Colorado micro-market
Healthcare practice financing in Firestone, Colorado
Direct answer
A Firestone file is read against 104 local clinicians, 53.6 for every 10,000 of its 19,396 residents, 47 percent of them in physical, occupational, and speech therapy, plus the 12 SBA healthcare approvals worth $13,283,100 already recorded in Weld County, 18 miles from Boulder, CO.
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- Population: 19,396 residents (10K-25K band)1
- Healthcare providers registered here: 104 across 13 fields2
- Median household income: $114,5913
- Largest provider field: Physical, occupational, and speech therapy: 49 registered providers2
- Medicare-certified providers in town: 1 across 1 categories4
- Nearest metro: Boulder, CO, 18 miles1
Fields practicing inside Firestone
104 providers across 13 fields, 53.6 per 10,000 residents, counted at Firestone addresses in the NPPES monthly file
| Practice type | Count | Rate per 10,000 residents | Published by |
|---|---|---|---|
| Physical, occupational, and speech therapy | 49 | 25.3 | NPPES [2] |
| General dentistry | 15 | 7.7 | NPPES [2] |
| Primary care and family medicine | 10 | 5.2 | NPPES [2] |
| Optometry and ophthalmology | 7 | 3.6 | NPPES [2] |
| Chiropractic | 5 | 2.6 | NPPES [2] |
| Independent pharmacy | 4 | 2.1 | NPPES [2] |
| DME and HME suppliers | 3 | 1.5 | NPPES [2] |
| Home health | 3 | 1.5 | NPPES [2] |
| Dental specialties | 3 | 1.5 | NPPES [2] |
| ABA and autism therapy | 2 | 1.0 | NPPES [2] |
| Hormone, TRT, and men's health clinics | 1 | 0.5 | NPPES [2] |
| Behavioral and mental health group practices | 1 | 0.5 | NPPES [2] |
| Clinical and toxicology labs | 1 | 0.5 | NPPES [2] |
| Medical equipment suppliers | 4 | CMS [4] | |
| Home health agencies | 1 | CMS [4] |
A single Firestone practice can hold more than one of these numbers. 47 percent sit in physical, occupational, and speech therapy, counted as clinicians rather than as owners.
What Weld County credit files already show
Lenders in Weld County have already closed 12 healthcare approvals, averaging $1,106,925, which is the size a new file gets read beside
| Line | Amount | Reading and source |
|---|---|---|
| Healthcare files approved | 12 | Fiscal year published in the SBA file [5] |
| Dollars behind them | $13,283,100 | Sum of approvals to healthcare borrowers [5] |
| Typical approval size | $1,106,925 | Dollars divided by approvals [5] |
| Credit offices operating locally | 120 | Credit intermediation establishments, NAICS 522 [6] |
What the two tables above change about a file
The ratio that matters up front is 53.6 per 10,000, which decides whether a ramp schedule reads as conservative. A request measured against 12 prior Weld County approvals is priced on precedent, which shortens the questions about valuation. Household income of $114,591 in Firestone is the number a lender uses to sanity check the self-pay share of a revenue projection.
Programs the Firestone mix reaches for
- Practice acquisition
- Startup and de novo
- Working capital term loan
- Expansion, relocation, and build-out
- Equipment financing and leasing
The 13 fields practicing locally set this order. A funding partner, not this list, decides what is available in Colorado.
What a funder reads first in Firestone
Drawn from the fields that actually practice here: physical, occupational, and speech therapy, general dentistry, primary care and family medicine
| Field | What the file turns on | The capital event behind most requests |
|---|---|---|
| Physical, occupational, and speech therapy (49) | Visits per case, Referral source concentration, Payer mix and authorization rules | Startup or expansion clinic |
| General dentistry (15) | Three years of collections history, Hygiene as a share of collections, Overhead ratio and owner add-backs | Acquisition of an established practice |
| Primary care and family medicine (10) | Panel size, Value-based contract exposure, Provider productivity | Acquisition |
NPPES supplies the Firestone counts. The reading columns describe the field in general, and no partner reviewing a Firestone file is bound by them.
Firestone against nearby Colorado markets
Comparables travel. These are the Colorado towns whose density, at 53.6 per 10,000 here, gets weighed beside this one.
| Comparable | People | Enumerations | Per 10,000 residents | Miles |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Firestone (current) | 19,396 | 104 | 53.6 | |
| Frederick | 17,937 | 57 | 31.8 | 4 |
| Longmont | 99,818 | 1,231 | 123.3 | 8 |
| Berthoud | 13,648 | 55 | 40.3 | 9 |
| Erie | 38,594 | 184 | 47.7 | 9 |
| Johnstown | 20,639 | 97 | 47.0 | 11 |
| Lafayette | 30,587 | 649 | 212.2 | 14 |
What the geography does to a Firestone projection
Boulder, CO lies 18 miles from Firestone, close enough that appraisers price the lease against Boulder, CO rents while 19,396 residents set the revenue ceiling. Households here carry $114,591 in median income, and that ceiling decides how much of a treatment plan gets started rather than deferred. No hospital operates here, so the referral sources and the call arrangement have to be named rather than assumed.
Other Colorado markets
Firestone owners, answered
01How many providers practice in Firestone, and in what?
Across 13 fields, Firestone carries 104 enumerated clinicians, 53.6 per 10,000 of the 19,396 people living here. The concentration is in physical, occupational, and speech therapy, 49 of the total, then general dentistry at 15. Count practices from that only with care.
02Is Firestone underwritten as part of Boulder, CO?
Comparables and demand split at 18 miles. An appraiser prices the lease and the equipment off Boulder, CO; the revenue line has to hold up against 19,396 local residents.
03What does a $114,591 median income mean for case acceptance?
Median household income in Firestone runs $114,591. 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.
04What does SBA lending look like around Firestone?
$13,283,100 went to healthcare borrowers in Weld County across 12 approvals, $1,106,925 on average. Deals near Firestone get sized against that record before anything else.
05What does Weld County's shortage designation change?
Weld County holds a HRSA designation covering primary care, dental, mental health. A pro forma for Firestone can cite it as the reason a vacancy is fillable, which is usually the weakest line in a ramp schedule.
06Which fields carry the volume in Firestone?
The 13 enumerated fields are led by physical, occupational, and speech therapy at 49, with general dentistry at 15 behind it. Those two counts double as the competition you are entering and the bench you would hire from.
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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