Urgent care clinics operate at the intersection of speed and volume — you need to be staffed, stocked, and equipped to handle anything that walks through the door. Between X-ray machines, lab equipment, and the working capital to run a high-volume walk-in operation — urgent care centers need reliable funding.
Larger lines available when revenue, cash flow, and story qualify.
This Is Why You're Here
You're opening a second urgent care location. Build-out, equipment, and 3 months of operating capital total $250K. The lease is signed and construction starts in 4 weeks.
Your point-of-care lab equipment needs upgrading — CBC analyzer, metabolic panel, and rapid testing devices total $65K. Your current equipment is slow and missing diagnoses.
Flu season hit and patient volume doubled. You need $30K for additional staff, rapid test kits, and extended hours. Revenue will cover it in 6 weeks but expenses are now.
Your X-ray machine went down on a Monday morning and repairs take 3 weeks. You're sending fracture patients to the ER — losing $4K a day in imaging revenue. A replacement unit is $75K and you need it yesterday.
You landed a contract with a local employer for occupational health screenings — 500 employees over 3 months. You need $20K for drug testing equipment, a part-time PA, and DOT physical supplies before the first employee walks in.
We needed $250K for our second urgent care location — build-out, lab equipment, and 3 months of working capital. Basecamp packaged an SBA loan with equipment financing and had us funded in 4 weeks.
Dr. Omar F., Urgent Care Medical Director, Atlanta, GA
Urgent Care Financing
Slide the calculator to see your estimated approval range. Then answer 3 quick questions to lock it in. No documents needed. Soft-pull pre-qual.
Built for Your Business
No appointments needed. Patients walk in and pay. Our lenders love urgent care's same-day revenue model. It makes you one of the easiest healthcare businesses to fund.
CBC analyzers, metabolic panels, rapid strep and flu tests — $40K-$65K in point-of-care lab equipment. We fund it in days because the equipment is the collateral.
Flu season doubles your volume. You need temp staff, rapid test kits, and extended hours. Working capital in 24 hours covers the surge so you don't turn patients away.
Build-out, equipment, lab setup, working capital — $200K-$400K total. We package equipment financing with working capital, adding SBA 504 if you're buying the building. Your first location's track record makes the second one easy to fund.
Bobby's Take
Most urgent care operators are evaluated by banks the same way a retail shop is — top-line revenue, profit margin, two years of returns. What banks miss is that extended-hours walk-in volume plus lab-and-imaging ancillary revenue generates predictable cash flow that doesn't show up in P&L the way bankers expect. The specialists who fund urgent care clinics know to read your patient-per-hour throughput and ancillary revenue mix. Here's how to position your transaction so the right lenders see it first.
Three things determine whether an urgent care transaction closes: monthly visit volume, per-visit reimbursement averages across payers, and ancillary revenue (in-office labs, X-ray, occupational medicine contracts). Not your personal FICO. Not your time in practice. Specialist urgent care lenders care about whether monthly blended visit and ancillary revenue supports a $5,000-$10,000/month payment — and whether occupational-medicine or employer contracts give the file a recurring-revenue floor.
The biggest mistake urgent care operators make: applying without separating walk-in patient revenue from occupational-medicine and employer-contract revenue. The lender sees mixed deposits and prices to the variability of walk-in volume. The fix: separate occupational and employer revenue from walk-in revenue. Specialist urgent care lenders price occupational and employer contracts as recurring contracted revenue. Generalist lenders treat all visit revenue as walk-in transactional.
visit revenue lost on a delayed second-clinic opening
Where this gets interesting at scale: an urgent care operator opening a second clinic or adding occupational-medicine capacity doesn't need ONE loan. They need a revenue-based term loan against existing clinic cash flow to cover the buildout + equipment financing for the X-ray and lab equipment + a working capital line for credentialing-period payroll + sometimes equipment financing for occupational-medicine drug-screen and audiometry equipment. Four products, multiple lenders, one application — that's how single-clinic urgent care operators scale into multi-clinic urgent care brands.
The urgent care operators who scale fastest aren't the ones who waited until the first clinic's collection rate was perfect. They're the ones who had the second clinic site signed and the equipment ordered while the first was still in its growth ramp. Every quarter you delay opening the next clinic is $80,000-$160,000 in monthly visit revenue you don't capture. Run the numbers in 60 seconds — see what 70+ specialist lenders will offer your urgent care business this week.
💡Bottom line:
Urgent care operators get priced on walk-in variability when occupational-medicine and employer contracts are recurring contracted revenue. Separate the lines — a specialist prices the contracts as the floor.
