Trusted by NPs building practices on their own terms

Build the practice you’ve always imagined.

“My name on the door. My patients know me. That’s what I went to school for.”

— Nicole, FNP

Kinstead helps nurse practitioners launch and grow independent practices with real support, not just software.

You own the practice — always · Insurance-covered from day one

Practices built with Kinstead

By the numbers

90 days0 days

To your first patient

From signed agreement to your first clinical visit

2–3×

Higher income potential

Compared to employed NP positions in hospital systems

35+0+

Practices launching with Kinstead

Across primary care, psychiatry, and integrative health

How it works

From signed to seeing patients in under 90 days.

We’ve built a repeatable system to get your practice credentialed, compliant, and growing faster than you could do it alone.

01 Build your brand

We help you create a practice identity that’s distinctly yours — your name, your specialty, your positioning. A real clinic with your vision at the center.

Practice name Brand identity Entity formation Business structure

Your practice brand

In progress

Your Practice Name

Primary Care · Your City

Brand colors

Business entity

Practice name

Brand identity

02 Get in-network

We handle all credentialing and payer enrollment on your behalf — CAQH, state licensing, insurance contracts. The painful part, done for you.

CAQH State licensing Payer contracts LLC formation

Enrollment tracker

3 / 5 done

CAQH profile

Verified

State license

Active

LLC formation

Filed

Payer contract — BCBS

In review

Payer contract — Aetna

Submitted

03 See patients

Your EHR, scheduling, billing, and growth playbook are ready before your first appointment. You focus entirely on clinical care. We handle the rest.

EHR setup Scheduling Billing Revenue cycle Growth strategy

Today's schedule

4 appointments

9:00 AM

Maria L.

New patient

10:30 AM

James T.

Follow-up

11:15 AM

Sandra K.

Annual visit

2:00 PM

David R.

New patient

Everything you’d otherwise have to figure out alone.

Running a practice is a full-time job on top of clinical care. We handle the operational layer completely so you never have to.

Business formation

Entity setup, professional corporation structure, registered agent, and the legal foundation — done right from the start.

Credentialing & licensing

State license verification, CAQH profile management, and ongoing re-credentialing as your practice grows.

Payer enrollment

We contract directly with commercial payers and Medicare/Medicaid on your behalf, getting you in-network faster than the DIY route.

Billing & revenue cycle

Clean claim submission, denial management, payment posting, and month-end reporting. Our average clean claim rate is 97%.

Scheduling & intake

Patient intake workflows, insurance verification, appointment reminders, and a scheduling system calibrated to your practice style.

Virtual front desk

Inbound call handling, appointment booking, and patient communications — so your patients always reach a real voice.

Compliance & risk

HIPAA compliance, credentialing audit trails, and proactive policy support as regulations evolve.

Growth & marketing

Local SEO, referral network development, panel growth strategy, and community outreach to fill your schedule with the right patients.

Practice operations

Ongoing operational support, performance reporting, payer mix optimization, and a dedicated team that knows your practice inside out.

Practice coaching

A dedicated operator in your corner — strategic guidance on pricing, hiring, panel management, and the everyday decisions that shape a sustainable practice.

You own the practice — always

Insurance-covered from day one

The system wasn’t built for this. We are.

More NPs want independence. More patients want personal care. The infrastructure to make it happen hasn’t existed — until now.

400K+

Nurse practitioners in the U.S.

The fastest-growing clinical workforce in American healthcare

70%

Report burnout in hospital systems

Loss of autonomy and administrative burden are the top drivers

94%

Patient satisfaction in NP-led care

Patients consistently rate NP visits as more personal and attentive

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Starting a practice has historically required a lawyer, a biller, a credentialing specialist, and years of patience. Kinstead compresses all of that into 90 days.

Founder stories

The NPs building practices patients wait for.

Real nurse practitioners who launched independent practices with Kinstead — in their words, and by the numbers.

“People really needed a little bit more time, more care — which was lacking in the current infrastructure.”

Your practice, your identity

Independent practices that look like no one else.

