Wisconsin micro-market
Healthcare practice financing in DeForest, Wisconsin
Direct answer
12,260 residents, 43 enumerated clinicians, 35.1 per 10,000, 40 percent of them in physical, occupational, and speech therapy: that is the DeForest market a funder prices. Dane County adds 14 healthcare approvals worth $5,021,000 and 11 miles of distance to Madison, WI.
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- Population: 12,260 residents (10K-25K band)1
- Healthcare providers registered here: 43 across 14 fields2
- Median household income: $106,2233
- Largest provider field: Physical, occupational, and speech therapy: 17 registered providers2
- Nearest metro: Madison, WI, 11 miles1
- SBA healthcare approvals in the county: 14 approvals totaling $5,021,0004
DeForest clinicians, by field
43 providers across 14 fields, 35.1 per 10,000 residents, counted at DeForest addresses in the NPPES monthly file
| Field | Providers | Per 10,000 residents | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Physical, occupational, and speech therapy | 17 | 13.9 | NPPES [2] |
| Primary care and family medicine | 7 | 5.7 | NPPES [2] |
| Chiropractic | 6 | 4.9 | NPPES [2] |
| Home health | 2 | 1.6 | NPPES [2] |
| General dentistry | 2 | 1.6 | NPPES [2] |
| DME and HME suppliers | 1 | 0.8 | NPPES [2] |
| NEMT and ambulance | 1 | 0.8 | NPPES [2] |
| Independent pharmacy | 1 | 0.8 | NPPES [2] |
| Non-medical home care | 1 | 0.8 | NPPES [2] |
| Med spa and aesthetics | 1 | 0.8 | NPPES [2] |
| Ketamine, TMS, and interventional psychiatry | 1 | 0.8 | NPPES [2] |
| Specialty physician groups | 1 | 0.8 | NPPES [2] |
| Optometry and ophthalmology | 1 | 0.8 | NPPES [2] |
| Behavioral and mental health group practices | 1 | 0.8 | NPPES [2] |
| Medical equipment suppliers | 1 | CMS [5] |
Several of the 17 physical, occupational, and speech therapy enumerations can belong to one practice, so the column counts clinicians rather than businesses or owners
What Dane County credit files already show
Lenders in Dane County have already closed 14 healthcare approvals, averaging $358,643, which is the size a new file gets read beside
| Measure | Published figure | What sits behind it |
|---|---|---|
| Healthcare files approved | 14 | One published fiscal year, healthcare borrowers only [4] |
| Dollars behind them | $5,021,000 | Approved, not disbursed, and not net of withdrawals [4] |
| Typical approval size | $358,643 | A mean, so one large approval moves it [4] |
| Credit offices operating locally | 299 | Credit intermediation offices sited in the county [6] |
The consequence of these numbers
At 35.1 clinicians per 10,000 residents, the catchment radius in a projection has to be defended rather than assumed. A request measured against 14 prior Dane County approvals is priced on precedent, which shortens the questions about valuation. With $106,223 as the median household income, the payer mix in a projection has to match what DeForest households actually spend.
The programs this provider mix points at
- Practice acquisition
- Startup and de novo
- Working capital term loan
- Expansion, relocation, and build-out
- Equipment financing and leasing
Built from what is enumerated here rather than from a national list, so a field with no presence in DeForest does not appear. Availability is still a Wisconsin question.
The first pages of a DeForest file
Drawn from the fields that actually practice here: physical, occupational, and speech therapy, primary care and family medicine, chiropractic
| Specialty | Read first in underwriting | Why the money is usually needed |
|---|---|---|
| Physical, occupational, and speech therapy (17) | Visits per case, Referral source concentration, Payer mix and authorization rules | Startup or expansion clinic |
| Primary care and family medicine (7) | Panel size, Value-based contract exposure, Provider productivity | Acquisition |
| Chiropractic (6) | Cash plan revenue, Personal injury receivable age, Visit volume | Startup or acquisition |
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.
How DeForest prices against its neighbors
35.1 per 10,000 is the figure a neighboring town gets compared against when an appraiser prices DeForest
| Town | Residents | Providers | Per 10,000 | Miles away |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DeForest (current) | 12,260 | 43 | 35.1 | |
| Windsor | 10,005 | 20 | 20.0 | 3 |
| Sun Prairie | 39,253 | 264 | 67.3 | 6 |
| Waunakee | 16,363 | 101 | 61.7 | 6 |
| Middleton | 22,566 | 313 | 138.7 | 12 |
| Fitchburg | 34,357 | 398 | 115.8 | 17 |
| Verona | 16,825 | 246 | 146.2 | 19 |
Distance, income, and the wage floor around DeForest
Madison, WI lies 11 miles from DeForest, close enough that appraisers price the lease against Madison, WI rents while 12,260 residents set the revenue ceiling. At $106,223 median household income, the elective and cash-pay share of a projection is the line that gets tested first. Referral flow comes from outside DeForest, which a projection needs to state plainly.
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Questions from DeForest
01How many providers practice in DeForest, and in what?
NPPES lists 43 providers at a DeForest practice address, 35.1 per 10,000 residents across 14 tracked fields. Physical, occupational, and speech therapy accounts for 17 of them, 40 percent of the total, with primary care and family medicine next at 7. Read that as clinicians: 43 enumerations, not 43 owners.
02What does Dane County's shortage designation change?
HRSA designates Dane County for primary care, dental, mental health. That opens loan repayment programs for clinicians recruited into DeForest and evidences a staffing ramp in a 12,260 resident market.
03Is DeForest underwritten as part of Madison, WI?
Partly. Madison, WI is 11 miles out, so rent and equipment comparables travel in from there while patients still come from the 12,260 residents around DeForest. Cost side metro, revenue side local.
04What does a $106,223 median income mean for case acceptance?
Median household income in DeForest runs $106,223. 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.
05What does SBA lending look like around DeForest?
$5,021,000 went to healthcare borrowers in Dane County across 14 approvals, $358,643 on average. Deals near DeForest get sized against that record before anything else.
06Is there local lending capacity in Dane County?
County Business Patterns records 299 credit intermediation establishments in Dane County. That is the local origination bench, and it decides whether a file gets underwritten by somebody who has seen DeForest rents and resale before or by somebody working from a screen.
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
- 4U.S. Small Business Administration, 7(a) and 504 approvals
- 5CMS Care Compare provider datasets
- 6U.S. Census Bureau, County Business Patterns 2022
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