An Indiana autism therapy provider billed Medicaid £600 ($800) per hour for sessions conducted by staff who needed only a high-school diploma to qualify, exploiting a billing loophole so gaping that it generated £22.3 million ($29 million) in taxpayer-funded revenue from just 84 children in a single year.
A Wall Street Journal investigation found that US Medicaid spending on Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA), the most widely prescribed therapy for children with autism, more than tripled from approximately £507 million ($660 million) in 2019 to £1.69 billion ($2.2 billion) in 2023.
