New Mexico micro-market
Healthcare practice financing in Alamogordo, New Mexico
Direct answer
A Alamogordo file is read against 381 local clinicians, 120.3 for every 10,000 of its 31,667 residents, 24 percent of them in physical, occupational, and speech therapy, plus the 0 SBA healthcare approvals worth $0 already recorded in Otero County, 62 miles from Las Cruces, NM.
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- Population: 31,667 residents (25K-50K band)1
- Healthcare providers registered here: 381 across 29 fields2
- Median household income: $52,5153
- Largest provider field: Physical, occupational, and speech therapy: 93 registered providers2
- Medicare-certified providers in town: 6 across 4 categories4
- Nearest metro: Las Cruces, NM, 62 miles1
Fields practicing inside Alamogordo
120.3 providers per 10,000 residents is what 381 enumerations across 29 fields works out to in a town of 31,667
| Practice type | Count | Rate per 10,000 residents | Published by |
|---|---|---|---|
| Physical, occupational, and speech therapy | 93 | 29.4 | NPPES [2] |
| Behavioral and mental health group practices | 59 | 18.6 | NPPES [2] |
| ABA and autism therapy | 44 | 13.9 | NPPES [2] |
| Primary care and family medicine | 41 | 12.9 | NPPES [2] |
| General dentistry | 17 | 5.4 | NPPES [2] |
| Specialty physician groups | 17 | 5.4 | NPPES [2] |
| Optometry and ophthalmology | 16 | 5.1 | NPPES [2] |
| Chiropractic | 14 | 4.4 | NPPES [2] |
| Audiology and hearing centers | 11 | 3.5 | NPPES [2] |
| DME and HME suppliers | 9 | 2.8 | NPPES [2] |
| Independent pharmacy | 9 | 2.8 | NPPES [2] |
| Home health | 6 | 1.9 | NPPES [2] |
| Skilled nursing, assisted living, and memory care | 5 | 1.6 | NPPES [2] |
| Podiatry | 4 | 1.3 | NPPES [2] |
| ASCs and OBLs | 4 | 1.3 | NPPES [2] |
| Med spa and aesthetics | 4 | 1.3 | NPPES [2] |
| Ketamine, TMS, and interventional psychiatry | 4 | 1.3 | NPPES [2] |
| Dental specialties | 3 | 0.9 | NPPES [2] |
| Hospice and palliative | 3 | 0.9 | NPPES [2] |
| Hormone, TRT, and men's health clinics | 3 | 0.9 | NPPES [2] |
| Urgent care | 2 | 0.6 | NPPES [2] |
| SUD treatment and residential | 2 | 0.6 | NPPES [2] |
| NEMT and ambulance | 2 | 0.6 | NPPES [2] |
| Non-medical home care | 2 | 0.6 | NPPES [2] |
| Telehealth and virtual clinics | 2 | 0.6 | NPPES [2] |
| Occupational health and drug testing | 2 | 0.6 | NPPES [2] |
| Dermatology | 1 | 0.3 | NPPES [2] |
| Clinical and toxicology labs | 1 | 0.3 | NPPES [2] |
| Dialysis and infusion centers | 1 | 0.3 | NPPES [2] |
| Medical equipment suppliers | 7 | CMS [4] | |
| Ambulatory surgical centers | 2 | CMS [4] | |
| Home health agencies | 2 | CMS [4] | |
| Hospice providers | 1 | CMS [4] | |
| Dialysis facilities | 1 | CMS [4] |
A single Alamogordo practice can hold more than one of these numbers. 24 percent sit in physical, occupational, and speech therapy, counted as clinicians rather than as owners.
What lenders have already approved in Otero County
0 healthcare approvals sit in the county file, so an appraiser here works from a short comparable set
| Line | Amount | Reading and source |
|---|---|---|
| Healthcare files approved | 0 | Counted for the fiscal year the SBA publishes [5] |
| Dollars behind them | $0 | Everything approved to healthcare borrowers, added up [5] |
| Typical approval size | No approvals recorded | The dollar column over the approval column [5] |
| Credit offices operating locally | 31 | Places that write credit locally, NAICS 522 [6] |
Reading Alamogordo the way a credit committee does
At 120.3 clinicians per 10,000 residents, the catchment radius in a projection has to be defended rather than assumed. With 0 approvals on record in Otero County, expect a longer appraisal and a wider collateral discount. Household income of $52,515 in Alamogordo is the number a lender uses to sanity check the self-pay share of a revenue projection.
