Hawaii recorded 63 providers in the latest CMS NPI registry weekly update, representing 1% of the national weekly total. The state added 42 new providers this week, bringing its year-to-date additions to 45. That sharp weekly increase, despite Hawaii’s small national share, points to a concentrated burst of registry activity rather than a large mainland-scale provider market.
ABA Workforce Mix
The registry identifies 3 BCBA credentials and 41 RBT credentials, with no dual BCBA-RBT credentials reported. These categories are not mutually exclusive: credential fields and taxonomy fields can overlap, and the full provider count also includes counselors, social workers, psychologists and other behavioral health professionals. The registry reports 8 multi-taxonomy providers, further underscoring why credential counts should not be read as separate shares of the total. Still, the much larger RBT presence than BCBA presence signals a direct-service workforce with limited supervisory capacity. Because BCBAs oversee RBTs and clinical programming, that imbalance may constrain how quickly new technicians can be deployed.
Demographics and Organizations
Hawaii’s registry includes 58 individuals and 5 organizations. Gender data lists 42 female providers, 13 male providers and 3 nonbinary providers, corresponding to 72%, 22% and 5%. The listed activity spans Honolulu, Waipahu, Waianae, Hilo and Kailua, with additional providers across other communities. No notable organization appears multiple times in the update, so the data does not indicate repeated activity by a named provider chain.
Overall, Hawaii’s surge is RBT-heavy and geographically broad, suggesting potential ABA access growth, but the state’s small BCBA pool remains a likely workforce bottleneck.
