New Mexico recorded 133 providers in the latest CMS NPI registry weekly update, representing 1% of the national weekly total. The registry added 43 new providers this week, bringing the year-to-date count to 48 providers. The state’s activity remains a small share of national growth, but the weekly additions point to continued behavioral health workforce movement across New Mexico.
ABA Workforce Mix
The registry’s credential summary lists 22 BCBA credentials and 25 RBT credentials, including 1 dual credential held by a provider identified as both BCBA and RBT. These categories are not mutually exclusive: credential and taxonomy fields can overlap, and the broader provider total includes social workers, counselors, speech-language pathologists and other professionals. The separate credential-text field lists BCBA 5 entries, illustrating why the fields should not be treated as interchangeable counts. Even with that limitation, the near-even BCBA-RBT pattern suggests New Mexico has a relatively substantial supervisory base alongside its direct-service workforce. Because BCBAs supervise RBTs and oversee treatment planning, that balance may support ABA capacity, though the data does not show caseloads or actual service availability.
Demographics and Provider Activity
The update includes 114 individuals and 19 organizations. Gender data identifies 97 female providers, 14 male providers and 3 nonbinary providers, corresponding to 85%, 12% and 3%. No notable organization appears multiple times in the registry’s notable-organizations field. Provider activity is listed across Albuquerque, Alamogordo, Santa Fe, Las Cruces and Rio Rancho, suggesting ABA and broader behavioral health growth is distributed across several New Mexico markets rather than concentrated in one city.
The combination of new RBT and BCBA activity across urban and smaller markets suggests potential improvement in ABA access, while geographic dispersion may continue to test supervision and workforce retention.
