Built for Texas ABA practices — and everywhere else you bill

Is every BCBA on your team billable today?

Texas Medicaid treats provider screening as effectively continuous — a fresh check every month, not once a year at credentialing. LapseGuard verifies every clinician on your roster against the OIG exclusion list, state licensure, and the federal NPI registry — plus a guided BACB certification check — then re-checks it monthly and hands you one audit-ready report.

No login to try it. Your first full-roster snapshot is free — Texas or any state you bill in.

Verified against OIG LEIE BACB certification State license boards NPPES NPI registry State Medicaid exclusion lists
Why it matters in Texas, in 2026

In Texas, screening isn't an annual chore. It's effectively continuous.

Texas Medicaid expects providers to be screened against the exclusion lists every month — and the federal penalty attaches on a strict-liability basis. No intent required, no bad actor required.

$25,595 Civil monetary penalty per item or service tied to an excluded provider — plus assessments of up to 3× the amount claimed. Strict liability: you don't have to know. HHS, Federal Register, Jan 2026 (FR 2026-01688)
Monthly How often OIG refreshes the exclusion list — and the cadence Texas Medicaid expects you to screen against it. A clean check in January says nothing about March. OIG SAB; Texas Medicaid provider guidance
$77.8M+ Improper Medicaid ABA payments found in one state's OIG audit — with 100 of 100 sampled months deficient. ABA is in an active audit cycle nationally. HHS-OIG Colorado report, Feb 2026

Not in Texas? The federal penalty schedule and the OIG list are the same everywhere — and New York and California run comparable monthly-screening expectations. We screen rosters in 46 states.

See all the 2026 numbers, with sources →

How it works

Concierge screening. No portal to learn.

You send us your team page or roster. We do the verification by hand and by data — and keep doing it every month.

1

Send us your roster

Your public team page or a simple list — every BCBA, BCaBA, and RBT. No account setup, no software to install.

2

We verify every layer

Each clinician is checked against the NPI registry, OIG & state exclusion lists, BACB certification, and state license — with every name-match disambiguated by hand.

3

You get an audit-ready report

One clean report with a per-row source citation. On monitoring, we re-run it monthly and alert you the moment anything lapses, moves, or appears on a list.

What we check

Four public-record layers, one report.

Most tools check exclusions or licenses. For ABA, the certification layer is the one nobody else covers.

OIG & state exclusion lists

Every clinician screened against the federal LEIE and your state's own Medicaid exclusion list — clearing one doesn't clear the other — with potential name-matches ruled in or out by hand, not flagged blindly.

BACB certification status

A lapsed BCBA / BCaBA / RBT cert makes a clinician unbillable overnight. We give you a one-step checklist to confirm each clinician on the BACB's own public certificant registry, and we structure and date the result in your report — we never bulk-scrape or resell BACB data.

State behavior-analyst license

In Texas, behavior analysts are licensed through TDLR — an LBA that lapses is a billing problem the same day. We check license number, status, and renewal date against your state's board, wherever behavior-analyst licensure applies.

NPI registry & taxonomy

Each NPI confirmed active, correctly typed as a behavior analyst, and matched to your practice location — a common cause of quiet claim denials.

Our own data — not a survey

We checked 241 ABA clinicians against the federal registry. 69 of them didn't match cleanly.

Nobody publishes this, so we built it ourselves: every named clinician on 172 public ABA clinic team pages, run against NPPES and the OIG exclusion list — the same check we'd run on your roster.

241clinicians checked
172clinics
46states
6929% — public-record discrepancy

The roster says one thing. The federal registry says another.

Every one of these is a name where what the clinic publishes and what NPPES holds don't line up. None of them means anyone did anything wrong.

  • 22No locatable behavior-analyst NPI under that name at all.
  • 12NPIs exist under that name — but none in the clinic's state.
  • 35A behavior-analyst NPI exists, registered to a different state than the clinic.
0Actually excluded

Zero of 241 were on the OIG exclusion list.

Nineteen clinicians drew 58 possible exclusion-list name matches between them. We ruled out all 58 by hand, against identifiers — every one was a different person who shared a surname. Not one clinician in this dataset is excluded from federal healthcare programs.

We're stating that plainly because it's the honest read: this is a paperwork problem, not a fraud problem. We'd rather tell you the number is zero than sell you a scare.

148clinicians (61%) came back fully clean — active behavior-analyst NPI, right state, no exclusion.

