Alabama micro-market
Healthcare practice financing in Homewood, Alabama
Direct answer
Density decides a lot here. Homewood runs 81.3 providers per 10,000 residents, 227 clinicians against 27,919 people, 29 percent of them in physical, occupational, and speech therapy, while Jefferson County lenders have approved 15 healthcare files worth $6,145,700 and the nearest metro is 5 miles out.
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- Population: 27,919 residents (25K-50K band)1
- Healthcare providers registered here: 227 across 27 fields2
- Median household income: $108,3863
- Largest provider field: Physical, occupational, and speech therapy: 65 registered providers2
- Medicare-certified providers in town: 3 across 3 categories4
- Nearest metro: Birmingham, AL, 5 miles1
Fields practicing inside Homewood
Counted at the town's own addresses: 227 providers, 27 fields, 81.3 clinicians per 10,000 of the 27,919 residents here
| Field | Providers | Per 10,000 residents | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Physical, occupational, and speech therapy | 65 | 23.3 | NPPES [2] |
| Specialty physician groups | 16 | 5.7 | NPPES [2] |
| General dentistry | 14 | 5.0 | NPPES [2] |
| Dental specialties | 14 | 5.0 | NPPES [2] |
| Optometry and ophthalmology | 13 | 4.7 | NPPES [2] |
| Behavioral and mental health group practices | 13 | 4.7 | NPPES [2] |
| DME and HME suppliers | 12 | 4.3 | NPPES [2] |
| Chiropractic | 12 | 4.3 | NPPES [2] |
| Ketamine, TMS, and interventional psychiatry | 10 | 3.6 | NPPES [2] |
| Primary care and family medicine | 8 | 2.9 | NPPES [2] |
| Independent pharmacy | 8 | 2.9 | NPPES [2] |
| Clinical and toxicology labs | 8 | 2.9 | NPPES [2] |
| Home health | 5 | 1.8 | NPPES [2] |
| Imaging centers | 5 | 1.8 | NPPES [2] |
| Non-medical home care | 4 | 1.4 | NPPES [2] |
| Audiology and hearing centers | 3 | 1.1 | NPPES [2] |
| Med spa and aesthetics | 3 | 1.1 | NPPES [2] |
| Podiatry | 2 | 0.7 | NPPES [2] |
| Dermatology | 2 | 0.7 | NPPES [2] |
| Urgent care | 2 | 0.7 | NPPES [2] |
| Telehealth and virtual clinics | 2 | 0.7 | NPPES [2] |
| ASCs and OBLs | 1 | 0.4 | NPPES [2] |
| Sleep centers | 1 | 0.4 | NPPES [2] |
| Mobile diagnostics | 1 | 0.4 | NPPES [2] |
| Hospice and palliative | 1 | 0.4 | NPPES [2] |
| Occupational health and drug testing | 1 | 0.4 | NPPES [2] |
| Skilled nursing, assisted living, and memory care | 1 | 0.4 | NPPES [2] |
| Medical equipment suppliers | 8 | CMS [4] | |
| Ambulatory surgical centers | 1 | CMS [4] | |
| Hospice providers | 1 | CMS [4] | |
| Home health agencies | 1 | CMS [4] |
Physical, occupational, and speech therapy carries 65 of the 227 enumerated providers here, and several of them can sit inside one practice. Read the column as clinicians, not owners.
What Jefferson County credit files already show
Lenders in Jefferson County have already closed 15 healthcare approvals, averaging $409,713, which is the size a new file gets read beside
| What it measures | Value | How to read it |
|---|---|---|
| Approvals on record | 15 | Fiscal year published in the SBA file [5] |
| Total approved capital | $6,145,700 | Sum of approvals to healthcare borrowers [5] |
| Mean deal size | $409,713 | Dollars divided by approvals [5] |
| Lenders sited in the county | 559 | Credit intermediation establishments, NAICS 522 [6] |
How this data lands in an underwriting decision
81.3 per 10,000 is the first number a credit analyst converts into a realistic new-patient count. 15 approvals worth $6,145,700 in Jefferson County means the size you are asking for has a local precedent to point at. With $108,386 as the median household income, the payer mix in a projection has to match what Homewood households actually spend.
