Applied Behavior Analysis
Please visit our Autism Care Demonstration page. You can also visit www.health.mil/autism.
You can update your address, phone number or fax number by submitting a completed TRICARE Provider Roster.
You must submit a completed TRICARE Provider Roster.
It can take Health Net Federal Services up to 60 days to credential a network applied behavior analysis (ABA) provider (Board Certified Behavior Analyst® [BCBA®], BCBA-Doctoral® [BCBA-D®], Board Certified Assistant Behavior Analyst® [BCaBA®], Qualified Autism Service Practitioner-Supervisor [QASP-S®], licensed behavior analyst [LBA], or licensed assistant behavior analyst [LABA]) based on the accuracy of the information provided.
Behavior technicians (BT) are certified instead of credentialed. It can take up to 10 days to certify new BTs.
It can take up to 30 days to process a non-network provider application.
Behavior technicians who have an active national or state certification may begin seeing patients as of their certification date submitted on the group roster as long as the group has an executed network agreement by that date.
We recommend providers check XPressClaim before submitting claims.
For applied behavior analysis (ABA) provider speciality changes (for example, Registered Behavior Technicians® [RBT®] to Board Certified Assistant Behavior Analyst® [BCaBA®] or BCaBA to Board Certified Behavior Analyst® [BCBA®]), you must submit a completed TRICARE Provider Roster.
No. Board Certified Behavior Analysts® (BCBA®), Board Certified Assistant Behavior Analysts® (BCaBA®), BCBA-Doctorals® (BCBA-D®), and licensed behavior analysts (LBA) do not require a Medicare number.
Behavior technicians (BT) are subject to a certification process in order to participate as a provider in the Autism Care Demonstration. Learn more on our ABA Provider Types page.
Individual BTs will not display in the TRICARE West Region Network Provider Directory and are not available to check their status online.
