Alabama micro-market
Healthcare practice financing in Prichard, Alabama
Direct answer
15 healthcare providers hold a Prichard practice address, 8.0 per 10,000 of its 18,778 residents, 27 percent of them in behavioral and mental health group practices. Mobile County recorded 5 SBA healthcare approvals worth $737,800, and Mobile, AL sits 7 miles out.
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- Population: 18,778 residents (10K-25K band)1
- Healthcare providers registered here: 15 across 9 fields2
- Median household income: $35,3313
- Largest provider field: Behavioral and mental health group practices: 4 registered providers2
- Nearest metro: Mobile, AL, 7 miles1
- SBA healthcare approvals in the county: 5 approvals totaling $737,8004
Fields practicing inside Prichard
15 providers across 9 fields, 8.0 per 10,000 residents, counted at Prichard addresses in the NPPES monthly file
| Practice type | Count | Rate per 10,000 residents | Published by |
|---|---|---|---|
| Behavioral and mental health group practices | 4 | 2.1 | NPPES [2] |
| General dentistry | 3 | 1.6 | NPPES [2] |
| DME and HME suppliers | 2 | 1.1 | NPPES [2] |
| Home health | 1 | 0.5 | NPPES [2] |
| Primary care and family medicine | 1 | 0.5 | NPPES [2] |
| Non-medical home care | 1 | 0.5 | NPPES [2] |
| Specialty physician groups | 1 | 0.5 | NPPES [2] |
| Clinical and toxicology labs | 1 | 0.5 | NPPES [2] |
| Skilled nursing, assisted living, and memory care | 1 | 0.5 | NPPES [2] |
| Medical equipment suppliers | 1 | CMS [5] |
Behavioral and mental health group practices carries 4 of the 15 enumerated providers here, and several of them can sit inside one practice. Read the column as clinicians, not owners.
Loan activity in Mobile County
5 healthcare approvals sit in the county file, so an appraiser here works from a short comparable set
| What it measures | Value | How to read it |
|---|---|---|
| Approvals on record | 5 | Fiscal year published in the SBA file [4] |
| Total approved capital | $737,800 | Sum of approvals to healthcare borrowers [4] |
| Mean deal size | $147,560 | Dollars divided by approvals [4] |
| Lenders sited in the county | 311 | Credit intermediation establishments, NAICS 522 [6] |
How this data lands in an underwriting decision
8.0 per 10,000 is the first number a credit analyst converts into a realistic new-patient count. With 5 approvals on record in Mobile County, expect a longer appraisal and a wider collateral discount. Household income of $35,331 in Prichard is the number a lender uses to sanity check the self-pay share of a revenue projection.
Where a file from this town usually lands
- Practice acquisition
- Working capital term loan
- Equipment financing and leasing
- Startup and de novo
- Expansion, relocation, and build-out
Ranked from the 9 fields that actually practice in Prichard, weighted toward behavioral and mental health group practices. Availability still depends on Alabama and on the funding partner.
What a funder reads first in Prichard
Drawn from the fields that actually practice here: behavioral and mental health group practices, general dentistry, dme and hme suppliers
| Field | What the file turns on | The capital event behind most requests |
|---|---|---|
| Behavioral and mental health group practices (4) | Clinician retention and productivity, Payer mix and Medicaid concentration, Re-authorization and session limit exposure | Working capital through the credentialing lag |
| General dentistry (3) | Three years of collections history, Hygiene as a share of collections, Overhead ratio and owner add-backs | Acquisition of an established practice |
| DME and HME suppliers (2) | Accreditation and surety bond status, Rental versus sale revenue split, Denial rate and documentation quality | Inventory and rental fleet |
Column one counts Prichard clinicians from the federal file. Columns two and three describe how the field is usually underwritten, and a partner can read a Prichard file differently.
How Prichard prices against its neighbors
Comparables travel. These are the Alabama towns whose density, at 8.0 per 10,000 here, gets weighed beside this one.
| Town | Residents | Providers | Per 10,000 | Miles away |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Prichard (current) | 18,778 | 15 | 8.0 | |
| Saraland | 16,458 | 101 | 61.4 | 6 |
| Spanish Fort | 11,118 | 107 | 96.2 | 16 |
| Daphne | 30,751 | 380 | 123.6 | 18 |
| Fairhope | 26,044 | 355 | 136.3 | 23 |
| Foley | 28,043 | 297 | 105.9 | 38 |
| Gulf Shores | 17,431 | 108 | 62.0 | 43 |
What the geography does to a Prichard projection
7 miles separate Prichard from Mobile, AL. Lease pricing follows Mobile, AL, while revenue stays capped by the 18,778 residents here. Median household income runs $35,331, which is the number a funder converts into case acceptance on anything elective or cash-pay. Referral flow comes from outside Prichard, which a projection needs to state plainly.
Other Alabama markets
- Saraland 16,458 residents
- Spanish Fort 11,118 residents
- Daphne 30,751 residents
- Fairhope 26,044 residents
- Foley 28,043 residents
- Gulf Shores 17,431 residents
What owners in Prichard ask
01How many providers practice in Prichard, and in what?
Across 9 fields, Prichard carries 15 enumerated clinicians, 8.0 per 10,000 of the 18,778 people living here. The concentration is in behavioral and mental health group practices, 4 of the total, then general dentistry at 3. Count practices from that only with care.
02What does Mobile County's shortage designation change?
The primary care, dental, mental health designation HRSA carries on Mobile County is a recruiting instrument: it puts repayment incentives in front of candidates, which is how a hiring plan for 18,778 residents gets past the question of who would take the job.
03Why does Mobile County show so little SBA activity?
Only 5 healthcare approvals appear for Mobile County in the published 7(a) and 504 file. Thin volume in Mobile County is a transaction count, not a verdict on borrowers here. The county still holds 311 credit intermediation establishments.
04Is Prichard underwritten as part of Mobile, AL?
Comparables and demand split at 7 miles. An appraiser prices the lease and the equipment off Mobile, AL; the revenue line has to hold up against 18,778 local residents.
05Is there local lending capacity in Mobile County?
County Business Patterns records 311 credit intermediation establishments in Mobile County. That is the local origination bench, and it decides whether a file gets underwritten by somebody who has seen Prichard rents and resale before or by somebody working from a screen.
06What does a $35,331 median income mean for case acceptance?
Median household income in Prichard runs $35,331. 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.
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
- 4U.S. Small Business Administration, 7(a) and 504 approvals
- 5CMS Care Compare provider datasets
- 6U.S. Census Bureau, County Business Patterns 2022
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