The evolution of the behavioral health industry has been spurred on not just by more people wanting care, but the advancement of technologies to better enable access to services.
This is happening as health care moves toward a value-based payment system, which many in the industry feel can be aided by the adoption of new technologies to streamline patient services and business operations.
For Caravel Autism Health CEO Mike Miller, the landscape for autism care can currently be described as “Autism 2.0.” In Miller’s view, Autism 2.0 is being propelled by new technologies and the addition of new board certified behavioral analysts (BCBAs) into the workforce, which are scaling up service delivery in a way unlike the past.
At the inaugural INVEST Conference, which was held in Chicago by Behavioral Health Business on October 14, Miller talked about the progression over the last several years of the autism care market.
“If I think back just five years, it was ‘1.0,’” Miller told INVEST attendees during a panel discussion on trends and opportunities in the autism care sector. “It was a lot of really passionate clinicians that were doing incredible work — and still are doing incredible work — but doing it in a single site with a constraint of fewer BCBAs.”
Since the 2010s, the number of children diagnosed with autism spectrum disability (ASD) has climbed 10%, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Nationwide, 1 in 54 American children have been diagnosed with ASD, with increasing rates driving the growth of a domestic care market valued at $2.1 billion, according to financial data publisher Research and Markets.
By Kyle Coward | November 16, 2021
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