Treatment plans
From assessment scores to a plan a clinical reviewer approves.
ABACare drafts the plan from finalized assessment scores. An authorized clinical reviewer, usually your BCBA, edits it and approves it. The approved goals and targets are what your RBTs collect data on.
The plan ends where the RBT's work starts.
Approved targets reach the capture pad, one tap per trial. This is the product, on a fictional clinic.
Five steps from scores to targets.
In this order. A person finishes each step before the next one starts.
Finalize the assessment
A clinician finalizes the assessment. Its scores become the input to the draft.
Draft the plan
ABACare drafts SMART goals, each with a baseline and mastery criteria. The draft also carries hours by CPT code and medical-necessity text.
Edit
The BCBA changes anything in the draft. If the draft changes after review, the BCBA attests to the current version before approval.
Attest and approve
The reviewer, usually the BCBA, completes the AI attestation and approves the plan. Approval is a person's act. ABACare cannot approve a plan.
Collect data
Approval creates the goals and targets. RBTs collect session data on those targets, and each target is judged against its mastery criterion.
How mastery is judged.
Each target carries a mastery criterion. The default is 80 percent over 3 consecutive sessions. The BCBA can set a different percentage and number of sessions for a target.
A worked example, one goal from scores to a target.
An example with invented figures, to show how the steps connect. It is not a customer result and not a prediction for your clinic.
| Step | What happens | Who |
|---|---|---|
| Assessment | A finalized assessment shows low scores in the communication domain. | Clinician |
| Draft | Goal: the client asks for a preferred item with a spoken word. Baseline: 2 of 10 opportunities. Mastery: 80 percent over 3 consecutive sessions. | ABACare drafts |
| Edit | The BCBA reads recent session data, corrects the baseline and tightens the wording of the goal. | BCBA |
| Approve | The BCBA completes the AI attestation and approves the plan. | BCBA |
| Collect | The goal and its target appear for the RBT. Each session adds trials to the target. | RBT |
What ABACare does today, and what it does not.
- Does: draft goals, baselines, mastery criteria, hours by CPT code and medical-necessity text from finalized assessment scores.
- Does: keep every goal out of the record until an authorized reviewer approves the plan.
- Does: create the goals and targets at approval, ready for RBT data capture.
- Does not: write a plan from a payer's rule pack. The payer framing in a draft is a style, and your BCBA checks it against the payer's requirements.
- Does not: calculate licensed scoring for any instrument. Plans start from the assessment results your clinicians record, listed on the assessments page.
- Does not: approve, sign or send a plan on its own.
Questions about treatment plans.
- Who approves a plan?
- An authorized clinical reviewer, usually the BCBA. The draft waits for an edit, an AI attestation and an approval. No goal exists until the plan is approved.
- What does a draft contain?
- SMART goals with baselines and mastery criteria, hours by CPT code and medical-necessity text.
- Can I change the mastery criterion?
- Yes. The default is 80 percent over 3 consecutive sessions, and a target can carry its own.
- Is the plan written to each payer's rules?
- No. The draft uses a payer-style framing. It is not built from a payer rule pack, so your BCBA checks it against the payer's requirements.
- Can I try this without real client data?
- Yes. The live demo is a fictional clinic: no password and no PHI. Start free opens a sandbox on synthetic data. Self-serve real client data requires a signed BAA and verified active Type-2 organization NPI; production use also follows a separate readiness approval.