Foundation
A 90-day operating plan built from your intake capacity, payer mix, and location map - or, for software companies, from pipeline targets and CAC payback - deciding which nodes run first, which wait, and what each is expected to return.
Growing an ABA practice in Pennsylvania is usually a capacity problem that looks like a marketing problem: moderate demand, capped commercial coverage, and clinical pay below the national average. A fractional CMO owns the plan, budget, and vendors - and decides which levers Pennsylvania actually rewards.
Moderate marketMarket data updated April 2026Demand in Pennsylvania is real but uneven across metros (23.5 BCBAs per 100k residents, #16 of 51 for BCBA density). The plan sequences locations and service lines by where capacity and demand overlap, then funds channels in that order.
Coverage is capped at $36,000 per year under Act 62 (2008), so the scoreboard tracks payer mix and authorization limits, not just inquiry volume - a capped commercial client is worth less than the headline rate suggests.
Clinical pay runs below the national average (BCBA ≈ $61,973, RBT ≈ $17.42/hr), with high competition for staff. Recruiting marketing gets its own line in the budget - in most Pennsylvania practices it unlocks more revenue than another family-acquisition channel.
Pennsylvania requires behavior-analyst licensure (State Board of Medicine). The CMO keeps every vendor's messaging - ads, landing pages, review responses - inside licensure, payer, and HIPAA lines, which is where agencies without category fluency get practices into trouble.
The same program we run for ABA providers everywhere, prioritized around the Pennsylvania market above. See the full Fractional CMO service →
A 90-day operating plan built from your intake capacity, payer mix, and location map - or, for software companies, from pipeline targets and CAC payback - deciding which nodes run first, which wait, and what each is expected to return.
Ownership of the marketing budget and every vendor in it: agencies, freelancers, platforms, and in-house hires held to one roadmap and one definition of a qualified inquiry.
A weekly operating cadence with your leadership team - priorities, blockers, hiring and vendor decisions - so marketing moves at the speed of the business, not the retainer calendar.
One scoreboard: pipeline, cost per qualified inquiry, intake or demo conversion, and payer-eligible volume, reported monthly to owners, boards, or investors in language they can act on.
When the problem is ownership, not execution: several vendors, no single plan, and nobody accountable for cost per qualified inquiry. A fractional CMO sets the Pennsylvania roadmap and budget, manages the agencies and in-house team, and reports one scoreboard to owners or investors.
Sequencing. Pennsylvania demand is uneven across metros, so the first 90 days map capacity and demand by location, fix intake conversion, and fund channels in the order the plan needs them.
No. The work runs on a weekly operating cadence with your leadership team over video, plus monthly scoreboard reviews. What matters is category fluency - authorizations, BCBA capacity, payer language, licensure through the State Board of Medicine - not proximity.
Each one reads the same Pennsylvania numbers through a different discipline.
Multi-state groups rarely run one market. The same service, read against nearby Northeast states.
Tell us about your locations, payer mix, and capacity. We'll map what Fractional CMO should do in Pennsylvania first - and what it should leave for later.