Florida micro-market
Healthcare practice financing in Palmetto Bay, Florida
Direct answer
25,402 residents, 326 enumerated clinicians, 128.3 per 10,000, 24 percent of them in aba and autism therapy: that is the Palmetto Bay market a funder prices. Miami-Dade County adds 170 healthcare approvals worth $80,200,800 and 13 miles of distance to Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach, FL.
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- Population: 25,402 residents (25K-50K band)1
- Healthcare providers registered here: 326 across 25 fields2
- Median household income: $143,3683
- Largest provider field: ABA and autism therapy: 77 registered providers2
- Medicare-certified providers in town: 2 across 1 categories4
- Nearest metro: Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach, FL, 13 miles1
Fields practicing inside Palmetto Bay
326 providers across 25 fields, 128.3 per 10,000 residents, counted at Palmetto Bay addresses in the NPPES monthly file
| Practice type | Count | Rate per 10,000 residents | Published by |
|---|---|---|---|
| ABA and autism therapy | 77 | 30.3 | NPPES [2] |
| Physical, occupational, and speech therapy | 56 | 22.0 | NPPES [2] |
| Primary care and family medicine | 39 | 15.4 | NPPES [2] |
| Home health | 23 | 9.1 | NPPES [2] |
| Specialty physician groups | 22 | 8.7 | NPPES [2] |
| DME and HME suppliers | 21 | 8.3 | NPPES [2] |
| General dentistry | 12 | 4.7 | NPPES [2] |
| Chiropractic | 10 | 3.9 | NPPES [2] |
| Skilled nursing, assisted living, and memory care | 9 | 3.5 | NPPES [2] |
| Dental specialties | 8 | 3.1 | NPPES [2] |
| Med spa and aesthetics | 7 | 2.8 | NPPES [2] |
| Independent pharmacy | 6 | 2.4 | NPPES [2] |
| Non-medical home care | 6 | 2.4 | NPPES [2] |
| Ketamine, TMS, and interventional psychiatry | 6 | 2.4 | NPPES [2] |
| Behavioral and mental health group practices | 6 | 2.4 | NPPES [2] |
| Clinical and toxicology labs | 4 | 1.6 | NPPES [2] |
| Optometry and ophthalmology | 3 | 1.2 | NPPES [2] |
| Occupational health and drug testing | 3 | 1.2 | NPPES [2] |
| Dialysis and infusion centers | 2 | 0.8 | NPPES [2] |
| Dermatology | 1 | 0.4 | NPPES [2] |
| ASCs and OBLs | 1 | 0.4 | NPPES [2] |
| Imaging centers | 1 | 0.4 | NPPES [2] |
| Pain management and interventional | 1 | 0.4 | NPPES [2] |
| Audiology and hearing centers | 1 | 0.4 | NPPES [2] |
| Hospice and palliative | 1 | 0.4 | NPPES [2] |
| Home health agencies | 2 | CMS [4] | |
| Medical equipment suppliers | 1 | CMS [4] |
A single Palmetto Bay practice can hold more than one of these numbers. 24 percent sit in aba and autism therapy, counted as clinicians rather than as owners.
The lending record behind Palmetto Bay
The published file shows 170 healthcare approvals in Miami-Dade County, $80,200,800 in total, and that history is what an appraiser and a credit committee reach for
| Line | Amount | Reading and source |
|---|---|---|
| Healthcare files approved | 170 | Fiscal year published in the SBA file [5] |
| Dollars behind them | $80,200,800 | Sum of approvals to healthcare borrowers [5] |
| Typical approval size | $471,769 | Dollars divided by approvals [5] |
| Credit offices operating locally | 1,755 | Credit intermediation establishments, NAICS 522 [6] |
How this data lands in an underwriting decision
Underwriting starts with 128.3 providers per 10,000 residents, because that ratio caps how fast a chair or a room fills. Because Miami-Dade County already carries $80,200,800 across 170 healthcare approvals, a request near that average moves faster than one well above it. With $143,368 as the median household income, the payer mix in a projection has to match what Palmetto Bay households actually spend.
