Missouri micro-market
Healthcare practice financing in Lebanon, Missouri
Direct answer
15,538 residents, 157 enumerated clinicians, 101.0 per 10,000, 19 percent of them in physical, occupational, and speech therapy: that is the Lebanon market a funder prices. Laclede County adds 1 healthcare approvals worth $1,790,900 and 48 miles of distance to Springfield, MO.
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- Population: 15,538 residents (10K-25K band)1
- Healthcare providers registered here: 157 across 20 fields2
- Median household income: $42,1573
- Largest provider field: Physical, occupational, and speech therapy: 30 registered providers2
- Medicare-certified providers in town: 1 across 1 categories4
- Nearest metro: Springfield, MO, 48 miles1
Lebanon clinicians, by field
157 providers across 20 fields, 101.0 per 10,000 residents, counted at Lebanon addresses in the NPPES monthly file
| Practice type | Count | Rate per 10,000 residents | Published by |
|---|---|---|---|
| Physical, occupational, and speech therapy | 30 | 19.3 | NPPES [2] |
| Primary care and family medicine | 28 | 18.0 | NPPES [2] |
| Chiropractic | 17 | 10.9 | NPPES [2] |
| Skilled nursing, assisted living, and memory care | 12 | 7.7 | NPPES [2] |
| General dentistry | 11 | 7.1 | NPPES [2] |
| DME and HME suppliers | 10 | 6.4 | NPPES [2] |
| Optometry and ophthalmology | 9 | 5.8 | NPPES [2] |
| Independent pharmacy | 8 | 5.1 | NPPES [2] |
| Specialty physician groups | 8 | 5.1 | NPPES [2] |
| Behavioral and mental health group practices | 6 | 3.9 | NPPES [2] |
| Dental specialties | 4 | 2.6 | NPPES [2] |
| Hospice and palliative | 4 | 2.6 | NPPES [2] |
| Home health | 3 | 1.9 | NPPES [2] |
| Dermatology | 1 | 0.6 | NPPES [2] |
| Urgent care | 1 | 0.6 | NPPES [2] |
| IDD services | 1 | 0.6 | NPPES [2] |
| Non-medical home care | 1 | 0.6 | NPPES [2] |
| Ketamine, TMS, and interventional psychiatry | 1 | 0.6 | NPPES [2] |
| Dialysis and infusion centers | 1 | 0.6 | NPPES [2] |
| Telehealth and virtual clinics | 1 | 0.6 | NPPES [2] |
| Medical equipment suppliers | 8 | CMS [4] | |
| Dialysis facilities | 1 | CMS [4] |
Physical, occupational, and speech therapy carries 30 of the 157 enumerated providers here, and several of them can sit inside one practice. Read the column as clinicians, not owners.
What Laclede County credit files already show
With 1 healthcare approvals recorded, Laclede County gives a valuation almost nothing local to lean on
| What it measures | Value | How to read it |
|---|---|---|
| Approvals on record | 1 | Fiscal year published in the SBA file [5] |
| Total approved capital | $1,790,900 | Sum of approvals to healthcare borrowers [5] |
| Mean deal size | $1,790,900 | Dollars divided by approvals [5] |
| Lenders sited in the county | 33 | Credit intermediation establishments, NAICS 522 [6] |
Reading Lebanon the way a credit committee does
A file from here opens on 101.0 providers per 10,000 residents, and everything about volume follows from it. With 1 approvals on record in Laclede County, expect a longer appraisal and a wider collateral discount. With $42,157 as the median household income, the payer mix in a projection has to match what Lebanon households actually spend.
Where a file from this town usually lands
- Practice acquisition
- Startup and de novo
- Working capital term loan
- Equipment financing and leasing
- Expansion, relocation, and build-out
Built from what is enumerated here rather than from a national list, so a field with no presence in Lebanon does not appear. Availability is still a Missouri question.
The first pages of a Lebanon file
Drawn from the fields that actually practice here: physical, occupational, and speech therapy, primary care and family medicine, chiropractic
| Practice type | The pages that decide it | Typical capital event |
|---|---|---|
| Physical, occupational, and speech therapy (30) | Visits per case, Referral source concentration, Payer mix and authorization rules | Startup or expansion clinic |
| Primary care and family medicine (28) | Panel size, Value-based contract exposure, Provider productivity | Acquisition |
| Chiropractic (17) | Cash plan revenue, Personal injury receivable age, Visit volume | Startup or acquisition |
NPPES supplies the Lebanon counts. The reading columns describe the field in general, and no partner reviewing a Lebanon file is bound by them.
Density beside the neighboring Missouri towns
Comparables travel. These are the Missouri towns whose density, at 101.0 per 10,000 here, gets weighed beside this one.
| Town | Residents | Providers | Per 10,000 | Miles away |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lebanon (current) | 15,538 | 157 | 101.0 | |
| Bolivar | 11,549 | 174 | 150.7 | 42 |
| Rolla | 20,660 | 265 | 128.3 | 53 |
| Ozark | 23,248 | 200 | 86.0 | 54 |
| Republic | 21,392 | 79 | 36.9 | 54 |
| Nixa | 26,352 | 179 | 67.9 | 55 |
| Sedalia | 22,310 | 239 | 107.1 | 78 |
What the geography does to a Lebanon projection
48 miles separate Lebanon from Springfield, MO. Rent comparables cross that gap; patients mostly do not. Median household income runs $42,157, which is the number a funder converts into case acceptance on anything elective or cash-pay. Because a certified hospital sits inside the town, both the referral path and the pay a clinical hire expects are already observable. Lebanon is the Laclede County seat, so county employment steadies the payer mix.
Other Missouri markets
What owners in Lebanon ask
01How many providers practice in Lebanon, and in what?
NPPES lists 157 providers at a Lebanon practice address, 101.0 per 10,000 residents across 20 tracked fields. Physical, occupational, and speech therapy accounts for 30 of them, 19 percent of the total, with primary care and family medicine next at 28. Read that as clinicians: 157 enumerations, not 157 owners.
02Why does Laclede County show so little SBA activity?
The published file records 1 7(a) and 504 approvals to healthcare borrowers in Laclede County. That tracks how few Laclede County practices changed hands that year, not credit quality. 33 credit intermediation establishments operate in Laclede County, so the lending capacity is local even where the healthcare history is not.
03What does Laclede County's shortage designation change?
HRSA designates Laclede County for primary care, dental, mental health. That opens loan repayment programs for clinicians recruited into Lebanon and evidences a staffing ramp in a 15,538 resident market.
04How does the hospital in Lebanon affect a practice file?
Referral flow, coverage, and the local pay scale all trace back to it. The town carries 1 Medicare-certified providers in total. A Lebanon projection that names the call arrangement reads better than one that assumes it.
05What does a $42,157 median income mean for case acceptance?
Median household income in Lebanon runs $42,157. 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.
06Which fields carry the volume in Lebanon?
The 20 enumerated fields are led by physical, occupational, and speech therapy at 30, with primary care and family medicine at 28 behind it. Those two counts double as the competition you are entering and the bench you would hire from.
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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