West Virginia micro-market
Healthcare practice financing in Weirton, West Virginia
Direct answer
Density decides a lot here. Weirton runs 97.7 providers per 10,000 residents, 179 clinicians against 18,317 people, 20 percent of them in physical, occupational, and speech therapy, while Hancock County lenders have approved 3 healthcare files worth $875,000 and the nearest metro is 0 miles out.
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- Population: 18,317 residents (10K-25K band)1
- Healthcare providers registered here: 179 across 21 fields2
- Median household income: $56,6993
- Largest provider field: Physical, occupational, and speech therapy: 36 registered providers2
- Medicare-certified providers in town: 2 across 2 categories4
- Nearest metro: Weirton-Steubenville, WV-OH, 0 miles1
Who is enumerated in Weirton
The NPPES file puts 179 enumerated clinicians inside Weirton, spread over 21 fields at 97.7 per 10,000 residents
| Field | Providers | Per 10,000 residents | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Physical, occupational, and speech therapy | 36 | 19.7 | NPPES [2] |
| Specialty physician groups | 24 | 13.1 | NPPES [2] |
| Primary care and family medicine | 19 | 10.4 | NPPES [2] |
| Optometry and ophthalmology | 14 | 7.6 | NPPES [2] |
| General dentistry | 11 | 6.0 | NPPES [2] |
| DME and HME suppliers | 10 | 5.5 | NPPES [2] |
| Home health | 8 | 4.4 | NPPES [2] |
| Chiropractic | 8 | 4.4 | NPPES [2] |
| Behavioral and mental health group practices | 8 | 4.4 | NPPES [2] |
| Independent pharmacy | 7 | 3.8 | NPPES [2] |
| Ketamine, TMS, and interventional psychiatry | 7 | 3.8 | NPPES [2] |
| Audiology and hearing centers | 6 | 3.3 | NPPES [2] |
| Skilled nursing, assisted living, and memory care | 4 | 2.2 | NPPES [2] |
| Non-medical home care | 3 | 1.6 | NPPES [2] |
| Hormone, TRT, and men's health clinics | 3 | 1.6 | NPPES [2] |
| Podiatry | 2 | 1.1 | NPPES [2] |
| Dermatology | 2 | 1.1 | NPPES [2] |
| Urgent care | 2 | 1.1 | NPPES [2] |
| Dental specialties | 2 | 1.1 | NPPES [2] |
| Clinical and toxicology labs | 2 | 1.1 | NPPES [2] |
| Dialysis and infusion centers | 1 | 0.5 | NPPES [2] |
| Medical equipment suppliers | 12 | CMS [4] | |
| Dialysis facilities | 1 | CMS [4] | |
| Home health agencies | 1 | CMS [4] |
Physical, occupational, and speech therapy carries 36 of the 179 enumerated providers here, and several of them can sit inside one practice. Read the column as clinicians, not owners.
The lending record behind Weirton
3 healthcare approvals sit in the county file, so an appraiser here works from a short comparable set
| What it measures | Value | How to read it |
|---|---|---|
| SBA healthcare approvals | 3 | One published fiscal year, healthcare borrowers only [5] |
| Approved dollars | $875,000 | Approved, not disbursed, and not net of withdrawals [5] |
| Average approval | $291,667 | A mean, so one large approval moves it [5] |
| Lending establishments in the county | 14 | Credit intermediation offices sited in the county [6] |
What the two tables above change about a file
A file from here opens on 97.7 providers per 10,000 residents, and everything about volume follows from it. With 3 approvals on record in Hancock County, expect a longer appraisal and a wider collateral discount. Household income of $56,699 in Weirton is the number a lender uses to sanity check the self-pay share of a revenue projection.
Where a file from this town usually lands
- Practice acquisition
- Expansion, relocation, and build-out
- Startup and de novo
- Equipment financing and leasing
- Working capital term loan
Built from what is enumerated here rather than from a national list, so a field with no presence in Weirton does not appear. Availability is still a West Virginia question.
The first pages of a Weirton file
physical, occupational, and speech therapy, specialty physician groups, primary care and family medicine account for most of what is enumerated in Weirton, so those are the files funders see from this town
| Practice type | The pages that decide it | Typical capital event |
|---|---|---|
| Physical, occupational, and speech therapy (36) | Visits per case, Referral source concentration, Payer mix and authorization rules | Startup or expansion clinic |
| Specialty physician groups (24) | Ancillary revenue contribution, Provider productivity, Payer contracts | Ancillary build-out |
| Primary care and family medicine (19) | Panel size, Value-based contract exposure, Provider productivity | Acquisition |
Column one counts Weirton clinicians from the federal file. Columns two and three describe how the field is usually underwritten, and a partner can read a Weirton file differently.
How Weirton prices against its neighbors
Set Weirton's 97.7 per 10,000 against the towns an appraiser would reach for next
| Town | Residents | Providers | Per 10,000 | Miles away |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weirton (current) | 18,317 | 179 | 97.7 | |
| Wheeling | 26,060 | 485 | 186.1 | 24 |
| Morgantown | 30,490 | 1,442 | 472.9 | 62 |
| Fairmont | 18,063 | 379 | 209.8 | 68 |
| Clarksburg | 15,262 | 254 | 166.4 | 79 |
| Vienna | 10,406 | 128 | 123.0 | 90 |
| Parkersburg | 28,834 | 563 | 195.3 | 94 |
How Weirton sits against the nearest metro
Distance to Weirton-Steubenville, WV-OH is 0 miles. Appraisers borrow Weirton-Steubenville, WV-OH rents, and the 18,317 residents set the ceiling on collections. Median household income runs $56,699, which is the number a funder converts into case acceptance on anything elective or cash-pay. Because a certified hospital sits inside the town, both the referral path and the pay a clinical hire expects are already observable.
More of West Virginia
- Wheeling 26,060 residents
- Morgantown 30,490 residents
- Fairmont 18,063 residents
- Clarksburg 15,262 residents
- Vienna 10,406 residents
- Parkersburg 28,834 residents
What owners in Weirton ask
01How many providers practice in Weirton, and in what?
179 enumerations sit at Weirton addresses in the monthly NPPES file, working out to 97.7 for every 10,000 residents. 20 percent of them are physical, occupational, and speech therapy, and specialty physician groups follows with 24. An enumeration is a clinician, so the 179 here cover fewer than 179 practices.
02What does Hancock County's shortage designation change?
HRSA designates Hancock County for primary care, dental, mental health. That opens loan repayment programs for clinicians recruited into Weirton and evidences a staffing ramp in a 18,317 resident market.
03Why does Hancock County show so little SBA activity?
The published file records 3 7(a) and 504 approvals to healthcare borrowers in Hancock County. That tracks how few Hancock County practices changed hands that year, not credit quality. 14 credit intermediation establishments operate in Hancock County, so the lending capacity is local even where the healthcare history is not.
04How does the hospital in Weirton affect a practice file?
It makes the staffing and referral lines checkable. 2 Medicare-certified providers hold Weirton addresses, and the hospital sets the wage a clinical hire is bid against in a 97.7 per 10,000 market.
05Is Weirton underwritten as part of Weirton-Steubenville, WV-OH?
Comparables and demand split at 0 miles. An appraiser prices the lease and the equipment off Weirton-Steubenville, WV-OH; the revenue line has to hold up against 18,317 local residents.
06What does the underserved designation in Hancock County support?
Hancock County carries a medically underserved designation. It evidences unmet demand behind a capacity build, and it opens recruitment programs that make a staffing line in a projection easier to defend than local wage data alone would.
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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