MOABA is an organization founded to support and promote scientific research on basic principles of behavior and the effective and ethical application of those principles.
The 2018 Annual Meeting is scheduled for November 16 & 17 at the Sheraton Westport in St. Louis.
Hotel: We have reserved a block of rooms at the Sheraton for a discounted rate of $95/night. To make a reservation, please click here.
The following is a preliminary schedule of speakers (times are subject to change; click on the presentation title for more information):
Friday, November 16, 2018
9:00 a.m. Joseph Lambert – Vanderbilt University
Trial-based FAs are Baseline During Intensive Intervention in School Settings (1 hr BACB type 2 CE)
10:00 a.m. Matthew Broadhead – Michigan State University
Advancements in Activity Schedule Research in Supporting Independent and Social Play Behaviors in Children with ASD (1 hr BACB type 2 CE)
11:15 a.m. Caio Miguel – California State University, Sacramento
The Generalization of Mands (1 hr BACB type 2 CE)
1:00 p.m. MOABA Business Meeting
1:30 p.m. Neil Deochand – University of Cincinnati
Making Music Contingent on Punching Performance (1 hr BACB type 2 CE)
2:30 p.m. Julie Slowiak – University of Minnesota Duluth
Adding Value to OBM with ACT: Creating a Synergistic Powerhouse for Health and Wellbeing (1 hr BACB type 2 CE)
4:00 p.m. Poster Session
To submit a poster, click here. Questions? Email moabastudentrep@gmail.com.
Saturday, November 17, 2018
Track 1
9:00 a.m. Kathleen Bailey-Stengel – Aveanna Healthcare, Travis Blevins – BSOTR, & Jason Simmons – CBA
ABA Business Bootcamp (3.5 hrs BACB type 2 CEs – supervision)
1:30 p.m. Matthew Broadhead – Michigan State University
A Behavioral Systems Approach to Ethics Training and Supervision (4 hrs BACB type 2 CEs – ethics)
Track 2
9:00 a.m. Joseph Lambert – Vanderbilt University
Function-Based Frameworks for Addressing Multiply Controlled Challenging Behavior (3.5 hrs BACB type 2 CEs)
1:30 p.m. Carl Binder – The Performance Thinking Network, LLC
Introduction to Six Boxes Performance Thinking – An Accomplishment Based Approach (3.5 hrs BACB type 2 CEs)
News
Here's a great example of disseminating behavior analysis through social media. See you @ the conference The Daily BA!There’s ONE aba provider that has backed this channel. They push me to be better. They see the future and they want to be leaders in this progressive movement. Check them out Clinical Behavior Analysis or "CBA" and #cbacares. I’ll see y’all at Missouri Association for Behavior Analysis! Just booked my flight 👊👊👊
From the BACB re:CPT codes in ABA:
Dear colleague,
As you may know, the American Medical Association (AMA) has approved eight new Category I and two revised Category III CPT® codes to report applied behavior analysis (ABA) services (termed “adaptive behavior assessment and treatment services”) to health insurance plans. Those codes take effect January 1, 2019. The new codes resulted from a code change application submitted to the AMA CPT Editorial Panel in 2017 by the Steering Committee for a national workgroup comprising representatives of the Association for Behavior Analysis International (ABAI), Association of Professional Behavior Analysts (APBA), Autism Speaks, Behavior Analyst Certification Board (BACB), CPT consultants, providers, and representatives of some health plans. In preparing the code change application, the Steering Committee collected extensive information about utilization of the Category III CPT code set that has been used for reporting ABA services since 2014. We also sought input from other stakeholder societies.
To help payers and providers achieve consistency in utilization and implementation of the new codes, we have prepared the attached coding conversion crosswalk. It indicates the most common HCPCS and 2014 Category III CPT codes that have been or are being used by payers to report ABA services, and cross references those older codes to the 2019 Category I and III CPT codes. The crosswalk is organized by the essential elements of ABA services: assessment and reassessment, treatment plan development and revision, direct treatment of individual clients, direction of technicians by a professional behavior analyst or other qualified healthcare professional (QHP), family or caregiver training, and group treatment. For each new code, the crosswalk also indicates which personnel must attend each service in order to bill for that service as well as applicable time increments.