Bobby Friel
Founder, Basecamp Funding
What You're Up Against
| Challenge | What It Looks Like | Funding Solution | Amount | Speed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Point-of-care lab equipment | CBC, metabolic panel, urinalysis — in-house results in 15 min | Equipment Financing | $40K–$100K | 3–5 days |
| Second location launch | New urgent care in underserved area, buildout + staffing | Capital Stack (equipment + working capital, plus 504 if buying the building) | $200K–$500K | 21–30 days |
| Digital X-ray system | Adding X-ray capability to reduce referrals | Equipment Financing | $50K–$120K | 3–5 days |
| Weekend/evening staffing | Extending hours needs 4 additional providers and staff | Working Capital | $30K–$80K | 1–3 days |
| Insurance credentialing gap | Credentialing takes 90 days, seeing patients at self-pay rates | Working Capital | $25K–$60K | 1–3 days |
Pricing Transparency
| Product | Amount | Term | Best For | Funding Speed | Typical Structure |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Practice Working Capital | $25K-$2M | 6mo-3yr | Insurance reimbursement bridge, payroll, supplies | 1-3 days | Often unsecured, daily/weekly ACH |
| Medical Equipment Financing | $10K-$10M | 3-7yr | Imaging, dental chairs, exam suites, lab equipment | 3-7 days | Equipment serves as collateral, low or no down payment |
| Practice Acquisition Loan | $100K-$10M | 5-15yr | Buying into a practice, partner buyout, second location | 30-60 days | SBA-backed, PG required, lower rates |
| Business Line of Credit | $25K-$5M | Revolving | Ongoing supplies, staffing, operational swings | 1-5 days | PG common, draw as needed |
| SBA 7(a) for Healthcare | $50K-$5M | 10-25yr | Buildout, expansion, partner buy-in, long-term growth | 30-60 days | PG required, lowest rates, longest terms |
Rates and terms depend on credit, revenue, time in business, and lender. Every business is unique — see what 70+ lenders will offer you in 60 seconds. Soft-pull pre-qual.
These are industry averages. Your actual rate depends on your revenue, credit profile, and time in business — it could be lower. Run your specific numbers in 30 seconds.
Calculate Your Real Cost →Tax Strategy
| Equipment | Cost | Tax Rate | Deduction | Tax Savings | Net Cost |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Digital X-ray system | $85,000 | 40% | $85,000 | $34,000 | $51,000 |
| Lab analyzer | $45,000 | 35% | $45,000 | $15,750 | $29,250 |
| Patient monitoring | $22,000 | 35% | $22,000 | $7,700 | $14,300 |
Finance the equipment. Keep your cash. Take the deduction. Your digital x-ray system costs $51,000 after taxes and you never touched your reserves.

Bobby Friel
Founder, Basecamp Funding
How It Works
No paperwork avalanche. No bank lobby. No guessing.
Tell us about your practice, specialty, and monthly receipts. No HIPAA-sensitive uploads.
We screen options with no impact on personal FICO or practice commercial credit.
70+ lenders who fund dentists, primary care, vets, and specialty practices review your file in parallel.
Your funding specialist walks through equipment finance, working capital, and SBA structures with full transparency.
E-signature. Capital lands in time to install equipment, hire staff, or cover the insurance reimbursement gap.
Urgent Care Capital Uses
Buy an existing practice. Dental, medical, vet, chiropractic. Term loans + equipment financing + working capital stacked. Revenue-based underwriting through 70+ specialty lenders.
Lasers, imaging machines, dental chairs, surgical tools. Equipment financing with the device as collateral.
Cover payroll during reimbursement delays. Hire hygienists, techs, front desk staff. Retain your best people.
New exam rooms, waiting room remodel, second location buildout. Create the space your patients deserve.
Electronic health records, practice management, telehealth platforms, patient portals.
Google Ads, patient acquisition, website redesign, reputation management. Fill your schedule.
Full Transparency
Most lenders won't tell you this upfront. We will.
Need commercial insurance for your urgent care business?
Practice insurance — malpractice, general liability, property — is required before most equipment financing closes. InsuranceService365.com covers healthcare practices across 29 states.
Insurance reimbursement runs 30-60 days behind the procedure. The practices that grow steadily are the ones that pre-qualified BEFORE they needed to bridge the gap. By the time payroll is tight or the imaging machine is past warranty, underwriting is harder. Pre-qualify when the schedule is full — that's when lenders are most generous.
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Learn More →FAQs
Urgent care is a volume business. You see 40-80 patients a day and every one of them needs to be triaged, tested, and treated fast. That means your X-ray machine can't be down. Your lab analyzers have to work. And when flu season doubles your volume overnight, you need $30K for temp staff and rapid test kits yesterday. Not in 2 weeks.
We funded an operator in Atlanta $250K for a second location — build-out, X-ray, point-of-care lab, everything. Packaged equipment financing with working capital, plus SBA 504 for the building. He opened in 6 weeks. Did $180K in revenue month one. And that's the thing about urgent care — the demand is already there. Walk-in traffic means immediate revenue. Our lenders love that model. New locations, equipment upgrades, seasonal surges — one app, 60 seconds, offers in hours.
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