Washington micro-market
Healthcare practice financing in Covington, Washington
Direct answer
King County carries 91 SBA healthcare approvals worth $42,384,900, and inside Covington the census shows 190 enumerated clinicians against 21,567 residents, 88.1 per 10,000, 27 percent of them in physical, occupational, and speech therapy. Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA lies 21 miles away.
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- Population: 21,567 residents (10K-25K band)1
- Healthcare providers registered here: 190 across 21 fields2
- Median household income: $126,7303
- Largest provider field: Physical, occupational, and speech therapy: 51 registered providers2
- Nearest metro: Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA, 21 miles1
- Hospital: A Medicare-certified hospital operates in the town4
What NPPES records at Covington addresses
88.1 providers per 10,000 residents is what 190 enumerations across 21 fields works out to in a town of 21,567
| Field | Providers | Per 10,000 residents | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Physical, occupational, and speech therapy | 51 | 23.6 | NPPES [2] |
| Primary care and family medicine | 27 | 12.5 | NPPES [2] |
| General dentistry | 23 | 10.7 | NPPES [2] |
| ABA and autism therapy | 14 | 6.5 | NPPES [2] |
| Chiropractic | 12 | 5.6 | NPPES [2] |
| Dental specialties | 10 | 4.6 | NPPES [2] |
| Optometry and ophthalmology | 10 | 4.6 | NPPES [2] |
| Independent pharmacy | 8 | 3.7 | NPPES [2] |
| Behavioral and mental health group practices | 7 | 3.2 | NPPES [2] |
| DME and HME suppliers | 6 | 2.8 | NPPES [2] |
| Audiology and hearing centers | 4 | 1.9 | NPPES [2] |
| Podiatry | 3 | 1.4 | NPPES [2] |
| Specialty physician groups | 3 | 1.4 | NPPES [2] |
| Dermatology | 2 | 0.9 | NPPES [2] |
| Imaging centers | 2 | 0.9 | NPPES [2] |
| Ketamine, TMS, and interventional psychiatry | 2 | 0.9 | NPPES [2] |
| Occupational health and drug testing | 2 | 0.9 | NPPES [2] |
| Pain management and interventional | 1 | 0.5 | NPPES [2] |
| Non-medical home care | 1 | 0.5 | NPPES [2] |
| Clinical and toxicology labs | 1 | 0.5 | NPPES [2] |
| Telehealth and virtual clinics | 1 | 0.5 | NPPES [2] |
| Medical equipment suppliers | 4 | CMS [4] |
A single Covington practice can hold more than one of these numbers. 27 percent sit in physical, occupational, and speech therapy, counted as clinicians rather than as owners.
What lenders have already approved in King County
91 healthcare approvals averaging $465,768 set the deal shape lenders in King County have already underwritten
| Measure | Published figure | What sits behind it |
|---|---|---|
| SBA healthcare approvals | 91 | One published fiscal year, healthcare borrowers only [5] |
| Approved dollars | $42,384,900 | Approved, not disbursed, and not net of withdrawals [5] |
| Average approval | $465,768 | A mean, so one large approval moves it [5] |
| Lending establishments in the county | 1,205 | Credit intermediation offices sited in the county [6] |
Reading Covington the way a credit committee does
A file from here opens on 88.1 providers per 10,000 residents, and everything about volume follows from it. 91 approvals worth $42,384,900 in King County means the size you are asking for has a local precedent to point at. A $126,730 median household income here sets the ceiling on what an elective or cash-pay line can be expected to carry.
Programs the Covington 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 Covington's own provider mix, which physical, occupational, and speech therapy dominates at 27 percent. What a partner can actually place in Washington is a separate question.
Underwriting by field in Covington
physical, occupational, and speech therapy, primary care and family medicine, general dentistry account for most of what is enumerated in Covington, so those are the files funders see from this town
| Specialty | Read first in underwriting | Why the money is usually needed |
|---|---|---|
| Physical, occupational, and speech therapy (51) | Visits per case, Referral source concentration, Payer mix and authorization rules | Startup or expansion clinic |
| Primary care and family medicine (27) | Panel size, Value-based contract exposure, Provider productivity | Acquisition |
| General dentistry (23) | Three years of collections history, Hygiene as a share of collections, Overhead ratio and owner add-backs | Acquisition of an established practice |
Counts in the first column are Covington providers from NPPES. The other two columns describe how funders read that field across markets like Covington, not what any funder will do with your file.
Density beside the neighboring Washington towns
The neighboring markets below are the ones a valuation borrows from when Covington has too few sales of its own
| Market | Population | Clinicians | Density per 10,000 | Distance in miles |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Covington (current) | 21,567 | 190 | 88.1 | |
| Maple Valley | 28,553 | 189 | 66.2 | 3 |
| Des Moines | 33,207 | 185 | 55.7 | 10 |
| Sumner | 10,885 | 86 | 79.0 | 11 |
| Tukwila | 21,636 | 683 | 315.7 | 11 |
| SeaTac | 34,024 | 103 | 30.3 | 11 |
| Enumclaw | 13,173 | 147 | 111.6 | 12 |
How Covington sits against the nearest metro
Distance to Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA is 21 miles. Appraisers borrow Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA rents, and the 21,567 residents set the ceiling on collections. Households here carry $126,730 in median income, and that ceiling decides how much of a treatment plan gets started rather than deferred. Hospital coverage inside Covington means a call schedule can be evidenced rather than described.
Other Washington markets
- Maple Valley 28,553 residents
- Des Moines 33,207 residents
- Sumner 10,885 residents
- Tukwila 21,636 residents
- SeaTac 34,024 residents
- Enumclaw 13,173 residents
What owners in Covington ask
01How many providers practice in Covington, and in what?
NPPES lists 190 providers at a Covington practice address, 88.1 per 10,000 residents across 21 tracked fields. Physical, occupational, and speech therapy accounts for 51 of them, 27 percent of the total, with primary care and family medicine next at 27. Read that as clinicians: 190 enumerations, not 190 owners.
02What does King County's shortage designation change?
HRSA designates King County for primary care, dental, mental health. That opens loan repayment programs for clinicians recruited into Covington and evidences a staffing ramp in a 21,567 resident market.
03What does SBA lending look like around Covington?
The county file behind Covington holds 91 healthcare approvals totaling $42,384,900, an average of $465,768. Those are the loan sizes lenders in King County have already carried.
04Is Covington underwritten as part of Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA?
Partly. Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA is 21 miles out, so rent and equipment comparables travel in from there while patients still come from the 21,567 residents around Covington. Cost side metro, revenue side local.
05What does a $126,730 median income mean for case acceptance?
Median household income in Covington runs $126,730. 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.
06How does the hospital in Covington 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 88.1 per 10,000 market.
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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