ABA Accountability Project
The project now includes governance analysis, payer-accountability tools, federal-policy crosswalks, and correspondence with professional bodies. Materials are updated as the public record develops.
The Position Statement
The full statement documenting CASP's governance structure, financial conflicts, accreditation ownership, credentialing inconsistencies, the private equity context, and what independent governance should actually look like. All claims are sourced from CASP's own public materials and peer-reviewed research.
Full Position Statement — Locked Historical Document
Issued March 2026 and preserved as originally published. Endorsements apply to this statement, not automatically to later Project analyses, correspondence, or recommendations.
Addendums
Payers, Medicaid & Program Integrity
These materials move beyond identifying structural problems and ask a practical question: what can payers and public programs require now, using authority they already have, while avoiding blanket requirements that punish ethical providers along with bad actors?
Payer Brief — August 2026
A payer-facing framework for clinical authority, qualifications, ownership/control, supervision, intensity-sensitive oversight, accreditor due diligence, network adequacy, and meaningful outcome review.
Read the Payer Brief →Public Template — Clinician / Provider
A carefully sourced send-your-own letter for clinicians and ABA providers asking plans to review accreditation, clinical governance, qualifications, ownership/control, meaningful outcomes, and network impact.
Download editable letter →Public Template — Family / Member / Citizen
A public-use version that makes the same accountability request without asking the sender to claim clinical expertise or professional experience they may not have.
Download editable letter →Public Template — Boards / Legislatures / Regulators
A source-grounded template for state boards, legislative offices, Medicaid agencies, and regulators addressing representation, accreditation independence, provider qualifications, ownership/control, and direct public oversight.
Download editable letter →Federal Source — August 2026
The federal toolkit informing the Project’s current Medicaid, program-integrity, provider-qualification, ownership, utilization-management, and quality-measurement work.
Open Medicaid.gov →Overview & Media
Shorter documents for those encountering these concerns for the first time, or for sharing with decision-makers who need the argument in a condensed form.
Executive Brief
A concise summary of the core governance concerns for payers, regulators, and professional bodies encountering this project for the first time.
Read & Download →Media Statement
A press-ready summary of the documented concerns, the regulatory context, and the specific questions this project is asking professional bodies and payers to address.
Read & Download →Letters to Professional Bodies
These are dated records of correspondence the Project sent to professional and public bodies. They are preserved as historical documents and are not silently revised as the Project’s analysis develops. Where professional bodies did not provide substantive engagement, the Project is not repeating the same request through updated letter campaigns.
Letter — Sent April 2026
Asks the BACB to formally review how the ABA Practice Guidelines are being used by CASP — specifically whether CASP's documented position on RBT credentialing is consistent with the consumer protection purpose for which those guidelines were developed.
Read & Download →Letter — Historical Correspondence
Asks ABAI to define what responsibility the field's scientific body will assume when commercial entities translate behavior analysis into clinical standards, accreditation requirements, workforce models, and even new ABA ventures — and whether ABAI will distinguish scientific authority from commercial promotion.
Read & Download →Letter — Published May 2026
Asks APBA's board to examine whether the organization's deepening institutional entanglement with CASP is consistent with APBA's founding purpose: giving credentialed individual practitioners a voice independent of the corporate organizations that employ them.
Read & Download →Field Versions — Public-Use Templates
These templates are intended for practitioners, families, and members of the public to use where an outside decision-maker can independently impose safeguards: health plans, Medicaid agencies, boards, legislatures, and regulators. The Project is not asking supporters to send a second round of letters to professional bodies that were already contacted.
All sources cited in the position statement and newer Project work are compiled on the Sources & References page →
Public-Use Letter — Board / Legislature / Regulator
Requests independent review before private standards or accreditation programs acquire regulatory, Medicaid, or network-participation significance.
Download & Send →Public-Use Letter — Payer
Choose the clinician/provider version or the family/member/citizen version from the payer section above.
Go to payer letters →