Washington micro-market
Healthcare practice financing in Yakima, Washington
Direct answer
97,390 residents, 1,229 enumerated clinicians, 126.2 per 10,000, 18 percent of them in physical, occupational, and speech therapy: that is the Yakima market a funder prices. Yakima County adds 7 healthcare approvals worth $8,462,700 and 0 miles of distance to Yakima, WA.
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- Population: 97,390 residents (50K-100K band)1
- Healthcare providers registered here: 1,229 across 33 fields2
- Median household income: $59,2283
- Largest provider field: Physical, occupational, and speech therapy: 216 registered providers2
- Medicare-certified providers in town: 9 across 4 categories4
- Nearest metro: Yakima, WA, 0 miles1
What NPPES records at Yakima addresses
The NPPES file puts 1,229 enumerated clinicians inside Yakima, spread over 33 fields at 126.2 per 10,000 residents
| Practice type | Count | Rate per 10,000 residents | Published by |
|---|---|---|---|
| Physical, occupational, and speech therapy | 216 | 22.2 | NPPES [2] |
| Behavioral and mental health group practices | 214 | 22.0 | NPPES [2] |
| Primary care and family medicine | 204 | 20.9 | NPPES [2] |
| General dentistry | 83 | 8.5 | NPPES [2] |
| Specialty physician groups | 71 | 7.3 | NPPES [2] |
| Chiropractic | 60 | 6.2 | NPPES [2] |
| Optometry and ophthalmology | 45 | 4.6 | NPPES [2] |
| ABA and autism therapy | 41 | 4.2 | NPPES [2] |
| Dental specialties | 34 | 3.5 | NPPES [2] |
| DME and HME suppliers | 33 | 3.4 | NPPES [2] |
| Skilled nursing, assisted living, and memory care | 33 | 3.4 | NPPES [2] |
| Occupational health and drug testing | 32 | 3.3 | NPPES [2] |
| Independent pharmacy | 31 | 3.2 | NPPES [2] |
| Ketamine, TMS, and interventional psychiatry | 25 | 2.6 | NPPES [2] |
| SUD treatment and residential | 14 | 1.4 | NPPES [2] |
| Clinical and toxicology labs | 13 | 1.3 | NPPES [2] |
| Audiology and hearing centers | 12 | 1.2 | NPPES [2] |
| Dermatology | 10 | 1.0 | NPPES [2] |
| ASCs and OBLs | 9 | 0.9 | NPPES [2] |
| Med spa and aesthetics | 9 | 0.9 | NPPES [2] |
| Home health | 8 | 0.8 | NPPES [2] |
| Telehealth and virtual clinics | 7 | 0.7 | NPPES [2] |
| Non-medical home care | 6 | 0.6 | NPPES [2] |
| Urgent care | 3 | 0.3 | NPPES [2] |
| Hormone, TRT, and men's health clinics | 3 | 0.3 | NPPES [2] |
| Dialysis and infusion centers | 3 | 0.3 | NPPES [2] |
| Podiatry | 2 | 0.2 | NPPES [2] |
| NEMT and ambulance | 2 | 0.2 | NPPES [2] |
| Hospice and palliative | 2 | 0.2 | NPPES [2] |
| IDD services | 1 | 0.1 | NPPES [2] |
| Sleep centers | 1 | 0.1 | NPPES [2] |
| Imaging centers | 1 | 0.1 | NPPES [2] |
| Clinical research sites | 1 | 0.1 | NPPES [2] |
| Medical equipment suppliers | 23 | CMS [4] | |
| Ambulatory surgical centers | 3 | CMS [4] | |
| Hospice providers | 2 | CMS [4] | |
| Dialysis facilities | 2 | CMS [4] | |
| Home health agencies | 2 | CMS [4] |
A single Yakima practice can hold more than one of these numbers. 18 percent sit in physical, occupational, and speech therapy, counted as clinicians rather than as owners.
