New Mexico micro-market
Healthcare practice financing in Portales, New Mexico
Direct answer
Density decides a lot here. Portales runs 113.7 providers per 10,000 residents, 134 clinicians against 11,789 people, 40 percent of them in physical, occupational, and speech therapy, while Roosevelt County lenders have approved 0 healthcare files worth $0 and the nearest metro is 94 miles out.
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- Population: 11,789 residents (10K-25K band)1
- Healthcare providers registered here: 134 across 18 fields2
- Median household income: $51,2903
- Largest provider field: Physical, occupational, and speech therapy: 53 registered providers2
- Nearest metro: Lubbock, TX, 94 miles1
- Hospital: A Medicare-certified hospital operates in the town4
Fields practicing inside Portales
113.7 providers per 10,000 residents is what 134 enumerations across 18 fields works out to in a town of 11,789
| Practice type | Count | Rate per 10,000 residents | Published by |
|---|---|---|---|
| Physical, occupational, and speech therapy | 53 | 45.0 | NPPES [2] |
| Behavioral and mental health group practices | 33 | 28.0 | NPPES [2] |
| Primary care and family medicine | 9 | 7.6 | NPPES [2] |
| General dentistry | 7 | 5.9 | NPPES [2] |
| Chiropractic | 6 | 5.1 | NPPES [2] |
| Specialty physician groups | 4 | 3.4 | NPPES [2] |
| NEMT and ambulance | 3 | 2.5 | NPPES [2] |
| Independent pharmacy | 3 | 2.5 | NPPES [2] |
| Telehealth and virtual clinics | 3 | 2.5 | NPPES [2] |
| Skilled nursing, assisted living, and memory care | 3 | 2.5 | NPPES [2] |
| ABA and autism therapy | 2 | 1.7 | NPPES [2] |
| Optometry and ophthalmology | 2 | 1.7 | NPPES [2] |
| Dermatology | 1 | 0.8 | NPPES [2] |
| DME and HME suppliers | 1 | 0.8 | NPPES [2] |
| Home health | 1 | 0.8 | NPPES [2] |
| Audiology and hearing centers | 1 | 0.8 | NPPES [2] |
| Non-medical home care | 1 | 0.8 | NPPES [2] |
| Med spa and aesthetics | 1 | 0.8 | NPPES [2] |
| Medical equipment suppliers | 1 | CMS [4] |
A single Portales practice can hold more than one of these numbers. 40 percent sit in physical, occupational, and speech therapy, counted as clinicians rather than as owners.
Roosevelt County approvals, dollars, and lending establishments
The county file holds 0 healthcare approvals, which is a thin comparable set for anyone pricing collateral
| Line | Amount | Reading and source |
|---|---|---|
| SBA healthcare approvals | 0 | One published fiscal year, healthcare borrowers only [5] |
| Approved dollars | $0 | Approved, not disbursed, and not net of withdrawals [5] |
| Average approval | No approvals recorded | A mean, so one large approval moves it [5] |
| Lending establishments in the county | 11 | Credit intermediation offices sited in the county [6] |
How this data lands in an underwriting decision
113.7 per 10,000 is the first number a credit analyst converts into a realistic new-patient count. With 0 approvals on record in Roosevelt County, expect a longer appraisal and a wider collateral discount. Household income of $51,290 in Portales is the number a lender uses to sanity check the self-pay share of a revenue projection.
Programs the Portales mix reaches for
- Practice acquisition
- Working capital term loan
- Startup and de novo
- Expansion, relocation, and build-out
- Business line of credit
Ranked from the 18 fields that actually practice in Portales, weighted toward physical, occupational, and speech therapy. Availability still depends on New Mexico and on the funding partner.
The first pages of a Portales file
Drawn from the fields that actually practice here: physical, occupational, and speech therapy, behavioral and mental health group practices, primary care and family medicine
| Specialty | Read first in underwriting | Why the money is usually needed |
|---|---|---|
| Physical, occupational, and speech therapy (53) | Visits per case, Referral source concentration, Payer mix and authorization rules | Startup or expansion clinic |
| Behavioral and mental health group practices (33) | Clinician retention and productivity, Payer mix and Medicaid concentration, Re-authorization and session limit exposure | Working capital through the credentialing lag |
| Primary care and family medicine (9) | Panel size, Value-based contract exposure, Provider productivity | Acquisition |
The first column is Portales's own NPPES count. The rest is how the field is generally underwritten, whether the address is Portales or anywhere else.
Portales against nearby New Mexico markets
Comparables travel. These are the New Mexico towns whose density, at 113.7 per 10,000 here, gets weighed beside this one.
| Town | Residents | Providers | Per 10,000 | Miles away |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Portales (current) | 11,789 | 134 | 113.7 | |
| Clovis | 37,555 | 448 | 119.3 | 20 |
| Lovington | 11,693 | 86 | 73.5 | 85 |
| Roswell | 47,176 | 388 | 82.2 | 87 |
| Hobbs | 41,061 | 230 | 56.0 | 101 |
| Artesia | 12,550 | 90 | 71.7 | 110 |
| Carlsbad | 31,999 | 202 | 63.1 | 133 |
How Portales sits against the nearest metro
Distance to Lubbock, TX is 94 miles. Resale for used clinical equipment is effectively absent, which is why collateral gets marked down. Households here carry $51,290 in median income, and that ceiling decides how much of a treatment plan gets started rather than deferred. A Medicare-certified hospital operates here, so referral flow is verifiable and the clinical wage floor is already set. A college in Portales puts a term-shaped curve into monthly collections. Portales is the Roosevelt County seat, so county employment steadies the payer mix.
More of New Mexico
What owners in Portales ask
01How many providers practice in Portales, and in what?
134 enumerations sit at Portales addresses in the monthly NPPES file, working out to 113.7 for every 10,000 residents. 40 percent of them are physical, occupational, and speech therapy, and behavioral and mental health group practices follows with 33. An enumeration is a clinician, so the 134 here cover fewer than 134 practices.
02Does being 94 miles out change the underwriting?
At 94 miles from Lubbock, TX, collateral is priced without a nearby resale market. Expect a longer appraisal window in Roosevelt County and a wider discount on used equipment than a metro practice would see on the same list.
03What does Roosevelt County's shortage designation change?
The primary care, dental, mental health designation HRSA carries on Roosevelt County is a recruiting instrument: it puts repayment incentives in front of candidates, which is how a hiring plan for 11,789 residents gets past the question of who would take the job.
04Why does Roosevelt County show so little SBA activity?
The published file records 0 7(a) and 504 approvals to healthcare borrowers in Roosevelt County. That tracks how few Roosevelt County practices changed hands that year, not credit quality. 11 credit intermediation establishments operate in Roosevelt County, so the lending capacity is local even where the healthcare history is not.
05How does the hospital in Portales 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 113.7 per 10,000 market.
06What does a $51,290 median income mean for case acceptance?
Median household income in Portales runs $51,290. 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.
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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