ABA Medicaid Rates: Alabama

Name: ABA Medicaid Rates: Alabama — The ABA Index
Creator: The ABA Index

Alabama Medicaid Agency — Applied Behavior Analysis fee schedule

Effective 2026-02-05 LAST CHECKED 2026-08

Code	Service	Rate	Unit
97151	Behavior identification assessment · No prior authorization required	$25.00	15 min
97152	Observation follow-up as assessment · Prior authorization required	$12.50	15 min
97153	Treatment by protocol (technician) · Prior authorization required	$10.00	15 min
97154	Group treatment by protocol	$4.00	15 min
97155	Treatment with protocol modification	$15.00	15 min
97156	Family guidance	$30.00	15 min
97157	Multi-family group guidance	$2.50	15 min
97158	Social skills group	$5.00	15 min
0362T	Supporting assessment	$30.00	15 min
0373T	Treatment with protocol modification (exposure)	$20.00	15 min

Read before using these numbers

Alabama publishes one statewide rate per code with no BCBA, BCaBA or technician tiering and no modifier variants.
At $10.00 per 15 minutes, Alabama pays the lowest published rate for the core direct-therapy code of any state in this dataset.
The schedule sits behind an AMA CPT license acceptance gate on the agency’s fee schedules page, so the document cannot be opened cold from a link — the reader path is the fee schedules page linked above.
medicaid.alabama.gov serves an incomplete TLS certificate chain, which causes fetch errors in some browsers and tools. That is a configuration problem at the agency’s end. Because of it we could not re-read the document a second time from a separate session; the two independent reads behind these figures were taken in one sitting using different extraction methods, and both agreed on all ten codes.

Official sources

Bill from the source, cite us for the map. If this page disagrees with the current official schedule, the schedule wins — and we want to know: