Accepted insurance
Personalized autism therapy delivered where your child is most comfortable. Each service is led by a BCBA who designs a plan around your child's specific goals, from communication and social skills to daily living and emotional regulation.
ABA therapy options for Burlington families
In-school and in-daycare ABA: therapy integrated into your child's daily routine
Virtual ABA therapy: BCBA-coached telehealth sessions from home
Autism evaluations: ADOS-2 diagnostic assessments, coverage verified first
Parent training: twice-monthly Family Guidance sessions with your child's BCBA
Every therapist in Alpaca Health's network is an independent, Board Certified Behavior Analyst who chooses their own caseload and makes their own clinical decisions. No corporate quotas, no rotating staff. Your child builds a long-term relationship with one provider.
Irmelle I. Norvil
North Carolina
- Individualized 1:1 ABA therapy for children ages 2 to 12, in-home and by telehealth
- Hands-on parent training and real-time parent coaching
- Culturally responsive, inclusive care plans
- Hybrid care: in-home sessions paired with secure telehealth
- Skill building across home, school, and community settings
Gretchen Thompson
Accepted insurance
28227
Mint Hill
North Carolina
- Reducing interfering behaviors
- School readiness
- Functional daily living skills
- Community outings
- Social skills
- Assent-based treatment
- Neurodiversity-affirming practices
Danielle Virnelson
Huntersville
North Carolina
- Caregiver training and parent coaching
- Neurodiversity-affirming ABA
- Assent-based clinical practice
- Early intervention
- Functional communication
- Emotional regulation and coping skills
- Daily living and adaptive skills
- School readiness and classroom participation
- Challenging behavior support
- Family-centered treatment planning
Lisa Drumb
North Carolina
- In-home ABA therapy
- Behavioral consulting
- Special education consulting
- Trauma-informed, compassionate care
- Data-driven treatment planning
- Clinical supervision and mentorship
Jessica Grossflam
Huntersville
North Carolina
- Early intervention
- Functional communication training
- Social and play skills
- Naturalistic teaching
- Reducing challenging behaviors
- Parent coaching and support
How ABA therapy works through Alpaca Health
Four simple steps from your first form to your first session. No waitlists, no phone tag, no guesswork.
1
Tell us about your child
Start with our short intake form. You share the basics: your child's age, your availability, your insurance, and any autism diagnosis you already have. That is all we need to understand where your family is starting from.
2
We verify your insurance
After you submit the form, we verify your insurance and follow up within one business day to confirm the details. No long waits, no phone tag.
3
Get matched with the right provider
We match you with a licensed provider who has availability now, not months from now. Prefer someone specific? Tell us, and we will try to make it work. Either way, the fit is built around your child's needs and your family's schedule.
4
Start care the same week
We introduce you directly to your provider, and they take it from there. Most families have their first meeting or assessment within the same week, whether that is in-home ABA therapy or a telehealth session.
We accept most insurance providers and handle verification, prior authorization, and paperwork.
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What our own data shows about ABA care across our network
Every number below comes from the sessions, claims, and prior authorizations that partner clinics ran on Alpaca Health between August 2024 and August 2026, across every state we serve. It describes families served by those clinics, not the US ABA market.
Families who owed nothing
69.5%
Share of families nationally whose settled claims carried no patient responsibility. Medicaid plans usually cover it by design, while commercial plans carry deductibles and copays.
Alpaca Health partner-clinic caseload, Aug 2024 to Aug 2026. 896 families across 77 clinics.
Median owed per hour of therapy, commercial plans
$2.71
Patient responsibility owed per delivered hour for families on commercial plans nationally. About four in ten owed nothing at all. Middle half of families: $0 to $12.18.
Alpaca Health partner-clinic caseload, Aug 2024 to Aug 2026. 448 families across 64 clinics.
Independent practices on Alpaca Health
95
Practices run by clinician owners across the country, together serving about 1,400 children with roughly 148,700 hours of therapy delivered in the window.
Alpaca Health platform records, Aug 2024 to Aug 2026.
Median days to a payer decision
16.4
Days from the moment a partner clinic submits a prior authorization to the moment the payer approves or denies it. Middle half of requests: 10 to 26 days.
Alpaca Health partner-clinic caseload, Aug 2024 to Aug 2026. 1,082 families across 81 clinics.
How prior authorizations ended nationally
- Approved69.3%
- Withdrawn before a decision13.8%
- No authorization was needed9.8%
Share of prior authorization requests by outcome. Outcome groups with too few families behind them are not shown, so these shares do not add to 100. 891 families across 78 clinics.
Where therapy hours were delivered
- At home64.9%
- In a clinic office13.3%
- By telehealth8.9%
- At school7.3%
- Other settings5.6%
Share of delivered therapy hours by the place of service billed on each signed session note. Alpaca Health partner-clinic caseload, Aug 2024 to Aug 2026.
Families who had at least one telehealth session
72.4%
Telehealth is a small share of total hours nationally, and most families used it at least once. It fills gaps around illness and travel rather than replacing in-person work.
Alpaca Health partner-clinic caseload, Aug 2024 to Aug 2026. 783 families across 70 clinics.
These figures describe clients of Alpaca Health partner ABA clinics, on the payers Alpaca Health contracts with. They are not measurements of the US ABA market. A figure appears only when at least 25 families from at least 3 clinics sit behind it.
Start ABA therapy nowLocal programs and organizations that support families alongside ABA therapy.
Local lead agency for North Carolina's Infant-Toddler Program. Provides free evaluations and early intervention services for children birth to age 3 with developmental delays.
Public school district serving families in North Carolina. Coordinates IEPs, classroom accommodations, and special education services for students with autism.
Free 24/7 phone, text, and chat support for anyone in suicidal crisis or emotional distress. Call or text 988.
North Carolina Local Management Entity / Managed Care Organization. Runs the NC Medicaid Tailored Plan and provides a 24/7 behavioral health crisis line for mental health, I/DD, and substance use emergencies.
Why independent clinics matter
In-home ABA that fits your life
- The providers we work with bring therapy to you, wherever your child is most comfortable.
- That might mean home, daycare, school, or virtual sessions. Our flexible care model ensures that therapy integrates into your family’s daily routine, rather than disrupting it.
- Our network is made up of independent, local clinicians who prioritize collaboration, not control, so you stay in charge of your child’s care.
Support for the full pediatric age range
- Many ABA centers stop care when a child turns 8. Not us. We support the full pediatric age range, toddlers to age 21.
- Your child deserves more than short-term support. With Alpaca Health, they can build a long-term relationship with a provider who understands their growth over time and adapts care as their needs evolve.
- We also support your whole family with educational events and resources, including parent webinars, advocacy toolkits, and grant guides.
More care. Less wait.
- Waiting months for ABA shouldn’t be the norm. At Alpaca Health, we help families connect with the right provider in just a few days.
- We work exclusively with independent providers, which allows us to stay flexible and waitlist-free. That means faster assessments, quicker treatment starts, and the end of years-long waits.
- Ready to get started? We’ll handle the paperwork, help coordinate referrals, and walk you through every step.
