Kentucky recorded 101 providers in the latest CMS NPI registry weekly update, representing 1% of the national weekly total. The file lists 45 providers added this week and 50 this year; 82 are individuals and 19 are organizations. That share signals Kentucky is a small part of weekly national registry activity, not a measure of the state’s full behavioral health workforce or available services.
ABA Workforce Mix
The credential summary lists 7 BCBAs and 14 RBTs, with no dual BCBA-RBT credentials reported. The RBT count is twice the BCBA count, suggesting a technician pool that depends on a smaller group of supervisors to oversee services and guide clinical practice. The figures should not be read as a complete or mutually exclusive census: credential entries can overlap, and some records list multiple credentials. The data also reports 31 providers with multiple taxonomies, which can further complicate comparisons across categories. Several records identify BCBAs with Kentucky’s LBA credential, including entries combining BCBA and LBA; the credential summary does not provide a separate LBA total.
Demographics and Organizations
Women account for 68 providers, or 83%, and men account for 14, or 17%; no nonbinary providers are reported. No organization appears in the supplied notable-organizations field, so the update does not identify a repeated employer. Listed cities include Louisville, Prestonsburg, Lexington, Bowling Green and Florence. The high share of women and the presence of RBT records show activity across individual provider registrations, but the registry does not establish where providers work or whether they deliver ABA services.
Kentucky’s update points to a larger reported RBT pool than BCBA pool, making supervisory recruitment important if ABA capacity is to expand.