Programs the Alamogordo mix reaches for
- Practice acquisition
- Working capital term loan
- Startup and de novo
- Expansion, relocation, and build-out
- Equipment financing and leasing
The order comes from Alamogordo's own provider mix, which physical, occupational, and speech therapy dominates at 24 percent. What a partner can actually place in New Mexico is a separate question.
Underwriting by field in Alamogordo
Drawn from the fields that actually practice here: physical, occupational, and speech therapy, behavioral and mental health group practices, aba and autism therapy
| Field | What the file turns on | The capital event behind most requests |
|---|---|---|
| Physical, occupational, and speech therapy (93) | Visits per case, Referral source concentration, Payer mix and authorization rules | Startup or expansion clinic |
| Behavioral and mental health group practices (59) | Clinician retention and productivity, Payer mix and Medicaid concentration, Re-authorization and session limit exposure | Working capital through the credentialing lag |
| ABA and autism therapy (44) | Authorized hours against delivered hours, Payer mix stability, Billing compliance history | Working capital against authorization and billing lag |
Local counts come from NPPES. What a file turns on is drawn from how the field is generally reviewed, not from any decision about your practice.
How Alamogordo prices against its neighbors
120.3 per 10,000 is the figure a neighboring town gets compared against when an appraiser prices Alamogordo
| Market | Population | Clinicians | Density per 10,000 | Distance in miles |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alamogordo (current) | 31,667 | 381 | 120.3 | |
| Sunland Park | 18,185 | 43 | 23.6 | 82 |
| Artesia | 12,550 | 90 | 71.7 | 89 |
| Roswell | 47,176 | 388 | 82.2 | 90 |
| Carlsbad | 31,999 | 202 | 63.1 | 105 |
| Deming | 15,272 | 103 | 67.4 | 112 |
| Los Lunas | 19,907 | 233 | 117.0 | 141 |
Distance, income, and the wage floor around Alamogordo
Las Cruces, NM lies 62 miles from Alamogordo, far enough that a used chair, chairside unit, or imaging system has no nearby resale market, which is where the collateral discount comes from. Median household income runs $52,515, which is the number a funder converts into case acceptance on anything elective or cash-pay. A Medicare-certified hospital operates here, so referral flow is verifiable and the clinical wage floor is already set. A degree-granting institution here moves volume on the academic calendar. Alamogordo is the Otero County seat, so county employment steadies the payer mix.
Nearby New Mexico towns
Alamogordo owners, answered
01How many providers practice in Alamogordo, and in what?
381 enumerations sit at Alamogordo addresses in the monthly NPPES file, working out to 120.3 for every 10,000 residents. 24 percent of them are physical, occupational, and speech therapy, and behavioral and mental health group practices follows with 59. An enumeration is a clinician, so the 381 here cover fewer than 381 practices.
02Does being 62 miles out change the underwriting?
Las Cruces, NM is 62 miles away, far enough that rent and equipment resale comparables get pulled from Otero County rather than a metro market. At 62 miles the appraisal window runs longer and equipment resale gets discounted.
03What does Otero County's shortage designation change?
The primary care, dental, mental health designation HRSA carries on Otero County is a recruiting instrument: it puts repayment incentives in front of candidates, which is how a hiring plan for 31,667 residents gets past the question of who would take the job.
04Why does Otero County show so little SBA activity?
Otero County shows 0 approvals in the SBA healthcare file, which means an appraiser reaches outside the county for comparables. Few sales, not weak credit, is the usual reason. 31 lending establishments operate locally.
05How does the hospital in Alamogordo affect a practice file?
A Medicare-certified hospital operates in the town, which gives referral flow, a call schedule, and a clinical labor pool a funder can verify. 6 Medicare-certified providers are located here in total. It also sets the wage floor behind every hire in a 120.3 per 10,000 market.
06Which fields carry the volume in Alamogordo?
Physical, occupational, and speech therapy at 93 providers and behavioral and mental health group practices at 59 lead the 29 fields enumerated here. A funder reads that mix as the local competition set and the local hiring pool at once, before it reads a single line of your own numbers.
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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