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Comparison

Raven Health alternative if you keep your own ABA biller

Raven Health offers ABA software at $29 per learner a month on an annual commitment, a managed billing plan at 5% of claims paid, and a custom self-billing plan, all with offline data capture. MegAligna suits agencies that keep their own biller: learners free, staff priced per seat, and per-session exports in the format the biller asks for.

Three ways to pay Raven

Raven publishes three plans, each with no client minimum and offline data capture:

  • Standalone software, $29 per learner a month on an annual commitment, plus a $500 implementation fee. Raven pitches it at small practices with no billing needs.
  • Premium All-in-One, 5% of monthly claims paid, month-to-month, with no software fee and the implementation fee currently waived. Raven bills on your behalf.
  • Self-Billing, priced on request, for practices with an experienced in-house biller. It generates claims from session notes and scheduling data and submits them.

MegAligna has no equivalent of the second plan: nobody here bills for you, and no percentage of collections is taken because collections never pass through this system. Its job is to hand the biller you already have complete, clean charge data: per-session CSV with per-payer NPI and modifier configuration, plus superbill and CMS-1500 data.

What the 5% plan costs as collections grow

The 5% plan costs nothing up front, which is why Raven recommends it to startups. It scales with collections rather than with headcount, so a growing agency pays more each month for the same software as its billing grows. A per-learner bill has the opposite trigger: it rises with every admitted client. Per-seat pricing moves only when the clinical team does, and an outside biller’s login is free.

Three agency shapes against both of Raven’s published plans. The 5% column depends on monthly collections, so they are stated:

AgencyLearnersClinical staffMonthly collectionsRaven $29/learnerRaven 5%MegAligna
Starting out63$18,000$174$900$99
Balanced caseload4530$150,000$1,305$7,500$600
Staff-heavy1025$60,000$290$3,000$500

The $29 column leaves out the $500 implementation fee; spread over the one-year commitment it adds about $42 a month in year one.

The 5% plan is never cheapest at these volumes, but it is the only column that includes a billing service. If it would replace a biller you pay today, compare 5% against that person’s cost, not against software.

The staff-heavy row goes to Raven’s $29 plan, $290 against $500, and will for any agency carrying far more clinicians than learners.

Raven against MegAligna, line by line

Raven's column comes from its pricing and self-billing pages, checked October 14, 2026 (sources at the end of this page). Rows where Raven is ahead are included.

  MegAligna Raven Health per learner or 5%
Data capture with no connection at all, from a cold start 1 No Yes
Billing done for you as a service No Yes
Claims generated and submitted from the product 3 No Yes
Remaining authorization units checked at booking 4 Yes Ask the vendor
Learners free, priced per active staff seat Yes No
Prices shown on the vendor website Yes Partial
  • 1 Raven lists offline capture on every plan. Capture in MegAligna survives a dropped connection within a working day whose roster loaded online, which is narrower.
  • 3 On Raven's Self-Billing plan. Here, claim data is exported for your biller to submit.
  • 4 Raven says it connects authorizations, session tracking and billing in one workflow, but does not describe a check at booking.

If it gets as far as a migration plan, switching from Raven Health covers what the importer accepts, what happens to an authorization mid-period, and the order to cut over in.

Common questions

We use Raven with our own biller today. What changes?
The handoff becomes the product instead of a workaround: your biller gets a free seat, pulls per-session CSV in the format they ask for, and per-payer rendering-NPI and modifier rules are configuration rather than a spreadsheet your biller maintains.
Our technicians work in homes with no signal. Is that a problem?
It can be. Capture survives dropped connections and forced logouts during a day whose schedule loaded online, but a technician who starts the day with no connectivity at all is a case Raven handles better today.
Do authorizations restart if we switch mid-period?
No, they are entered with their remaining balances, so the burn-down picks up from the units already delivered. Reconcile delivered units against your last payer statement before cutover and the history stays audit-consistent.

Hand a test session to a biller seat and look at the export

14 days, no card required. Use made-up patients while you evaluate: real patient information waits until a business associate agreement is in place.

Sources

  1. Raven Health pricing: Standalone $29/learner/month, annual commitment, $500 implementation fee; Premium All-in-One 5% of monthly claims paid, month-to-month, implementation fee waived; Self-Billing custom; no client minimums; offline capture on every plan (checked October 14, 2026)
  2. Raven Health self-billing features: submit claims and generate them from session notes and scheduling data (checked October 14, 2026)