Where a file from this town usually lands
- Practice acquisition
- Startup and de novo
- Working capital term loan
- Equipment financing and leasing
- Expansion, relocation, and build-out
The 27 fields practicing locally set this order. A funding partner, not this list, decides what is available in Alabama.
Underwriting by field in Homewood
physical, occupational, and speech therapy, specialty physician groups, general dentistry account for most of what is enumerated in Homewood, so those are the files funders see from this town
| Practice type | The pages that decide it | Typical capital event |
|---|---|---|
| Physical, occupational, and speech therapy (65) | Visits per case, Referral source concentration, Payer mix and authorization rules | Startup or expansion clinic |
| Specialty physician groups (16) | Ancillary revenue contribution, Provider productivity, Payer contracts | Ancillary build-out |
| General dentistry (14) | Three years of collections history, Hygiene as a share of collections, Overhead ratio and owner add-backs | Acquisition of an established practice |
Counts in the first column are Homewood providers from NPPES. The other two columns describe how funders read that field across markets like Homewood, not what any funder will do with your file.
How Homewood prices against its neighbors
Density is the number that moves an appraisal: 81.3 per 10,000 here
| Comparable | People | Enumerations | Per 10,000 residents | Miles |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Homewood (current) | 27,919 | 227 | 81.3 | |
| Vestavia Hills | 38,151 | 194 | 50.9 | 4 |
| Mountain Brook | 21,701 | 10 | 4.6 | 5 |
| Hoover | 93,013 | 722 | 77.6 | 6 |
| Irondale | 13,545 | 96 | 70.9 | 10 |
| Pelham | 25,396 | 416 | 163.8 | 10 |
| Bessemer | 25,079 | 304 | 121.2 | 11 |
What the geography does to a Homewood projection
5 miles separate Homewood from Birmingham, AL. Lease pricing follows Birmingham, AL, while revenue stays capped by the 27,919 residents here. Median household income runs $108,386, which is the number a funder converts into case acceptance on anything elective or cash-pay. No hospital operates here, so the referral sources and the call arrangement have to be named rather than assumed.
Other Alabama markets
- Vestavia Hills 38,151 residents
- Mountain Brook 21,701 residents
- Hoover 93,013 residents
- Irondale 13,545 residents
- Pelham 25,396 residents
- Bessemer 25,079 residents
What owners in Homewood ask
01How many providers practice in Homewood, and in what?
227 enumerations sit at Homewood addresses in the monthly NPPES file, working out to 81.3 for every 10,000 residents. 29 percent of them are physical, occupational, and speech therapy, and specialty physician groups follows with 16. An enumeration is a clinician, so the 227 here cover fewer than 227 practices.
02What does Jefferson County's shortage designation change?
The primary care, dental, mental health designation HRSA carries on Jefferson County is a recruiting instrument: it puts repayment incentives in front of candidates, which is how a hiring plan for 27,919 residents gets past the question of who would take the job.
03Is Homewood underwritten as part of Birmingham, AL?
Partly. Birmingham, AL is 5 miles out, so rent and equipment comparables travel in from there while patients still come from the 27,919 residents around Homewood. Cost side metro, revenue side local.
04What does a $108,386 median income mean for case acceptance?
Median household income in Homewood runs $108,386. On elective and cash-pay work that is the number a funder converts into case acceptance, and it sets how much of a treatment plan a projection can assume gets started rather than deferred.
05What does SBA lending look like around Homewood?
$6,145,700 went to healthcare borrowers in Jefferson County across 15 approvals, $409,713 on average. Deals near Homewood get sized against that record before anything else.
06Is there local lending capacity in Jefferson County?
County Business Patterns records 559 credit intermediation establishments in Jefferson County. That is the local origination bench, and it decides whether a file gets underwritten by somebody who has seen Homewood rents and resale before or by somebody working from a screen.
Sources
- 1U.S. Census Bureau, Population Estimates, vintage 2024
- 2CMS NPPES, monthly full replacement file
- 3U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 5-year 2023, table B19013
- 4CMS Care Compare provider datasets
- 5U.S. Small Business Administration, 7(a) and 504 approvals
- 6U.S. Census Bureau, County Business Patterns 2022
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