Loan activity in Yakima County
The county file holds 7 healthcare approvals, which is a thin comparable set for anyone pricing collateral
| Line | Amount | Reading and source |
|---|---|---|
| Healthcare files approved | 7 | Counted for the fiscal year the SBA publishes [5] |
| Dollars behind them | $8,462,700 | Everything approved to healthcare borrowers, added up [5] |
| Typical approval size | $1,208,957 | The dollar column over the approval column [5] |
| Credit offices operating locally | 111 | Places that write credit locally, NAICS 522 [6] |
Reading Yakima the way a credit committee does
Underwriting starts with 126.2 providers per 10,000 residents, because that ratio caps how fast a chair or a room fills. With 7 approvals on record in Yakima County, expect a longer appraisal and a wider collateral discount. Household income of $59,228 in Yakima is the number a lender uses to sanity check the self-pay share of a revenue projection.
Programs the Yakima 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 Yakima's own provider mix, which physical, occupational, and speech therapy dominates at 18 percent. What a partner can actually place in Washington is a separate question.
What a funder reads first in Yakima
Drawn from the fields that actually practice here: physical, occupational, and speech therapy, behavioral and mental health group practices, primary care and family medicine
| Practice type | The pages that decide it | Typical capital event |
|---|---|---|
| Physical, occupational, and speech therapy (216) | Visits per case, Referral source concentration, Payer mix and authorization rules | Startup or expansion clinic |
| Behavioral and mental health group practices (214) | 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 (204) | Panel size, Value-based contract exposure, Provider productivity | Acquisition |
Counts in the first column are Yakima providers from NPPES. The other two columns describe how funders read that field across markets like Yakima, not what any funder will do with your file.
Yakima against nearby Washington markets
Comparables travel. These are the Washington towns whose density, at 126.2 per 10,000 here, gets weighed beside this one.
| Comparable | People | Enumerations | Per 10,000 residents | Miles |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Yakima (current) | 97,390 | 1,229 | 126.2 | |
| Ellensburg | 20,996 | 207 | 98.6 | 28 |
| Sunnyside | 16,317 | 122 | 74.8 | 32 |
| Grandview | 11,599 | 74 | 63.8 | 39 |
| East Wenatchee | 14,330 | 129 | 90.0 | 58 |
| West Richland | 18,820 | 46 | 24.4 | 58 |
| Wenatchee | 35,401 | 755 | 213.3 | 59 |
Distance, income, and the wage floor around Yakima
Yakima, WA lies 0 miles from Yakima, close enough that appraisers price the lease against Yakima, WA rents while 97,390 residents set the revenue ceiling. Median household income runs $59,228, which is the number a funder converts into case acceptance on anything elective or cash-pay. The hospital fixes two inputs a lender would otherwise estimate in a 97,390 resident town: where referrals originate, and what staff cost. A college in Yakima puts a term-shaped curve into monthly collections. Yakima is the Yakima County seat, so county employment steadies the payer mix.
More of Washington
- Ellensburg 20,996 residents
- Sunnyside 16,317 residents
- Grandview 11,599 residents
- East Wenatchee 14,330 residents
- West Richland 18,820 residents
- Wenatchee 35,401 residents
Questions from Yakima
01How many providers practice in Yakima, and in what?
1,229 enumerations sit at Yakima addresses in the monthly NPPES file, working out to 126.2 for every 10,000 residents. 18 percent of them are physical, occupational, and speech therapy, and behavioral and mental health group practices follows with 214. An enumeration is a clinician, so the 1,229 here cover fewer than 1,229 practices.
02Which fields carry the volume in Yakima?
The 33 enumerated fields are led by physical, occupational, and speech therapy at 216, with behavioral and mental health group practices at 214 behind it. Those two counts double as the competition you are entering and the bench you would hire from.
03What does Yakima County's shortage designation change?
The primary care, dental, mental health designation HRSA carries on Yakima County is a recruiting instrument: it puts repayment incentives in front of candidates, which is how a hiring plan for 97,390 residents gets past the question of who would take the job.
04Why does Yakima County show so little SBA activity?
Yakima County shows 7 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. 111 lending establishments operate locally.
05How does the hospital in Yakima 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. 9 Medicare-certified providers are located here in total. It also sets the wage floor behind every hire in a 126.2 per 10,000 market.
06What does a $59,228 median income mean for case acceptance?
Median household income in Yakima runs $59,228. 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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