FQHC Margin Calculator
SoundBridge Health · for health-center finance teams

What does a treated patient leave your health center?

Move any assumption and see what the center keeps per treated patient, and how much room each number has. Starting values are planning assumptions, not a quote. Replace them with your own.

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What the center collects

Payment is the second gate after scope of practice. Prepaid or unpaid means the license is not covered by collections.

What SBH and the program cost per patient

Who delivers the sessions

What the center needs to see

Center keeps per patient

Where one patient's collections go

How much room each lever has

Room is the cushion before the center falls to the hurdle margin. Positive means you can move that lever that far; negative means it is already past.

Net per patient across SBH fee levels

Over a year

How to read this page

  • This is an illustrative planning tool, not a quote, a guarantee of results or a billing opinion.
  • The license fee, consultant, supervision, staff cost and spare-hours values are SBH planning assumptions. Replace each with your own figure.
  • Spare hours count only after a time study or your own confirmation. Leave them at zero until then.
  • Collections depend on your payer contracts and on meeting each billing code’s requirements. The center bills; SBH submits no claims.
  • Not legal or financial advice. Regulatory questions go to your counsel.