New York micro-market
Healthcare practice financing in Amsterdam, New York
Direct answer
18,169 residents, 225 enumerated clinicians, 123.8 per 10,000, 38 percent of them in physical, occupational, and speech therapy: that is the Amsterdam market a funder prices. Montgomery County adds 0 healthcare approvals worth $0 and 28 miles of distance to Albany-Schenectady-Troy, NY.
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- Population: 18,169 residents (10K-25K band)1
- Healthcare providers registered here: 225 across 22 fields2
- Median household income: $50,1933
- Largest provider field: Physical, occupational, and speech therapy: 86 registered providers2
- Medicare-certified providers in town: 2 across 1 categories4
- Nearest metro: Albany-Schenectady-Troy, NY, 28 miles1
The provider census in Amsterdam
225 providers across 22 fields, 123.8 per 10,000 residents, counted at Amsterdam addresses in the NPPES monthly file
| Field | Providers | Per 10,000 residents | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Physical, occupational, and speech therapy | 86 | 47.3 | NPPES [2] |
| Primary care and family medicine | 26 | 14.3 | NPPES [2] |
| Specialty physician groups | 20 | 11.0 | NPPES [2] |
| DME and HME suppliers | 13 | 7.2 | NPPES [2] |
| General dentistry | 11 | 6.1 | NPPES [2] |
| Optometry and ophthalmology | 11 | 6.1 | NPPES [2] |
| Independent pharmacy | 10 | 5.5 | NPPES [2] |
| Skilled nursing, assisted living, and memory care | 8 | 4.4 | NPPES [2] |
| Dental specialties | 6 | 3.3 | NPPES [2] |
| Ketamine, TMS, and interventional psychiatry | 5 | 2.8 | NPPES [2] |
| Telehealth and virtual clinics | 5 | 2.8 | NPPES [2] |
| Chiropractic | 4 | 2.2 | NPPES [2] |
| Home health | 3 | 1.7 | NPPES [2] |
| NEMT and ambulance | 3 | 1.7 | NPPES [2] |
| Podiatry | 2 | 1.1 | NPPES [2] |
| Med spa and aesthetics | 2 | 1.1 | NPPES [2] |
| Hormone, TRT, and men's health clinics | 2 | 1.1 | NPPES [2] |
| Behavioral and mental health group practices | 2 | 1.1 | NPPES [2] |
| Dialysis and infusion centers | 2 | 1.1 | NPPES [2] |
| Occupational health and drug testing | 2 | 1.1 | NPPES [2] |
| ASCs and OBLs | 1 | 0.6 | NPPES [2] |
| Audiology and hearing centers | 1 | 0.6 | NPPES [2] |
| Medical equipment suppliers | 11 | CMS [4] | |
| Dialysis facilities | 2 | CMS [4] |
Several of the 86 physical, occupational, and speech therapy enumerations can belong to one practice, so the column counts clinicians rather than businesses or owners
What Montgomery County credit files already show
The county file holds 0 healthcare approvals, which is a thin comparable set for anyone pricing collateral
| Measure | Published figure | What sits behind it |
|---|---|---|
| Healthcare files approved | 0 | One published fiscal year, healthcare borrowers only [5] |
| Dollars behind them | $0 | Approved, not disbursed, and not net of withdrawals [5] |
| Typical approval size | No approvals recorded | A mean, so one large approval moves it [5] |
| Credit offices operating locally | 18 | Credit intermediation offices sited in the county [6] |
The consequence of these numbers
The ratio that matters up front is 123.8 per 10,000, which decides whether a ramp schedule reads as conservative. A short county record of 0 approvals usually means more documentation and a lower advance against the same collateral. Household income of $50,193 in Amsterdam is the number a lender uses to sanity check the self-pay share of a revenue projection.
Programs the Amsterdam mix reaches for
- Practice acquisition
- Startup and de novo
- Working capital term loan
- Expansion, relocation, and build-out
- Equipment financing and leasing
The order comes from Amsterdam's own provider mix, which physical, occupational, and speech therapy dominates at 38 percent. What a partner can actually place in New York is a separate question.
What a funder reads first in Amsterdam
physical, occupational, and speech therapy, primary care and family medicine, specialty physician groups account for most of what is enumerated in Amsterdam, so those are the files funders see from this town
| Field | What the file turns on | The capital event behind most requests |
|---|---|---|
| Physical, occupational, and speech therapy (86) | Visits per case, Referral source concentration, Payer mix and authorization rules | Startup or expansion clinic |
| Primary care and family medicine (26) | Panel size, Value-based contract exposure, Provider productivity | Acquisition |
| Specialty physician groups (20) | Ancillary revenue contribution, Provider productivity, Payer contracts | Ancillary build-out |
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.
Amsterdam against nearby New York markets
The neighboring markets below are the ones a valuation borrows from when Amsterdam has too few sales of its own
| Town | Residents | Providers | Per 10,000 | Miles away |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Amsterdam (current) | 18,169 | 225 | 123.8 | |
| Gloversville | 14,894 | 123 | 82.6 | 11 |
| Saratoga Springs | 28,741 | 441 | 153.4 | 23 |
| Cohoes | 18,530 | 94 | 50.7 | 27 |
| Watervliet | 10,268 | 48 | 46.7 | 29 |
| Glens Falls | 14,455 | 291 | 201.3 | 38 |
| Utica | 63,660 | 661 | 103.8 | 53 |
What the geography does to a Amsterdam projection
Albany-Schenectady-Troy, NY lies 28 miles from Amsterdam, close enough for rent comparables to travel and far enough that patient draw does not. Households here carry $50,193 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.
More of New York
- Gloversville 14,894 residents
- Saratoga Springs 28,741 residents
- Cohoes 18,530 residents
- Watervliet 10,268 residents
- Glens Falls 14,455 residents
- Utica 63,660 residents
Amsterdam owners, answered
01How many providers practice in Amsterdam, and in what?
225 enumerations sit at Amsterdam addresses in the monthly NPPES file, working out to 123.8 for every 10,000 residents. 38 percent of them are physical, occupational, and speech therapy, and primary care and family medicine follows with 26. An enumeration is a clinician, so the 225 here cover fewer than 225 practices.
02Why does Montgomery County show so little SBA activity?
The published file records 0 7(a) and 504 approvals to healthcare borrowers in Montgomery County. That tracks how few Montgomery County practices changed hands that year, not credit quality. 18 credit intermediation establishments operate in Montgomery County, so the lending capacity is local even where the healthcare history is not.
03What does Montgomery County's shortage designation change?
HRSA designates Montgomery County for primary care, dental, mental health. That opens loan repayment programs for clinicians recruited into Amsterdam and evidences a staffing ramp in a 18,169 resident market.
04How does the hospital in Amsterdam affect a practice file?
It makes the staffing and referral lines checkable. 2 Medicare-certified providers hold Amsterdam addresses, and the hospital sets the wage a clinical hire is bid against in a 123.8 per 10,000 market.
05What does a $50,193 median income mean for case acceptance?
Median household income in Amsterdam runs $50,193. 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 Amsterdam?
Volume concentrates in physical, occupational, and speech therapy, 86 of them, ahead of primary care and family medicine at 26, across 22 fields. A thin second field usually means a longer search for staff than a pro forma allows for.
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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