Every Kinstead practice is its own brand — named, designed, and positioned around the clinician who built it.

Heartland Family Care

Columbia, MD

“Community-based care, straight from the heart.”

Primary Care

Living Well Family Care

Beverly, MA

“Be Well. Live Well.”

Family Medicine

Arrowhead Mental Health

Frederick, MD

“Together towards your mental wellness.”

Psychiatry

Nova Vida Wellness

Silver Spring, MD

“Get the care you deserve.”

Women's Health

Balance: Restored & Nourished

South Shore, MA

“Helping young minds find balance.”

Psychiatry

Safe Space Primary Care

Baltimore, MD

“Care That Listens First.”

Primary Care

In their words

Hear it from the NPs.

Nurse practitioners from the Kinstead network on what independent practice actually looks like — unscripted, in their own words.

“Working with Kinstead has been a dream come true! I was initially skeptical—it almost sounded too good to be true—but they proved to be incredibly supportive and knowledgeable. With their help, I took my first steps toward opening my practice and felt supported every step of the way.”

Sophie Shi, NP

Safe Space Primary Care · Baltimore, MD

Linden Spital, NP

“I wanted to start a practice for several years; however, coordinating all of the necessary steps to launch a practice seemed to stop me from doing so. Kinstead respected my vision and brought everything to life.”

Meghan Doody, NP

“I had started an LLC and then got stuck. Kinstead has made the seemingly impossible, possible for me in starting a practice.”

Anthony Rodriguez, FNP

“I finally have a practice I’m proud of. Kinstead handled everything I was scared to do alone.”

Community & support

Independent. Not alone.

Every Kinstead NP is part of a real community of independent providers — people who understand the journey because they’re on it too. Whatever you’re navigating, you have people beside you.

Business questions, answered

Pricing your services. Hiring your first person. Understanding your numbers. Real operators who’ve built their own practices are one conversation away.

Clinical perspective when you need it

Edge cases, complex patients, moments of uncertainty. You don’t have to hold everything alone. You have peers you can actually call.

People who understand the journey

Other NPs building their own practices, navigating the same questions, celebrating the same wins. A community that gets it because they’re doing it too.

“Having other NPs to call — people who actually understand what building your own practice feels like — that changed everything for me.”

— Sophie Shi, NP · Independent practice owner

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See what you could make owning your own practice

Patients Per Day

12

Days Per Week

3

Monthly Rent

$1,000

No-Show Rate

10%

Common questions

The questions NPs ask us first.

Straight answers about states, timelines, ownership, and what it actually takes to get started.

Which states does Kinstead work in?

Massachusetts, Maryland, and Connecticut. We're currently accepting primary care and psychiatry nurse practitioners in all three, and we expect to open additional states as we grow.

How long does it take to open my practice?

About 90 days from signed agreement to your first patient visit. Credentialing and payer enrollment take the longest, so we start those immediately and run entity formation, branding, and EHR setup in parallel rather than one after another.

Do I need full practice authority to open a practice in my state?

Massachusetts, Maryland, and Connecticut all allow nurse practitioners to practice independently once they have completed their state's transition period — two years of supervised practice in Massachusetts, three years and 2,000 hours of collaboration in Connecticut, and an initial mentorship period in Maryland that applies only to newly certified NPs. Nurse practitioners with five or more years of experience have almost always cleared these thresholds already.

Who owns the practice?

You do, always. Your practice is independently owned and operated by you, under your name and your clinical judgment. Kinstead provides operational support — credentialing, billing, compliance, EHR, and growth — and does not own or control your practice.

Can I keep my current job while my practice gets set up?

Yes, and many nurse practitioners do. Credentialing and payer enrollment take 90 to 180 days and require very little of your time, so most NPs stay in their current role until their contracts are active and then transition into their own practice.

Ready to start

Start the practice you’ve been imagining.

Join the next generation of NP-led practices. We’ll handle the infrastructure — you bring the vision.

Currently accepting primary care and psychiatry NPs in Massachusetts, Maryland, and Connecticut.