We hope this information will foster an understanding of how the 2019 CPT codes are intended to be reported and encourage uniform reporting of ABA services across providers, payers, and states. If you have comments or questions or need additional information, please contact our CPT coding consultant Jenna Minton, Esq. at mintonhealthcarestrategies@gmail.com.
Sincerely,
Travis Thompson, Association for Behavior Analysis International
Gina Green, Association of Professional Behavior Analysts
James E. Carr, Behavior Analyst Certification Board
Lorri Unumb, Autism Speaks
Jenna W. Minton, Minton Healthcare Strategies (CPT Consultant)
www.bacb.com/wp-content/uploads/CPT_Codes_Crosswalk_.pdf
bacb.com
Association of Professional Behavior Analysts
ALERT - Health insurance providers and billers: APBA will offer webinars on the new CPT codes for billing ABA services on September 12 and 19, 5:30 - 7:30 pm Eastern time (same content both times). The featured presenter will be Jenna Minton, healthcare attorney and consultant to the team that has been working on ABA CPT codes since 2015. She will review the new codes (which will be published in the American Medical Association 2019 CPT book on August 30 and go into effect January 1), how they are to be used, and resources the project team has developed to help providers and payers work with them. Fees will be just $20 for APBA members, $32 for non-members. That includes two BACB CEUs. Watch www.apbahome.net, this page, and email for information about registering for one of the webinars. And if you're not yet a member, click "Join Now" on the website and complete the membership application so you're sure to get the members' discount on this and future APBA webinars as well as the other terrific benefits!Participate in a survey related to licensure:
You are invited to participate in a study entitled, “Behavior Analysts’ Attitudes Toward and Perceptions of Certification versus Licensure in Applied Behavior Analysis” conducted by Brian Conners, Ed.S., BCBA, Frank Cicero, Ph.D., BCBA, and Shawn Capell, M.S., BCBA from Seton Hall University. We are currently recruiting participants that hold a credential as a Board Certified Behavior Analyst or Board Certified Assistant Behavior Analyst through the Behavior Analyst Certification Board to participate in this survey. As someone who holds this credential, you are being asked to complete this online survey consisting of 27 questions that will ask you some basic demographic information, as well as questions regarding your thoughts on licensure and certification in the field of Applied Behavior Analysis.
Your participation in this online survey through Qualtrics, an online survey tool, is completely voluntary and you will in no way be penalized for not participating or not fully completing the survey. Your survey responses are completely anonymous. The survey will take 8-10 minutes to complete. All data collected will be downloaded and encrypted to a USB memory stick and locked away in the principal investigator’s office at Seton Hall University in order to ensure confidentiality of all data obtained as part of this study.
If you agree to participate in this study and wish to be directed to the online survey, please click here: shucehs.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_9oYksVISxc9UEa9
Thank you in advance for your time and consideration!
Sincerely,
Brian Conners, Ed.S., BCBA
Principal Investigator
Faculty Associate, ABA Program
Seton Hall University
College of Education and Human Services
Department of Educational Studies
Jubilee Hall Rm. 431
400 South Orange Avenue
South Orange, NJ 07079
(973) 275-2357
brian.conners@shu.edu
Online Survey | Built with Qualtrics Experience Management™
shucehs.co1.qualtrics.com
Qualtrics makes sophisticated research simple and empowers users to capture customer, product, brand & employee experience insights in one place.This will be a trying time for all of us as we work through this upcoming change as an ABA Insurance billing community. Let’s work together to utilize the resources provided to us to navigate these changes. In my humble opinion, I feel we should be cautious about providing first brush advice on our interpretation of the codes and/or how they will be utilized by the various insurance funding sources. Each of us will need to do our due diligence to study, learn, communicate and discuss these changes.
Below are the resources provided to us thus far. I would encourage everyone to attend one or more of these presentations. I would also recommend that you spend time preparing for this change by creating a tracking document of your current contracts with the present codes and fee schedules, to include your provider rep contact information. While you’re at it, if you have not already done so, review your contracts and add to your tracker key information from your contracts that will help you in your business. Such as, credentialing timelines/requirements, provider types allowed and credentialed, authorization requirements, timely filing for claims and appeals deadlines, timely payment on clean claims, execution and renewal dates, and what plans are covered if applicable (eg HMO, PPO, etc.).
