Idaho micro-market
Healthcare practice financing in Mountain Home, Idaho
Direct answer
Density decides a lot here. Mountain Home runs 57.9 providers per 10,000 residents, 98 clinicians against 16,912 people, 39 percent of them in physical, occupational, and speech therapy, while Elmore County lenders have approved 0 healthcare files worth $0 and the nearest metro is 42 miles out.
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- Population: 16,912 residents (10K-25K band)1
- Healthcare providers registered here: 98 across 12 fields2
- Median household income: $58,4863
- Largest provider field: Physical, occupational, and speech therapy: 38 registered providers2
- Nearest metro: Boise City, ID, 42 miles1
- Hospital: A Medicare-certified hospital operates in the town4
What NPPES records at Mountain Home addresses
The NPPES file puts 98 enumerated clinicians inside Mountain Home, spread over 12 fields at 57.9 per 10,000 residents
| Specialty | Enumerated clinicians | Density per 10,000 | Where it comes from |
|---|---|---|---|
| Physical, occupational, and speech therapy | 38 | 22.5 | NPPES [2] |
| Primary care and family medicine | 14 | 8.3 | NPPES [2] |
| General dentistry | 14 | 8.3 | NPPES [2] |
| Optometry and ophthalmology | 8 | 4.7 | NPPES [2] |
| Chiropractic | 5 | 3.0 | NPPES [2] |
| Independent pharmacy | 4 | 2.4 | NPPES [2] |
| Specialty physician groups | 4 | 2.4 | NPPES [2] |
| Behavioral and mental health group practices | 4 | 2.4 | NPPES [2] |
| Skilled nursing, assisted living, and memory care | 3 | 1.8 | NPPES [2] |
| NEMT and ambulance | 2 | 1.2 | NPPES [2] |
| DME and HME suppliers | 1 | 0.6 | NPPES [2] |
| Dental specialties | 1 | 0.6 | NPPES [2] |
| Medical equipment suppliers | 4 | CMS [4] |
A single Mountain Home practice can hold more than one of these numbers. 39 percent sit in physical, occupational, and speech therapy, counted as clinicians rather than as owners.
Elmore County approvals, dollars, and lending establishments
The county file holds 0 healthcare approvals, which is a thin comparable set for anyone pricing collateral
| Line | Amount | Reading and source |
|---|---|---|
| Approvals on record | 0 | One published fiscal year, healthcare borrowers only [5] |
| Total approved capital | $0 | Approved, not disbursed, and not net of withdrawals [5] |
| Mean deal size | No approvals recorded | A mean, so one large approval moves it [5] |
| Lenders sited in the county | 17 | Credit intermediation offices sited in the county [6] |
Reading Mountain Home the way a credit committee does
Density of 57.9 per 10,000 sets the patient draw a projection can claim without an argument. With 0 approvals on record in Elmore County, expect a longer appraisal and a wider collateral discount. Household income of $58,486 in Mountain Home is the number a lender uses to sanity check the self-pay share of a revenue projection.
Programs the Mountain Home mix reaches for
- Practice acquisition
- Startup and de novo
- Working capital term loan
- Expansion, relocation, and build-out
- Equipment financing and leasing
The 12 fields practicing locally set this order. A funding partner, not this list, decides what is available in Idaho.
What a funder reads first in Mountain Home
physical, occupational, and speech therapy, primary care and family medicine, general dentistry account for most of what is enumerated in Mountain Home, 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 (38) | Visits per case, Referral source concentration, Payer mix and authorization rules | Startup or expansion clinic |
| Primary care and family medicine (14) | Panel size, Value-based contract exposure, Provider productivity | Acquisition |
| 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 Mountain Home providers from NPPES. The other two columns describe how funders read that field across markets like Mountain Home, not what any funder will do with your file.
Mountain Home against nearby Idaho markets
57.9 per 10,000 is the figure a neighboring town gets compared against when an appraiser prices Mountain Home
| Town | Residents | Providers | Per 10,000 | Miles away |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mountain Home (current) | 16,912 | 98 | 57.9 | |
| Kuna | 29,127 | 86 | 29.5 | 45 |
| Eagle | 33,451 | 372 | 111.2 | 53 |
| Star | 18,208 | 61 | 33.5 | 56 |
| Caldwell | 73,088 | 342 | 46.8 | 60 |
| Middleton | 11,730 | 57 | 48.6 | 61 |
| Jerome | 13,481 | 95 | 70.5 | 66 |
What the geography does to a Mountain Home projection
42 miles separate Mountain Home from Boise City, ID. Rent comparables cross that gap; patients mostly do not. Median household income runs $58,486, which is the number a funder converts into case acceptance on anything elective or cash-pay. The hospital fixes two inputs a lender would otherwise estimate in a 16,912 resident town: where referrals originate, and what staff cost. Mountain Home is the Elmore County seat, so county employment steadies the payer mix.
Other Idaho markets
Questions from Mountain Home
01How many providers practice in Mountain Home, and in what?
Across 12 fields, Mountain Home carries 98 enumerated clinicians, 57.9 per 10,000 of the 16,912 people living here. The concentration is in physical, occupational, and speech therapy, 38 of the total, then primary care and family medicine at 14. Count practices from that only with care.
02Why does Elmore County show so little SBA activity?
The published file records 0 7(a) and 504 approvals to healthcare borrowers in Elmore County. That tracks how few Elmore County practices changed hands that year, not credit quality. 17 credit intermediation establishments operate in Elmore County, so the lending capacity is local even where the healthcare history is not.
03Is Mountain Home underwritten as part of Boise City, ID?
Comparables and demand split at 42 miles. An appraiser prices the lease and the equipment off Boise City, ID; the revenue line has to hold up against 16,912 local residents.
04What does Elmore County's shortage designation change?
The primary care, dental, mental health designation HRSA carries on Elmore County is a recruiting instrument: it puts repayment incentives in front of candidates, which is how a hiring plan for 16,912 residents gets past the question of who would take the job.
05How does the hospital in Mountain Home affect a practice file?
It makes the staffing and referral lines checkable. and the hospital sets the wage a clinical hire is bid against in a 57.9 per 10,000 market.
06What does a $58,486 median income mean for case acceptance?
Median household income in Mountain Home runs $58,486. 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
- 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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