Kansas micro-market
Healthcare practice financing in Bel Aire, Kansas
Direct answer
Density decides a lot here. Bel Aire runs 32.8 providers per 10,000 residents, 33 clinicians against 10,066 people, 48 percent of them in physical, occupational, and speech therapy, while Sedgwick County lenders have approved 14 healthcare files worth $3,412,200 and the nearest metro is 8 miles out.
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- Population: 10,066 residents (10K-25K band)1
- Healthcare providers registered here: 33 across 11 fields2
- Median household income: $93,1823
- Largest provider field: Physical, occupational, and speech therapy: 16 registered providers2
- Nearest metro: Wichita, KS, 8 miles1
- Hospital: A Medicare-certified hospital operates in the town4
Bel Aire clinicians, by field
32.8 providers per 10,000 residents is what 33 enumerations across 11 fields works out to in a town of 10,066
| Field | Providers | Per 10,000 residents | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Physical, occupational, and speech therapy | 16 | 15.9 | NPPES [2] |
| Skilled nursing, assisted living, and memory care | 4 | 4.0 | NPPES [2] |
| DME and HME suppliers | 2 | 2.0 | NPPES [2] |
| Chiropractic | 2 | 2.0 | NPPES [2] |
| Primary care and family medicine | 2 | 2.0 | NPPES [2] |
| Ketamine, TMS, and interventional psychiatry | 2 | 2.0 | NPPES [2] |
| Podiatry | 1 | 1.0 | NPPES [2] |
| Home health | 1 | 1.0 | NPPES [2] |
| SUD treatment and residential | 1 | 1.0 | NPPES [2] |
| General dentistry | 1 | 1.0 | NPPES [2] |
| Med spa and aesthetics | 1 | 1.0 | NPPES [2] |
A single Bel Aire practice can hold more than one of these numbers. 48 percent sit in physical, occupational, and speech therapy, counted as clinicians rather than as owners.
What lenders have already approved in Sedgwick County
14 healthcare approvals averaging $243,729 set the deal shape lenders in Sedgwick County have already underwritten
| Line | Amount | Reading and source |
|---|---|---|
| Healthcare files approved | 14 | One published fiscal year, healthcare borrowers only [5] |
| Dollars behind them | $3,412,200 | Approved, not disbursed, and not net of withdrawals [5] |
| Typical approval size | $243,729 | A mean, so one large approval moves it [5] |
| Credit offices operating locally | 329 | Credit intermediation offices sited in the county [6] |
What the two tables above change about a file
Underwriting starts with 32.8 providers per 10,000 residents, because that ratio caps how fast a chair or a room fills. Because Sedgwick County already carries $3,412,200 across 14 healthcare approvals, a request near that average moves faster than one well above it. Household income of $93,182 in Bel Aire is the number a lender uses to sanity check the self-pay share of a revenue projection.
Programs the Bel Aire mix reaches for
- Practice acquisition
- Startup and de novo
- Working capital term loan
- Medical receivables factoring
- Equipment financing and leasing
The 11 fields practicing locally set this order. A funding partner, not this list, decides what is available in Kansas.
What a funder reads first in Bel Aire
physical, occupational, and speech therapy, skilled nursing, assisted living, and memory care, dme and hme suppliers account for most of what is enumerated in Bel Aire, 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 (16) | Visits per case, Referral source concentration, Payer mix and authorization rules | Startup or expansion clinic |
| Skilled nursing, assisted living, and memory care (4) | Census and occupancy, Staffing reporting, Survey history | Working capital |
| DME and HME suppliers (2) | Accreditation and surety bond status, Rental versus sale revenue split, Denial rate and documentation quality | Inventory and rental fleet |
NPPES supplies the Bel Aire counts. The reading columns describe the field in general, and no partner reviewing a Bel Aire file is bound by them.
How Bel Aire prices against its neighbors
Density is the number that moves an appraisal: 32.8 per 10,000 here
| Comparable | People | Enumerations | Per 10,000 residents | Miles |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bel Aire (current) | 10,066 | 33 | 32.8 | |
| Andover | 17,000 | 132 | 77.6 | 9 |
| Derby | 26,604 | 198 | 74.4 | 15 |
| Haysville | 11,406 | 47 | 41.2 | 16 |
| Newton | 18,320 | 224 | 122.3 | 19 |
| El Dorado | 12,694 | 102 | 80.4 | 21 |
| Winfield | 11,678 | 114 | 97.6 | 40 |
What the geography does to a Bel Aire projection
Wichita, KS lies 8 miles from Bel Aire, close enough that appraisers price the lease against Wichita, KS rents while 10,066 residents set the revenue ceiling. Median household income runs $93,182, 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 10,066 resident town: where referrals originate, and what staff cost.
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Questions from Bel Aire
01How many providers practice in Bel Aire, and in what?
Across 11 fields, Bel Aire carries 33 enumerated clinicians, 32.8 per 10,000 of the 10,066 people living here. The concentration is in physical, occupational, and speech therapy, 16 of the total, then skilled nursing, assisted living, and memory care at 4. Count practices from that only with care.
02What does Sedgwick County's shortage designation change?
The primary care, dental, mental health designation HRSA carries on Sedgwick County is a recruiting instrument: it puts repayment incentives in front of candidates, which is how a hiring plan for 10,066 residents gets past the question of who would take the job.
03Is Bel Aire underwritten as part of Wichita, KS?
Partly. Wichita, KS is 8 miles out, so rent and equipment comparables travel in from there while patients still come from the 10,066 residents around Bel Aire. Cost side metro, revenue side local.
04What does SBA lending look like around Bel Aire?
Healthcare borrowers in Sedgwick County took 14 approvals worth $3,412,200 in the published fiscal year, averaging $243,729. That is the comparable set an appraiser near Bel Aire reaches for first.
05How does the hospital in Bel Aire 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 32.8 per 10,000 market.
06Is there local lending capacity in Sedgwick County?
County Business Patterns records 329 credit intermediation establishments in Sedgwick County. That is the local origination bench, and it decides whether a file gets underwritten by somebody who has seen Bel Aire 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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