Blog: www.ababilling.net/blog/10-things-you-must-pay-attention-to-in-your-insurance-contracts-other-tha...
If you have not already done so, establish your internal fee schedule for the value of your services. Know what sets you apart as an ABA provider in your area or the value that you bring to the ABA community to use in your conversations with your provider reps. When the codes are released, begin conversations with your provider reps on contract negotiations. Expect that this will be a process as each insurance funding source develops their own internal protocol for the changes. Be patient, try not to give up and get frustrated, hang in there! Learn from our past experience with the CPT3 codes and be prepared that some of the information may be interpreted differently by insurance plans and also be prepared that the codes may not answer all of our questions and if so, what will the alternative be for your practice to be successful during this transition.
1. Mass ABA presentation in person 9/7/18:
www.massaba.net/events/massaba-behavior-analysis-ce-event-2/
2. BHCOE webinar 9/7/18:
zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_XOm_6Lh2T1isLvkBB8MDBA
3. APBA webinars 9/12/18 and 9/19/18 (become a Member if you have not already done so and take advantage of the emails that are sent from APBA):
www.apbahome.net/default.aspx
4. Autism Law Summit in person 10/4/18 – 10/7/18 (attend annually and take advantage of continued resources from Autism Speaks):
www.autismlawsummit.com/
5. Codebooks can be purchased at the AMA store:
commerce.ama-assn.org/store/catalog/productDetail.jsp?product_id=prod2870013&navAction=push
Jason Simmons is the Executive Director of Clinical Behavior Analysis or "CBA". Jason will be one of our featured panelist in our ABA Business Bootcamp in November.
The Daily BA
#Ad SHARE YOUR STORIES USING #CBACares & submit YOUR video for part two here: goo.gl/forms/zm0aGtqn3OYY3cBE2
Check out Clinical Behavior Analysis or "CBA" - they hire only the *best* - I'll be seeing them in Missouri ABA later this year too btw, so holler if you're going to be there! www.cbacares.com/
Registration for our conference on Nov. 16 & 17 is up! We've tried our best to streamline the registration process.
moaba2018.brownpapertickets.com/
moaba2018.brownpapertickets.com
Registration & membership for the 2018 conferenceMOABA is an organization founded to support and promote scientific research on basic principles of behavior and the effective and ethical application of those principles.
The 2018 Annual Meeting is scheduled for November 16 & 17 at the Sheraton Westport in St. Louis.
Hotel: We have reserved a block of rooms at the Sheraton for a discounted rate of $95/night. To make a reservation, please click here.
The following is a preliminary schedule of speakers (times are subject to change; click on the presentation title for more information):
Friday, November 16, 2018
9:00 a.m. Joseph Lambert – Vanderbilt University
Trial-based FAs are Baseline During Intensive Intervention in School Settings (1 hr BACB type 2 CE)
10:00 a.m. Matthew Broadhead – Michigan State University
Advancements in Activity Schedule Research in Supporting Independent and Social Play Behaviors in Children with ASD (1 hr BACB type 2 CE)
11:15 a.m. Caio Miguel – California State University, Sacramento
The Generalization of Mands (1 hr BACB type 2 CE)
1:00 p.m. MOABA Business Meeting
1:30 p.m. Neil Deochand – University of Cincinnati
Making Music Contingent on Punching Performance (1 hr BACB type 2 CE)
2:30 p.m. Julie Slowiak – University of Minnesota Duluth
Adding Value to OBM with ACT: Creating a Synergistic Powerhouse for Health and Wellbeing (1 hr BACB type 2 CE)
4:00 p.m. Poster Session
To submit a poster, click here. Questions? Email moabastudentrep@gmail.com.
