The short answer
Should you choose Mallowa or AlohaABA?
They answer different questions. AlohaABA answers "is the practice scheduled, compliant, and getting paid?" Mallowa answers "does the family have one coordinated record across every provider, and is that coordination reimbursed?" They compose cleanly — many teams would use both.
What AlohaABA is best at
Practice operations and getting paid
AlohaABA describes itself as an all-in-one ABA practice management platform with integrated data collection, built by a team that includes BCBAs, ABA billing experts, developers, and parents of children on the spectrum. Its billing module covers the full cycle in-platform — claim submission, pre-submission scrubbing, payment posting, AR tracking, payer-level rules, secondary claims — and its scheduling verifies authorization utilization inside the booking flow with signature, time, and geotag capture. It publishes its pricing openly ($29.99 per staff per month for Practice Management, data collection as a per-client add-on, free 30-day trial) and offers a managed billing service alongside the software.
If your practice needs scheduling, claims, and revenue cycle handled well at a transparent price, that's the job it's built for — Mallowa doesn't compete for it.
What Mallowa is best at
The record the family owns
Mallowa holds one coordinated record across every provider and setting — notes, goals, medications, appointments, crisis plans, files — owned by the family, with per-note visibility and per-member permissions, and it stays with them when providers change. Coordination time captured in Mallowa becomes claim-ready superbills for CMS care-management programs, a different reimbursement lane from the ABA CPT units practice systems process.
Mallowa is not a practice-management system, not an RCM/claims platform, and not a clinical data-collection tool — deliberately.
Common questions
Choosing between them
Is Mallowa an alternative to AlohaABA?
No. AlohaABA is ABA practice-management and billing software — scheduling, claims, payroll, authorizations, accounts receivable. Mallowa does none of that. Mallowa is the family-owned coordination record across every provider, plus CMS care-management reimbursement for the coordination work itself.
What does AlohaABA cost?
AlohaABA publishes its pricing: $29.99 per staff member per month for the Practice Management plan (billing, scheduling, payroll, authorization management, client portal, AR, reporting), with data collection as a per-client add-on and a free 30-day trial (alohaaba.com pricing page, as of July 2026). Mallowa publishes pricing separately for families and providers.
Can a practice run both?
Yes — they answer different questions. AlohaABA answers 'is the practice scheduled, compliant, and getting paid?' Mallowa answers 'does the family have one coordinated record across every provider, and is that coordination reimbursed?' A practice can run AlohaABA for operations while the families it serves use Mallowa to carry the whole picture.
Does Mallowa handle insurance claims and RCM?
No — claim submission, scrubbing, denial management, accounts receivable, and payroll are AlohaABA's domain, and it's built deeply for that work. Mallowa generates claim-ready superbills for CMS care-management programs; it is not a revenue-cycle-management platform.
Last reviewed July 17, 2026. AlohaABA details and pricing are drawn from alohaaba.com's own published pages as of that date; AlohaABA figures are their own reported numbers.