABA Workforce Mix
The registry reports no BCBA credentials and 5 RBT credentials, with no dual BCBA-RBT credentials. These categories are not mutually exclusive: credential fields and taxonomy fields can overlap, and 18 providers have multiple taxonomies. The broader count also includes counselors, social workers, case managers, speech-language pathologists and behavioral health agencies. Still, the absence of BCBAs alongside RBT representation points to little documented supervisory capacity in this update. Because BCBAs supervise RBTs and oversee treatment design, the pattern could constrain the expansion of ABA services unless clinicians are registered under other credentials or outside the update’s captured categories.
Provider Profile
Individuals account for 36 providers, compared with 6 organizations. Gender data identifies 25 female providers, 10 male providers and 1 nonbinary provider, corresponding to 69%, 28% and 3%. The registry’s notable-organizations field lists none, so no organization appears multiple times in that summary. Washington is the leading listed city, with NE also appearing among the top locations.
Overall, the update suggests a small, multidisciplinary D.C. behavioral health market with RBT activity but no recorded BCBA credentials, making supervisory coverage a potential barrier to near-term ABA access and workforce growth.