And 22 more were a category mismatch — listed as a BCBA on the team page, but the NPI taxonomy says psychologist, speech-language pathologist, or marriage & family therapist. Often that's just an older NPI nobody ever updated after certifying.

Which is the whole point. People move states. Names change at marriage. Someone registers an NPI in grad school in Ohio, takes a job in Dallas, and never touches the record again — because nothing forces them to. NPPES has no expiry, no nag email, no consequence for staleness. So it goes stale, quietly, on perfectly good clinicians.

The problem is that an auditor pulling your roster doesn't see "stale." An auditor sees a mismatch — and mismatches are what get claims held while somebody proves a negative.

Don't take our word for any of this. Pull up your own team page, pick three names, and look them up in NPPES — it's free and it takes ten minutes. Most of you will be fine. About a third of you won't like what you see.

Dataset compiled by LapseGuard from public sources, as of 16 July 2026; it grows as we check more practices. Counts are aggregate only — we don't name individuals, and this is not a finding about any clinic or clinician. 148 clean + 69 flagged + 22 category-mismatch = 239; the remaining 2 were names we couldn't parse cleanly enough to check either way. Read the full write-up, including all 58 false exclusion matches → For the external, sourced 2026 compliance figures, see the numbers page.

See exactly what you'd get.

A real, anonymized full-roster report — the same format we'd build for your practice, with a source citation on every line.

View the sample report →
Pricing

Start free. Pay only when it's worth it.

No contract, no portal login, cancel monitoring any time. Secure card payment by Stripe.

Free
First snapshot
  • Your full roster, every layer
  • Real names and per-row sources
  • Delivered within ~2 business days
  • No card, no obligation
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$99
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  • On-demand full-roster report
  • OIG + state exclusions, BACB, license, NPI
  • Audit-ready PDF with citations
  • One-time — screen whenever you hire
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$79/mo
Monthly Monitoring
  • Whole roster re-screened every month
  • Alerts when anything lapses or moves
  • Dated archive that is your audit evidence
  • New hires screened free · up to 20 clinicians
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Not the person who signs off on compliance?

If billing compliance at your practice runs through an owner, clinical director, or office manager, forward this along. The free full-roster snapshot is the fastest way for them to see exactly where the practice stands — no login, no card.

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FAQ

Straight answers.

Are you affiliated with the BACB, OIG, or CMS?

No. LapseGuard is an independent verification service. We read public records those bodies publish; we are not affiliated with, endorsed by, or acting on behalf of the BACB, OIG, CMS, or any state licensing board.

Is this legal advice, or an employment-screening report?

Neither. Our reports are for regulatory-compliance verification only — not for making employment decisions about any individual, and not a substitute for legal advice. We don't make or recommend adverse actions. Any potential exclusion match is flagged as potential and must be confirmed against identifiers before you act on it.

How do you check BACB certification?

You confirm each clinician on the BACB's own public certificant registry — the official, first-party source — using a one-step checklist we provide, and we structure and date it in the report. We never bulk-scrape or resell BACB data, so the certification layer stays fully inside the BACB's terms.

What do you need from us to start?

Just your public team page or a simple roster list. We do the rest. The first full-roster snapshot is free so you can see the quality before paying.

Is screening actually required, or is this a nice-to-have?

Screening is effectively mandatory rather than a single federal rule you can point at. The penalty for billing an item tied to an excluded provider is strict liability — it applies whether or not you knew — and Texas, New York, and California Medicaid each set their own monthly screening expectations on top of that. Practically, that combination means a practice that screens once a year is carrying risk it can't see.

We're not in Texas. Is this still for us?

Yes. The OIG exclusion list, the NPI registry, and the federal penalty schedule are national — only the state-license layer changes. We currently screen rosters across 46 states. Texas is simply where most of our recent work sits.

Can we cancel monitoring?

Any time, from the receipt Stripe sends — no portal, no contract, no cancellation call.

Find out which third you're in — free.

Four quick fields and we'll run your whole roster: OIG exclusions, state license, NPI, plus the guided BACB check. Your first full-roster snapshot lands in about two business days — no login, no card.

No card, no obligation. We use your details only to prepare and send your snapshot.

Got it — your snapshot is on the way.

We'll email your full-roster compliance snapshot to the address you gave, usually within two business days. Questions? Just reply to that email or write ram@getlapseguard.com.