New Hampshire saw a modest addition of 28 behavioral health providers in the latest CMS NPI registry update. Of these, 14 were new this week, contributing a negligible 0% of the national total. This small influx, comprising 21 individual providers and 7 organizations, suggests a contained, rather than expansive, growth spurt in the state's behavioral health sector during this period.
ABA Workforce Dynamics
Focusing on the ABA workforce, the data indicates 2 BCBA credentials and 2 RBT credentials among the new additions. It's important to note that no individuals held dual BCBA and RBT credentials this week. This 1:1 ratio of BCBAs to RBTs is atypical for the ABA field, where a single BCBA typically supervises multiple RBTs. Such a balance in new registrations could imply a very limited expansion of direct service capacity, or that other RBTs are already established and not reflected in this week's new credentialing data.
Provider Demographics
Demographically, individual providers were predominantly female, with 15 female providers accounting for 71%, while 6 male providers made up 29%. No nonbinary providers were registered this week. The data did not identify any organizations appearing multiple times in this update.
Overall, this week's NPI data for New Hampshire reflects a very slow pace of growth in the behavioral health workforce, which may pose challenges for expanding access to ABA and other critical services in the state.