Programs the Palmetto Bay mix reaches for
- Practice acquisition
- Working capital term loan
- Expansion, relocation, and build-out
- Medical receivables factoring
- Startup and de novo
The order comes from Palmetto Bay's own provider mix, which aba and autism therapy dominates at 24 percent. What a partner can actually place in Florida is a separate question.
Underwriting by field in Palmetto Bay
Drawn from the fields that actually practice here: aba and autism therapy, physical, occupational, and speech therapy, primary care and family medicine
| Practice type | The pages that decide it | Typical capital event |
|---|---|---|
| ABA and autism therapy (77) | Authorized hours against delivered hours, Payer mix stability, Billing compliance history | Working capital against authorization and billing lag |
| Physical, occupational, and speech therapy (56) | Visits per case, Referral source concentration, Payer mix and authorization rules | Startup or expansion clinic |
| Primary care and family medicine (39) | Panel size, Value-based contract exposure, Provider productivity | Acquisition |
Counts in the first column are Palmetto Bay providers from NPPES. The other two columns describe how funders read that field across markets like Palmetto Bay, not what any funder will do with your file.
How Palmetto Bay prices against its neighbors
Set Palmetto Bay's 128.3 per 10,000 against the towns an appraiser would reach for next
| Comparable | People | Enumerations | Per 10,000 residents | Miles |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Palmetto Bay (current) | 25,402 | 326 | 128.3 | |
| Cutler Bay | 45,833 | 597 | 130.3 | 3 |
| Pinecrest | 18,981 | 150 | 79.0 | 3 |
| Coral Gables | 50,379 | 1,604 | 318.4 | 6 |
| South Miami | 13,207 | 681 | 515.6 | 6 |
| Key Biscayne | 15,111 | 47 | 31.1 | 11 |
| Sweetwater | 21,321 | 52 | 24.4 | 12 |
Distance, income, and the wage floor around Palmetto Bay
Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach, FL lies 13 miles from Palmetto Bay, close enough that appraisers price the lease against Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach, FL rents while 25,402 residents set the revenue ceiling. Households here carry $143,368 in median income, and that ceiling decides how much of a treatment plan gets started rather than deferred. With no hospital in town, a projection has to name where referrals and coverage come from.
Other Florida markets
- Cutler Bay 45,833 residents
- Pinecrest 18,981 residents
- Coral Gables 50,379 residents
- South Miami 13,207 residents
- Key Biscayne 15,111 residents
- Sweetwater 21,321 residents
Questions from Palmetto Bay
01How many providers practice in Palmetto Bay, and in what?
NPPES lists 326 providers at a Palmetto Bay practice address, 128.3 per 10,000 residents across 25 tracked fields. ABA and autism therapy accounts for 77 of them, 24 percent of the total, with physical, occupational, and speech therapy next at 56. Read that as clinicians: 326 enumerations, not 326 owners.
02What does SBA lending look like around Palmetto Bay?
The county file behind Palmetto Bay holds 170 healthcare approvals totaling $80,200,800, an average of $471,769. Those are the loan sizes lenders in Miami-Dade County have already carried.
03What does Miami-Dade County's shortage designation change?
The primary care, dental, mental health designation HRSA carries on Miami-Dade County is a recruiting instrument: it puts repayment incentives in front of candidates, which is how a hiring plan for 25,402 residents gets past the question of who would take the job.
04Is Palmetto Bay underwritten as part of Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach, FL?
Partly. Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach, FL is 13 miles out, so rent and equipment comparables travel in from there while patients still come from the 25,402 residents around Palmetto Bay. Cost side metro, revenue side local.
05What does a $143,368 median income mean for case acceptance?
Median household income in Palmetto Bay runs $143,368. 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.
06Is there local lending capacity in Miami-Dade County?
County Business Patterns records 1,755 credit intermediation establishments in Miami-Dade County. That is the local origination bench, and it decides whether a file gets underwritten by somebody who has seen Palmetto Bay 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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