Clinical Practice & Supervision

You can hit 5%, log two contacts a month, and pass any audit. You can also hand the field a newly certified analyst who can't run a preference assessment or correct a technician without apologizing or steamrolling. Compliance measures attendance, not ability. Here's what the BACB actually requires for RBTs, BCaBAs, and fieldwork trainees, what changes on January 1, 2027, and the one supervision failure almost nobody talks about: we never teach supervisees how to give feedback

The contractor vs. employee question sounds simple — until you're operating in ABA or behavioral health. Once clinical supervision requirements, Medicaid contracts, and state licensing laws enter the picture, generic HR guidance stops being enough. Getting classification wrong in this field doesn't just create a tax headache. It can affect audits, credentialing, licensure, and more. Here's what agencies consistently get wrong — and what actually matters.