Louisiana micro-market
Healthcare practice financing in Baker, Louisiana
Direct answer
Density decides a lot here. Baker runs 83.1 providers per 10,000 residents, 101 clinicians against 12,147 people, 14 percent of them in behavioral and mental health group practices, while East Baton Rouge County lenders have approved 12 healthcare files worth $1,932,500 and the nearest metro is 10 miles out.
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- Population: 12,147 residents (10K-25K band)1
- Healthcare providers registered here: 101 across 20 fields2
- Median household income: $59,4513
- Largest provider field: Behavioral and mental health group practices: 14 registered providers2
- Medicare-certified providers in town: 1 across 1 categories4
- Nearest metro: Baton Rouge, LA, 10 miles1
Who is enumerated in Baker
83.1 providers per 10,000 residents is what 101 enumerations across 20 fields works out to in a town of 12,147
| Field | Providers | Per 10,000 residents | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Behavioral and mental health group practices | 14 | 11.5 | NPPES [2] |
| Physical, occupational, and speech therapy | 13 | 10.7 | NPPES [2] |
| Specialty physician groups | 12 | 9.9 | NPPES [2] |
| Home health | 10 | 8.2 | NPPES [2] |
| Non-medical home care | 10 | 8.2 | NPPES [2] |
| General dentistry | 7 | 5.8 | NPPES [2] |
| DME and HME suppliers | 6 | 4.9 | NPPES [2] |
| Independent pharmacy | 4 | 3.3 | NPPES [2] |
| Optometry and ophthalmology | 4 | 3.3 | NPPES [2] |
| Telehealth and virtual clinics | 4 | 3.3 | NPPES [2] |
| Chiropractic | 3 | 2.5 | NPPES [2] |
| ABA and autism therapy | 3 | 2.5 | NPPES [2] |
| Primary care and family medicine | 2 | 1.6 | NPPES [2] |
| Med spa and aesthetics | 2 | 1.6 | NPPES [2] |
| Skilled nursing, assisted living, and memory care | 2 | 1.6 | NPPES [2] |
| Urgent care | 1 | 0.8 | NPPES [2] |
| SUD treatment and residential | 1 | 0.8 | NPPES [2] |
| Dental specialties | 1 | 0.8 | NPPES [2] |
| Clinical and toxicology labs | 1 | 0.8 | NPPES [2] |
| Dialysis and infusion centers | 1 | 0.8 | NPPES [2] |
| Medical equipment suppliers | 3 | CMS [4] | |
| Dialysis facilities | 1 | CMS [4] |
Behavioral and mental health group practices carries 14 of the 101 enumerated providers here, and several of them can sit inside one practice. Read the column as clinicians, not owners.
What lenders have already approved in East Baton Rouge County
The published file shows 12 healthcare approvals in East Baton Rouge County, $1,932,500 in total, and that history is what an appraiser and a credit committee reach for
| What it measures | Value | How to read it |
|---|---|---|
| Healthcare files approved | 12 | One published fiscal year, healthcare borrowers only [5] |
| Dollars behind them | $1,932,500 | Approved, not disbursed, and not net of withdrawals [5] |
| Typical approval size | $161,042 | A mean, so one large approval moves it [5] |
| Credit offices operating locally | 336 | Credit intermediation offices sited in the county [6] |
What the two tables above change about a file
A file from here opens on 83.1 providers per 10,000 residents, and everything about volume follows from it. 12 approvals worth $1,932,500 in East Baton Rouge County means the size you are asking for has a local precedent to point at. A $59,451 median household income here sets the ceiling on what an elective or cash-pay line can be expected to carry.
Where a file from this town usually lands
- Practice acquisition
- Working capital term loan
- Medical receivables factoring
- Expansion, relocation, and build-out
- Startup and de novo
Weighted by how often each of the 20 local fields reaches for a program, not by what is easiest to refer. Louisiana rules and the partner decide availability.
The first pages of a Baker file
behavioral and mental health group practices, physical, occupational, and speech therapy, specialty physician groups account for most of what is enumerated in Baker, so those are the files funders see from this town
| Practice type | The pages that decide it | Typical capital event |
|---|---|---|
| Behavioral and mental health group practices (14) | Clinician retention and productivity, Payer mix and Medicaid concentration, Re-authorization and session limit exposure | Working capital through the credentialing lag |
| Physical, occupational, and speech therapy (13) | Visits per case, Referral source concentration, Payer mix and authorization rules | Startup or expansion clinic |
| Specialty physician groups (12) | Ancillary revenue contribution, Provider productivity, Payer contracts | Ancillary build-out |
NPPES supplies the Baker counts. The reading columns describe the field in general, and no partner reviewing a Baker file is bound by them.
Density beside the neighboring Louisiana towns
Set Baker's 83.1 per 10,000 against the towns an appraiser would reach for next
| Market | Population | Clinicians | Density per 10,000 | Distance in miles |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Baker (current) | 12,147 | 101 | 83.1 | |
| Zachary | 20,370 | 295 | 144.8 | 6 |
| Gonzales | 13,837 | 322 | 232.7 | 29 |
| Hammond | 23,426 | 632 | 269.8 | 42 |
| Opelousas | 15,176 | 288 | 189.8 | 55 |
| Broussard | 15,312 | 101 | 66.0 | 56 |
| Carencro | 12,883 | 97 | 75.3 | 56 |
Distance, income, and the wage floor around Baker
Baton Rouge, LA lies 10 miles from Baker, close enough that appraisers price the lease against Baton Rouge, LA rents while 12,147 residents set the revenue ceiling. At $59,451 median household income, the elective and cash-pay share of a projection is the line that gets tested first. With no hospital in town, a projection has to name where referrals and coverage come from.
More of Louisiana
What owners in Baker ask
01How many providers practice in Baker, and in what?
101 enumerations sit at Baker addresses in the monthly NPPES file, working out to 83.1 for every 10,000 residents. 14 percent of them are behavioral and mental health group practices, and physical, occupational, and speech therapy follows with 13. An enumeration is a clinician, so the 101 here cover fewer than 101 practices.
02What does East Baton Rouge County's shortage designation change?
The primary care, dental, mental health designation HRSA carries on East Baton Rouge County is a recruiting instrument: it puts repayment incentives in front of candidates, which is how a hiring plan for 12,147 residents gets past the question of who would take the job.
03Is Baker underwritten as part of Baton Rouge, LA?
Partly. Baton Rouge, LA is 10 miles out, so rent and equipment comparables travel in from there while patients still come from the 12,147 residents around Baker. Cost side metro, revenue side local.
04What does SBA lending look like around Baker?
Healthcare borrowers in East Baton Rouge County took 12 approvals worth $1,932,500 in the published fiscal year, averaging $161,042. That is the comparable set an appraiser near Baker reaches for first.
05Is there local lending capacity in East Baton Rouge County?
County Business Patterns records 336 credit intermediation establishments in East Baton Rouge County. That is the local origination bench, and it decides whether a file gets underwritten by somebody who has seen Baker rents and resale before or by somebody working from a screen.
06What does the underserved designation in East Baton Rouge County support?
East Baton Rouge County carries a medically underserved designation. It evidences unmet demand behind a capacity build, and it opens recruitment programs that make a staffing line in a projection easier to defend than local wage data alone would.
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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