School-Contracted ABA (NPA)

School-Contracted ABA NPAs

The MSO built for
California ABA NPAs.

ABA carries the heaviest labor stack in special education — RBTs supervised by BCaBAs supervised by BCBAs — and the most complex revenue mix: school ISAs alongside insurance and Regional Center funding. We separate the payers, defend the margins, and keep the supervision math audit-ready.

BCBA / BCaBA / RBT supervision tracking Multi-payer separation (ISA / insurance / RC) AB 5 defensibility file
The ABA NPA Problem

Dual-payer reality breaks single-payer bookkeeping.

School ISAs, insurance authorizations, and Regional Center funding don’t reconcile the same way. Generic CPAs collapse them into one revenue line and lose the margin signal.

Payer mix hides margin

School-ISA, insurance, and Regional Center units carry very different effective rates. Without payer-mix margin analysis, the profitable contracts subsidize the losers — silently.

Supervision ratios are cost ratios

BCBA, BCaBA, RBT labor stacks dictate the billable-to-non-billable ratio. The wrong ratio kills net income before anyone notices.

Authorization variance leaks revenue

Authorized units vs. delivered units rarely match. Weekly variance tracking is the only way to catch under-delivery and over-delivery before quarter-end.

ABA NPA Packages

Three tiers built for ABA’s labor stack and payer mix.

Locked 12-month retainers. Pricing reflects the additional complexity of dual-payer billing and supervision-tier labor tracking.

Feature
Foundation
$1,950/mo
Onboarding $2,000
1 BCBA + small RBT team · school-only
Growth
$3,950/mo
Onboarding $3,500
Multi-BCBA · school + insurance / RC
CFO
$7,500/mo
Onboarding $6,000
Multi-site · multi-payer · PE / scale track
Bookkeeping & monthly close
Accrual
Accrual + multi-entity
Multi-payer revenue separation
Basic split
Managed
Managed + payer-mix margin analysis
RBT / BCaBA / BCBA labor-cost & supervision tracking
+ billable-ratio optimization
Payroll + heavy 1099 / W-2 classification
Setup + run
Run + risk review
Full + AB 5 defensibility file
ISA AR + insurance / RC AR reconciliation
Review
Managed
Managed + denial recovery
CDE renewal financials
Reminder
Prepared
Prepared + filed support
Authorization-units vs. delivered-units variance
Monthly
Weekly dashboard
Cash-flow forecast
13-week
13-week + scenario
Cost-segregation / clinic buildout planning
LEA + payer audit support
Prep docs
Full representation
Advisory cadence
Quarterly
Monthly
Bi-weekly + board pack
À La Carte

Flat-fee project work — layer onto any tier.

The events that don’t fit a monthly retainer, priced upfront.

CDE NPA certification application (new)
$3,500
CDE renewal package + financial statements
$1,500
AB 5 / worker-classification audit file
$2,500
Onsite-monitoring / SELPA audit representation
$3,500
Entity formation + S-corp election
$2,500
Fractional CFO sprint (90-day, scale / M&A prep)
$9,500

Plus QuickBooks NPA setup, reasonable comp study, LEA Master Contract / ISA rate review, and annual budget models — see the full menu on the Pricing page.

How We Operate

Three positioning guardrails — every engagement, every tier.

ABA NPAs operate at the intersection of clinical credentialing and dual-payer billing. Here is how we separate scope cleanly.

1

Administrative scope only

The MSO does not own, direct, or share clinical fees. We deliver financial, payroll, billing-oversight, and compliance-calendar services — never clinical or supervision decisions.

2

The CDE certification is yours

Certification belongs to the NPA, not to us. We prepare the renewal financials and meet the Oct 31 deadline — but the NPA owns the CDE relationship.

3

The ISA is the revenue atom

We reconcile delivered service units against ISA-authorized units, and against insurance / RC authorizations, catching revenue leakage at the source — where IEP-specified frequency and duration are defined.

Senior CPA partner working with healthcare practice owners
Partner-led
Built for practice owners

You work with a senior partner. Always.

Healthcare practice owners need a CPA who actually understands the practice — not a generalist running through a checklist. Every engagement is partner-led from discovery through ongoing advisory.

That is why our discovery calls run 30 minutes (not 15). It is why we cap our practice at the number of owners a senior partner can directly know. And it is why our client retention runs 4–7 years per practice.

100%
Partner-led discovery
24h
Response window
4–7yr
Avg. client tenure
Ready to Talk

An MSO partner that respects the supervision stack.

A 30-minute conversation with a senior CPA partner. We will walk through your payer mix, supervision ratios, and which tier matches where your ABA NPA is today.

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