Houston recorded 72 providers in the latest CMS NPI registry weekly update, representing 1% of the national weekly total. The registry added 33 new providers this week, bringing the year-to-date count to 38 new registrations. The total includes 50 individuals and 22 organizations, indicating substantial local activity across both independent practitioners and behavioral health entities.
ABA Credential Mix
The registry lists 6 BCBA providers and 20 RBT providers, with no providers reported as holding both credentials. Because credential and taxonomy fields can overlap, these counts should not be treated as mutually exclusive shares of all Houston providers. The roughly 1-to-3.3 BCBA-to-RBT ratio points to a workforce weighted toward direct implementation rather than clinical supervision. That structure can support service volume, but access may depend on whether the registered BCBAs have capacity to supervise the larger RBT workforce. The data also shows 22 providers with multiple taxonomies, a count that may include organizations and practitioners represented across overlapping behavioral health classifications.
Workforce Demographics
Houston’s individual provider records are predominantly female: 42 practitioners, or 84%, are listed as female. The registry identifies 7 male practitioners, or 14%, and 1 nonbinary practitioner, or 2%. No notable organization appears multiple times in the update, so the data does not point to a dominant employer driving registrations. Overall, Houston’s new activity and RBT-heavy mix suggest expanding ABA workforce participation, while the smaller BCBA pool may remain a constraint on supervised service access.