Saturday, November 17, 2018
Track 1
9:00 a.m. Kathleen Bailey-Stengel – Aveanna Healthcare, Travis Blevins – BSOTR, & Jason Simmons – CBA
ABA Business Bootcamp (3.5 hrs BACB type 2 CEs – supervision)
1:30 p.m. Matthew Broadhead – Michigan State University
A Behavioral Systems Approach to Ethics Training and Supervision (4 hrs BACB type 2 CEs – ethics)
Track 2
9:00 a.m. Joseph Lambert – Vanderbilt University
Function-Based Frameworks for Addressing Multiply Controlled Challenging Behavior (3.5 hrs BACB type 2 CEs)
1:30 p.m. Carl Binder – The Performance Thinking Network, LLC
Introduction to Six Boxes Performance Thinking – An Accomplishment Based Approach (3.5 hrs BACB type 2 CEs)
News
Here's a great example of disseminating behavior analysis through social media. See you @ the conference The Daily BA!There’s ONE aba provider that has backed this channel. They push me to be better. They see the future and they want to be leaders in this progressive movement. Check them out Clinical Behavior Analysis or "CBA" and #cbacares. I’ll see y’all at Missouri Association for Behavior Analysis! Just booked my flight 👊👊👊
From the BACB re:CPT codes in ABA:
Dear colleague,
As you may know, the American Medical Association (AMA) has approved eight new Category I and two revised Category III CPT® codes to report applied behavior analysis (ABA) services (termed “adaptive behavior assessment and treatment services”) to health insurance plans. Those codes take effect January 1, 2019. The new codes resulted from a code change application submitted to the AMA CPT Editorial Panel in 2017 by the Steering Committee for a national workgroup comprising representatives of the Association for Behavior Analysis International (ABAI), Association of Professional Behavior Analysts (APBA), Autism Speaks, Behavior Analyst Certification Board (BACB), CPT consultants, providers, and representatives of some health plans. In preparing the code change application, the Steering Committee collected extensive information about utilization of the Category III CPT code set that has been used for reporting ABA services since 2014. We also sought input from other stakeholder societies.
To help payers and providers achieve consistency in utilization and implementation of the new codes, we have prepared the attached coding conversion crosswalk. It indicates the most common HCPCS and 2014 Category III CPT codes that have been or are being used by payers to report ABA services, and cross references those older codes to the 2019 Category I and III CPT codes. The crosswalk is organized by the essential elements of ABA services: assessment and reassessment, treatment plan development and revision, direct treatment of individual clients, direction of technicians by a professional behavior analyst or other qualified healthcare professional (QHP), family or caregiver training, and group treatment. For each new code, the crosswalk also indicates which personnel must attend each service in order to bill for that service as well as applicable time increments.
We hope this information will foster an understanding of how the 2019 CPT codes are intended to be reported and encourage uniform reporting of ABA services across providers, payers, and states. If you have comments or questions or need additional information, please contact our CPT coding consultant Jenna Minton, Esq. at mintonhealthcarestrategies@gmail.com.
Sincerely,
Travis Thompson, Association for Behavior Analysis International
Gina Green, Association of Professional Behavior Analysts
James E. Carr, Behavior Analyst Certification Board
Lorri Unumb, Autism Speaks
Jenna W. Minton, Minton Healthcare Strategies (CPT Consultant)
www.bacb.com/wp-content/uploads/CPT_Codes_Crosswalk_.pdf
bacb.com
Association of Professional Behavior Analysts
ALERT - Health insurance providers and billers: APBA will offer webinars on the new CPT codes for billing ABA services on September 12 and 19, 5:30 - 7:30 pm Eastern time (same content both times). The featured presenter will be Jenna Minton, healthcare attorney and consultant to the team that has been working on ABA CPT codes since 2015. She will review the new codes (which will be published in the American Medical Association 2019 CPT book on August 30 and go into effect January 1), how they are to be used, and resources the project team has developed to help providers and payers work with them. Fees will be just $20 for APBA members, $32 for non-members. That includes two BACB CEUs. Watch www.apbahome.net, this page, and email for information about registering for one of the webinars. And if you're not yet a member, click "Join Now" on the website and complete the membership application so you're sure to get the members' discount on this and future APBA webinars as well as the other terrific benefits!Participate in a survey related to licensure:
You are invited to participate in a study entitled, “Behavior Analysts’ Attitudes Toward and Perceptions of Certification versus Licensure in Applied Behavior Analysis” conducted by Brian Conners, Ed.S., BCBA, Frank Cicero, Ph.D., BCBA, and Shawn Capell, M.S., BCBA from Seton Hall University. We are currently recruiting participants that hold a credential as a Board Certified Behavior Analyst or Board Certified Assistant Behavior Analyst through the Behavior Analyst Certification Board to participate in this survey. As someone who holds this credential, you are being asked to complete this online survey consisting of 27 questions that will ask you some basic demographic information, as well as questions regarding your thoughts on licensure and certification in the field of Applied Behavior Analysis.
