Los Angeles recorded 107 providers in the latest CMS NPI registry weekly update, representing 1% of the national weekly total. The registry added 54 new providers this week, bringing the year-to-date addition to 58 providers. The city’s records include 94 individuals and 13 organizations, signaling substantial provider activity in a large, diversified behavioral health market. The NPI count does not establish that every listing is actively practicing, accepting referrals or associated with a staffed service location.
ABA Credential Mix
The update identifies 4 BCBA providers and 42 RBT providers. These credential totals should not be treated as mutually exclusive, although the registry reports 0 dual-credential providers holding both BCBA and RBT credentials. The wide gap between behavior analysts and technicians points to a workforce weighted toward direct-care delivery rather than clinical supervision. In ABA operations, that imbalance can constrain caseload growth, treatment-plan oversight and the ability to deploy RBTs across additional clients. The registry also reports 33 providers with multiple taxonomies. Those classifications can overlap with credential categories and with one another, so they should not be added to produce a separate workforce total.
Workforce Demographics
Women account for 54 providers, or 57% of the reported workforce. Men account for 21 providers, or 22%, while 19 nonbinary providers, or 20%, are listed; the displayed percentages do not sum to 100% because of rounding or unclassified records. No notable organization is identified as appearing multiple times in the update. Overall, Los Angeles’s activity suggests expanding behavioral health participation, but ABA access will depend on building BCBA supervision capacity alongside its much larger RBT workforce.
