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Looking to see how other BCBAs feel about a situation. Does anyone have any ethical concerns/feedback on this situation.

Clinic is short staffed. BCBA has to run direct.

As a clinical director do you put the BCBA on direct (97153 code) with their own client or a client they’ve never worked with before because the second client’s insurance pays a higher rate for a BCBA running 97153. For context not clients have sessions at the same time and no other BCBA is able to do direct during that session time.