Independent practice calculator
What Could Your Own ABA Practice Look Like?
Independent ABA earnings planner
Your practice, by the numbers.
Choose a location or enter your own rates. Missing published rates never prevent custom planning.
Estimated annual collections
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Estimated monthly collections
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Estimated annual operating profit
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Estimated operating margin
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Enter all three reimbursement rates and correct invalid assumptions to see estimates. Enter 0 explicitly when modeling no reimbursement.
Operating profit is not personal take-home pay. BCBA compensation, including any owner pay you enter, is deducted once. Unentered compensation and costs are excluded.
Revenue, compensation & transparent formulas
- CPT 97153 modeled charges
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- CPT 97155 modeled charges
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- CPT 97156 modeled charges
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- CPT 97153 estimated collections
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- CPT 97155 estimated collections
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- CPT 97156 estimated collections
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- RBT compensation (wages, burden, benefits)
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- BCBA compensation
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- Other annual expenses
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- Separate one-time startup costs
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Direct hours = clients × weekly hours × weeks × (1 − cancellations). Protocol hours = delivered direct hours × protocol % × eligible billable %. Caregiver hours = clients × weekly caregiver hours × weeks × (1 − cancellations). Charges = service hours × rates; collections = charges × collection %. Paid RBT hours = direct billable hours × paid-hours %. RBT costs = paid hours × wage × (1 + burden %) + benefits. Profit = collections − RBT costs − total BCBA compensation − other recurring expenses. Margin = profit ÷ collections.
Educational planning estimates, not financial, tax, coding or clinical advice. Projections depend on payer mix, ZIP code, contracts, credentials, authorizations, staffing, cancellations, collections and overhead. No guaranteed revenue, profitability, referrals or personal earnings. Operating profit is not personal take-home pay; personal taxes, debt service and unentered costs are excluded. Startup costs are separate from recurring expenses. Not all supervision is a reimbursable protocol-modification service; payer rules and actual authorized, delivered, documented services govern billing. Medicaid is not necessarily the lowest-paying payer. Inputs and PDF stay in your browser; only a separate inquiry or rate request is saved.
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Want help building the operations behind these numbers?
The calculator shows the shape of the business. Capri helps you build the credentialing, billing, intake, and administrative systems that make it work.
The Business Behind the Practice
You Build the Practice. We Help Build the Business.
Launching an ABA practice means more than delivering exceptional clinical care. From business formation and payer enrollment to billing, authorizations, staffing, and daily administrative operations, the work behind the scenes can quickly become a full-time responsibility.
The Capri Collective helps independent BCBAs establish and manage the operational infrastructure behind their practices—without giving up ownership of their businesses.
- Business Formation & LLC Filing Assistance
- Practice Startup & Launch
- Credentialing & Payer Enrollment
- Revenue Cycle Management
- Intake & Authorizations
- Administrative & HR Infrastructure
- Practice Management Technology Implementation
Clinical & Operational Excellence
From clinical leadership development to supervision workflows, quality assurance, and RBT onboarding, Capri can help you establish the clinical infrastructure behind a growing practice.
Explore Clinical & Operational Excellence →Capri can assist with preparing and submitting LLC formation filings where legally permitted and authorized. Capri does not provide legal advice or guarantee state approval. Services are scoped independently; no prices or cost savings are assumed.