Iowa recorded 50 providers in the latest CMS NPI registry weekly update and was assigned a 0% share of the national weekly total. The update lists 18 new providers this week, all 18 also counted as new this year. Iowa’s total includes 32 individuals and 18 organizations. The reported national share is zero, so the registry depicts Iowa as a small portion of the week’s overall activity rather than a concentrated national market. NPI activity reflects registrations and updates, not necessarily active clinical capacity or immediate service availability.
ABA Workforce Mix
The credential data lists 0 BCBA credentials, 2 RBT credentials and 0 dual credentials combining BCBA and RBT status. These credential categories overlap with other credential and taxonomy fields and should not be treated as mutually exclusive shares of the 50-provider total. The absence of a listed BCBA alongside two RBTs points to limited identifiable ABA supervision capacity in this update. Because BCBAs supervise RBTs and direct clinical programming, RBT registrations without corresponding BCBA registrations may signal that Iowa’s ABA activity is being captured incompletely or that supervisory capacity is not expanding at the same pace as direct-service roles.
Demographics and Activity
Among individual providers, the registry identifies 28 as female, four as male and zero as nonbinary; the corresponding reported figures are 88%, 13% and 0%. The gender counts total 32, matching the individual-provider count, although the displayed percentages exceed 100% when added because of rounding. Waterloo, West Des Moines, Des Moines, Johnston and Dubuque are the listed leading cities. VGM Group, Inc. appears seven times, all under the Case Management Agency taxonomy, showing repeated organizational records rather than seven distinct named employers.
Iowa’s update suggests a broad behavioral-health registry presence but a small, clearly documented ABA pipeline, making BCBA recruitment and verification important to future access.
