Compare the work, customers, operating requirements, and documents behind each business. Choose the model you can credibly deliver before choosing equipment or branding.
A Wisconsin Community-Based Residential Facility (CBRF) is a licensed assisted living home where 5 or more unrelated adults live and receive room and board, supervision and support services, with no more than 3 hours of nursing care per resident per week.
Read the business guideService scope, state and payer routes, workforce, visits, EVV, wage controls, safety, continuity, pricing, and quality.
Read the business guideThe current CMS enrollment moratorium, state licensure, clinical governance, certification, patient acceptance, billing, QAPI, and survey readiness.
Read the business guideHousing model, competitive funding, property, civil rights, admissions, supportive services, budget, safety, and outcomes.
Read the business guideProduct and payer route, location, enrollment, licenses, accreditation, bond, orders, inventory, delivery, billing, and revalidation.
Read the business guideClient contracts, agency registration, worker credentialing, host safety duties, scheduling, payroll, margin, incidents, and renewals.
Read the business guideCollection versus testing, professional scope, lab contracts, exposure controls, patient identity, specimen integrity, transport, and pricing.
Read the business guideResident and capacity classification, state route, property approval, resident rights, staffing, operations, economics, and inspection readiness.
Read the business guideProgram classification, regulators, property and life safety, person-centered services, staffing, medication, finances, and pre-opening review.
Read the business guideRecovery level, certification, fair housing, ethical admissions, resident rights, treatment boundary, economics, safety, and outcomes.
Read the business guidePrivate housing versus custodial contracts, procurement, property, admissions, services, resident rights, security, economics, and outcomes.
Read the business guideLocal property classification, occupancy, fire and building review, fair screening, leasing, shared-house operations, economics, and renewals.
Read the business guideCommunity-care operations, property, staffing, participants, transportation, payers, economics, quality, and survey readiness.
Read the business guideActive CMS enrollment gate, licensure, certification, clinical governance, eligibility, workforce, billing, QAPI, and survey readiness.
Read the business guideTransparent compensation, provider verification, consent, privacy, fair recommendations, introductions, economics, and complaint control.
Read the business guideOwnership, clinical authority, pharmacy and drug controls, patient safety, truthful marketing, service economics, and quality.
Read the business guideOwnership, clinician authority, child-centered assessment, treatment planning, supervision, credentialing, billing integrity, safety, and outcomes.
Read the business guideService model, professional scope, crisis coverage, privacy, payer enrollment, clinical governance, access, quality, and sustainable operations.
Read the business guideTest menu, CLIA certificate type, laboratory director, state requirements, specimen controls, quality systems, reporting, and billing.
Read the business guidePT, OT, and SLP scope, ownership, enrollment, referrals, plans of care, documentation, staffing, billing, outcomes, and survey readiness.
Read the business guideAn IV hydration business sells elective intravenous fluids and vitamin infusions from a storefront drip bar, a mobile unit, or both.
Read the business guideAn independent pharmacy is a locally owned community (retail) pharmacy that fills prescriptions, counsels patients, and sells over-the-counter and front-store products, often adding immunizations, compliance packaging, delivery or compounding.
Read the business guideA medical waste business collects regulated medical waste (sharps, red-bag waste, pathological and some trace-chemo waste) from clinics, dental and veterinary offices, dialysis centers, tattoo studios, labs and long-term care, then delivers it to a permitted treatment or disposal facility and gives the generator a document proving it was handled legally.
Read the business guideTwo businesses in the same category can have very different labor needs, collection times, licensing burdens, and repeat-customer patterns. Use the business viability worksheet to compare your own assumptions.