Montana recorded 23 providers in the latest CMS NPI registry weekly update, representing 0% of the national weekly total. The update includes 8 providers added this week and 10 added this year, with 16 individuals and 7 organizations. That limited share signals a small, dispersed registry footprint rather than a large pipeline of new behavioral health capacity. NPI activity reflects records, not confirmed staffing, caseloads or appointment availability.
ABA Workforce Mix
The credential summary lists 1 BCBA, no RBTs and no dual BCBA-RBT credentials. The categories are not mutually exclusive in general, but Montana’s update reports no dual-credential records to add to the totals. The single BCBA indicates very limited documented ABA supervisory capacity in this snapshot, while the absence of RBT records offers no evidence of a substantial technician workforce entering the registry. Because BCBAs supervise RBTs, this mix suggests that expanding ABA services would depend heavily on recruiting or retaining qualified supervisors. Nine providers carry multiple taxonomies, reinforcing that registry classifications can overlap and should not be interpreted as separate workforce segments.
Demographics and Organizations
Gender data identifies 14 female providers, 2 male providers and no nonbinary providers. The registry reports these as 88%, 13% and 0%, respectively; the percentages reflect the supplied data and do not sum exactly to 100%. No notable organization appears multiple times in the update. Listed locations span Billings, Missoula, Great Falls, Hardin and Kalispell, with additional records across Helena, Bozeman and smaller communities. The provider mix is broader behavioral health, including clinical social workers, counselors, addiction counselors, a speech-language pathologist and case-management organizations, rather than an ABA-focused group.
Montana’s update points to a thin documented ABA supervisory base and a geographically distributed behavioral health workforce, conditions that may constrain ABA access unless BCBA and technician capacity grows.