Your participation in this online survey through Qualtrics, an online survey tool, is completely voluntary and you will in no way be penalized for not participating or not fully completing the survey. Your survey responses are completely anonymous. The survey will take 8-10 minutes to complete. All data collected will be downloaded and encrypted to a USB memory stick and locked away in the principal investigator’s office at Seton Hall University in order to ensure confidentiality of all data obtained as part of this study.
If you agree to participate in this study and wish to be directed to the online survey, please click here: shucehs.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_9oYksVISxc9UEa9
Thank you in advance for your time and consideration!
Sincerely,
Brian Conners, Ed.S., BCBA
Principal Investigator
Faculty Associate, ABA Program
Seton Hall University
College of Education and Human Services
Department of Educational Studies
Jubilee Hall Rm. 431
400 South Orange Avenue
South Orange, NJ 07079
(973) 275-2357
brian.conners@shu.edu
Online Survey | Built with Qualtrics Experience Management™
shucehs.co1.qualtrics.com
Qualtrics makes sophisticated research simple and empowers users to capture customer, product, brand & employee experience insights in one place.This will be a trying time for all of us as we work through this upcoming change as an ABA Insurance billing community. Let’s work together to utilize the resources provided to us to navigate these changes. In my humble opinion, I feel we should be cautious about providing first brush advice on our interpretation of the codes and/or how they will be utilized by the various insurance funding sources. Each of us will need to do our due diligence to study, learn, communicate and discuss these changes.
Below are the resources provided to us thus far. I would encourage everyone to attend one or more of these presentations. I would also recommend that you spend time preparing for this change by creating a tracking document of your current contracts with the present codes and fee schedules, to include your provider rep contact information. While you’re at it, if you have not already done so, review your contracts and add to your tracker key information from your contracts that will help you in your business. Such as, credentialing timelines/requirements, provider types allowed and credentialed, authorization requirements, timely filing for claims and appeals deadlines, timely payment on clean claims, execution and renewal dates, and what plans are covered if applicable (eg HMO, PPO, etc.).
Blog: www.ababilling.net/blog/10-things-you-must-pay-attention-to-in-your-insurance-contracts-other-tha...
If you have not already done so, establish your internal fee schedule for the value of your services. Know what sets you apart as an ABA provider in your area or the value that you bring to the ABA community to use in your conversations with your provider reps. When the codes are released, begin conversations with your provider reps on contract negotiations. Expect that this will be a process as each insurance funding source develops their own internal protocol for the changes. Be patient, try not to give up and get frustrated, hang in there! Learn from our past experience with the CPT3 codes and be prepared that some of the information may be interpreted differently by insurance plans and also be prepared that the codes may not answer all of our questions and if so, what will the alternative be for your practice to be successful during this transition.
1. Mass ABA presentation in person 9/7/18:
www.massaba.net/events/massaba-behavior-analysis-ce-event-2/
2. BHCOE webinar 9/7/18:
zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_XOm_6Lh2T1isLvkBB8MDBA
3. APBA webinars 9/12/18 and 9/19/18 (become a Member if you have not already done so and take advantage of the emails that are sent from APBA):
www.apbahome.net/default.aspx
4. Autism Law Summit in person 10/4/18 – 10/7/18 (attend annually and take advantage of continued resources from Autism Speaks):
www.autismlawsummit.com/
5. Codebooks can be purchased at the AMA store:
commerce.ama-assn.org/store/catalog/productDetail.jsp?product_id=prod2870013&navAction=push
Jason Simmons is the Executive Director of Clinical Behavior Analysis or "CBA". Jason will be one of our featured panelist in our ABA Business Bootcamp in November.
The Daily BA
#Ad SHARE YOUR STORIES USING #CBACares & submit YOUR video for part two here: goo.gl/forms/zm0aGtqn3OYY3cBE2
Check out Clinical Behavior Analysis or "CBA" - they hire only the *best* - I'll be seeing them in Missouri ABA later this year too btw, so holler if you're going to be there! www.cbacares.com/
Registration for our conference on Nov. 16 & 17 is up! We've tried our best to streamline the registration process.
moaba2018.brownpapertickets.com/
moaba2018.brownpapertickets.com
Registration & membership for the 2018 conference