Healthcare practice financing in Maine

Each value carries the Maine authority that published it. Everything else is a summary of official Maine material, and a specific structure still needs a lawyer's read. Verified

Source: SBA 7(a) and 504 approval files, fiscal year 2025. Verified

Lending in Maine concentrates in AUGUSTA, $1.7 million over 1 approvals at $1.7 million average, with the remaining cities thinner and slower to appraise. Verified

Absent categories are ones CMS does not certify in Maine. Where a dataset is still to be pulled, the table says so and nothing is inferred in its place. Directional

CUMBERLAND leads Maine with 7 certified providers, ahead of PENOBSCOT at 5. Where certification clusters, credit files move on precedent; away from the cluster they move on documents. Verified

The employer base in Maine runs to 3,724 establishments, 788 of them residential care and treatment. Set beside 3,724 establishments, 42 approvals is a thin slice of how capital actually moves here. Verified

1,217 establishments sit in Cumberland, more than any other Maine county on file. A dense county gives a buyer choice and a lender comparables; a sparse one gives neither, and the timeline stretches. Verified

Mean pay for registered nurses in Maine is $86,990 across 16,540 people. Underwriters test a staffing forecast against the local mean before they credit the revenue it is supposed to produce. Verified

Counted across dental, primary care, mental health, Maine holds 3,484 designations. For an owner, that is a staffing lever attached to a location decision rather than a discount on capital. Verified

• Dental offices: $3.4 million over 6 approvals in Maine, $566,683 each, which sets what a comparable request can be documented against.
• Veterinary practices: $3.2 million across 2 approvals, averaging $1.6 million. Above $1.6 million the file needs collateral or trading history that most of those 2 Maine borrowers did not have to show.
• Med spa and personal care: $83,311 average across 9 Maine approvals worth $749,800, so a request in that range reads as routine rather than exceptional.
• Physical, occupational, and speech therapy: $209,000 average across 3 Maine approvals worth $627,000, so a request in that range reads as routine rather than exceptional.
• Chiropractic offices: $76,750 average across 8 Maine approvals worth $614,000, so a request in that range reads as routine rather than exceptional.
• Home health and hospice: average approval $134,167 over 3 closings worth $402,500. At $134,167 against $402,500 of state volume, that is an equipment or fit-out request more often than an acquisition.
• Behavioral health and ABA: 7 closings, $400,000 approved, $57,143 typical. That average is the reference point a Maine credit committee starts from on a similar file.
• Residential care and treatment: $125,000 on average, 2 approvals, $250,000 in total. Match $125,000 and the timeline is ordinary; ask well above it and the Maine diligence list lengthens.
• Physician and specialty offices: $175,000 over 2 approvals in Maine, $87,500 each, which sets what a comparable request can be documented against.

• 6 of the Maine approvals went to dental offices, 35 percent of the state's healthcare dollars at $566,683 each. Anything meaningfully larger than that average is underwritten as an outlier in Maine, with the diligence that implies.
• Veterinary practices account for 2 approvals and $3.2 million in Maine, ahead of med spa and personal care. Fields with regular volume have living comparables in the state, and that is what keeps an offer from being priced defensively.
• On the certified side, Maine carries 325 medical equipment suppliers. That number decides whether growth capital here funds an acquisition of an existing license or a slower application, and the two look nothing alike on a cash-flow schedule.
• Of the Maine approvals, 4 came through the 504 debenture structure. Because 504 is the owner-occupied real estate route, the number separates practices buying space from practices funding operations, and the two run on different timelines.

• 42 SBA approvals to Maine healthcare borrowers in FY2025¹
• $9.8 million approved, averaging $233,688 per loan¹
• 396 CMS-certified providers across 5 categories²

• Healthcare AR line and payroll funding
• Partner buy-in, buy-out, and refinance
• Commercial real estate, owner-occupied
• Equipment financing and leasing
• Business line of credit
• Practice acquisition
• Startup and de novo

• Maine State Loan Repayment Program, the state loan repayment route for clinicians recruited into shortage areas
• Maine Board of Licensure in Medicine, licensure and ownership questions for physicians
• Maine Board of Dental Practice, licensure and ownership questions for dentists

• All states covered
• Every financing program
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• Telehealth and virtual clinics, including what collections history is asked for
• Medical transcription, coding, and credentialing services, and the revenue mix a funder checks first
• Plastic and cosmetic surgery, including what collections history is asked for
• Fertility and IVF, including what collections history is asked for
• Concierge and direct primary care, with the payer profile behind the numbers
• Sleep centers, with the payer profile behind the numbers

1. 1SBA 7(a) and 504 approvals, FY2025
2. 2CMS provider certification files
3. 3NPPES provider registry
4. 4County Business Patterns 2022
5. 5BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, OEWS 2025
6. 6HRSA health professional shortage area file
7. 7Maine certificate of need
8. 8Maine State Loan Repayment Program
9. 9Maine Board of Licensure in Medicine
10. 10Maine Board of Dental Practice