INDUSTRY SOLUTIONS
Funding Built for Healthcare & Travel-Nurse Staffing
You pay your clinicians every week, and front their housing and travel stipends, while the hospital pays you on net-45 or net-60. We give healthcare and travel-nurse staffing agencies fast, flexible working capital so making Friday's payroll never comes down to which invoices have cleared.
Soft credit pull, won't affect your score. No obligation.
Funding Amounts
$10,000 – $500,000
Approval Speed
4 – 8 hours
Credit
All credit profiles considered
Use
Weekly payroll, stipends, credentialing, growth & more
THE CHALLENGE
You Pay Weekly. The Hospital Pays in 45 to 60 Days.
Healthcare and travel-nurse staffing is a high-demand business with a punishing cash-flow shape: you carry a full clinical pay package now and collect 45 to 60 days later, you spend to credential and license a clinician weeks before the first billable hour, and a Managed Service Provider sits between you and the hospital, stretching the billing cycle. In the Federal Reserve's 2024 Small Business Credit Survey, the most common reasons firms sought financing were to meet operating expenses and to expand, and for a staffing agency that gap has a very specific shape. Here's where the cash gets stuck.
You front the whole pay package weeks before you collect
Travel and per-diem clinicians are paid weekly, and a travel package is not just wages. You front tax-free housing and meals stipends that hit the clinician's first weekly check, often before you've billed a single hour. Meanwhile the receivable sits behind a hospital or health system that pays on net-30 to net-60 terms, 45 to 60 days being typical. So you carry a full clinical pay package every week and wait a month and a half or more to collect, a wider, more rigid gap than most staffing verticals ever face. Registered nurses earn a median wage of $93,600 a year, licensed practical and vocational nurses $62,340, and nursing assistants $39,530 (Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2024). Those wages go out weekly. The invoice clears on the hospital's schedule.
An MSP and VMS sit between you and the bill
Most large contracts route through a Managed Service Provider (MSP) running a Vendor Management System (VMS): the software and middle layer the hospital uses to manage its staffing vendors. That layer lengthens the approval and billing cycle and skims a fee off the bill rate, so the headline rate is thinner by the time it reaches you, and the wait to get paid is longer. You are collecting on a narrower net of the bill rate, later, with an intermediary in the middle of every timecard.
You pay to onboard a clinician before they bill an hour
Healthcare staffing is a regulated placement business. Before a nurse or allied clinician works one billable shift, you complete credentialing: primary-source verification of license and certification, background checks, and healthcare-sanctions screening. Under the Joint Commission's Health Care Staffing Services certification, the certified firm itself is responsible for completing that verification for every clinical staffer it places, primary-source verification is the organization's responsibility, not the individual's. That is real cash and staff time spent up front, per clinician, weeks to months before a placement generates a dollar. Growth makes it worse: a big new hospital contract means a wave of credentialing spend before the first invoice goes out.
Every new state is paperwork, fees, and insurance funded up front
Travel placement spans state lines. Nurses practice across Nurse Licensure Compact (NLC) jurisdictions on a multistate license, 43 jurisdictions, 41 states plus 2 territories, have enacted the compact as of 2026 (NCSBN). But a clinician placed in a non-compact state must obtain and pay for additional state licenses, application fees, and renewals before the contract can start. Separately, about two dozen states plus the District of Columbia require the staffing agency itself to hold a state license or registration, typically also carrying professional liability insurance, to place healthcare workers. Each new market you expand into is capital tied up before that market produces revenue.
Demand is high, but the timing gap is the binding constraint
The work is there. Registered nurse employment is projected to grow 5 percent from 2024 to 2034, with about 189,100 openings a year on average over the decade (Bureau of Labor Statistics), and healthcare staffing is about 8 percent of a U.S. staffing industry that placed nearly 2.2 million temporary and contract employees in an average week in 2024 (American Staffing Association). Your balance sheet is receivables and people, asset-light, with no equipment or hard collateral for a bank to lean on. Margins are thin, so the constraint isn't whether you're profitable, it's whether you have the cash to fund next Friday's payroll while last month's invoices sit unpaid.
Clinician payroll is due Friday. The hospital invoices behind it are sitting with an MSP on their own timetable. And the bank's answer, an SBA loan, takes 30 to 90 days and often approves less than the amount requested. Those three clocks never line up on their own. Our working capital lines them up: funded in days, built around how a healthcare staffing agency actually gets paid.
How Healthcare Staffing Agencies Use Our Funding
Make Weekly Payroll
Pay your travel and per-diem clinicians on time, every week, while the hospital or health system works through its net-45 or net-60 terms.
Front Housing & Stipends
Cover the tax-free housing and meals stipends that hit a traveler's first weekly check, often before you've billed a single hour of the assignment.
Carry Credentialing Costs
Fund the background checks, sanctions screening, and primary-source license verification you pay for weeks before a clinician works one billable shift.
Expand Into New States
Cover the non-compact state licenses, agency registration, insurance, and lead time it takes to place clinicians in a new market before it produces revenue.
Ramp a New Contract
Win a big hospital or health-system contract and fund the wave of recruiting and credentialing spend that lands before the first invoice does.
Bridge MSP/VMS Invoices
Keep payroll and operating costs covered while receivables routed through a Managed Service Provider and its Vendor Management System work through a longer billing cycle.
One Application. We Match You to the Funding That Fits.
Most agencies we fund use working capital they can put toward anything. You don't need to know which product you want, apply once and we'll match you to what you qualify for.
Working Capital
Flexible funding for Friday's payroll, fronted stipends, credentialing, multistate licensing, or a new-contract ramp. Put it toward whatever the next placement needs. This is where most agencies start.
Learn MoreAR / Invoice Factoring
Advance cash against your approved hospital and health-system invoices instead of waiting on net-45 or net-60 terms. It scales as your billings grow and turns receivables into payroll you can run today.
Learn MoreBusiness Line of Credit
Revolving cash you draw on as each weekly payroll comes due, then repay as the hospital invoices clear. Interest applies only to what you actually use, built for the draw-now, collect-later rhythm.
Learn MoreBusiness Loans
Lump-sum capital for a bigger move: a new branch, a multistate expansion, or a full ramp into a large new health-system contract, on a longer, structured term.
Learn MoreSBA Loans
Government-backed funding with longer terms and competitive rates for larger, planned investments, when you have time for a more involved process.
Learn MoreRevenue-Based Financing
Funding with repayment that flexes with your billings, easing off when a contract winds down instead of holding a fixed payment.
Learn MoreWhy Healthcare Staffing Agencies Choose Us
We've funded staffing businesses that live and die by payroll timing, from lean agencies placing a handful of travelers to operations running clinical contracts across multiple states and health systems. We know your money goes out every week, and comes back on the hospital's schedule.
Fast, flexible working capital is built for that reality. We know the weekly-payroll-against-net-60 gap, the stipends and credentialing you front before billing, and what it takes to ramp a new contract or a new state without floating it all yourself. And we keep you in control, we fund your agency, we don't take over your billing.
See What You Qualify For- We understand weekly payroll against net-45/60 receivables
- Funding fast enough to cover Friday's clinician payroll
- Cover fronted stipends, credentialing, and multistate licensing
- Advance against MSP/VMS-mediated hospital invoices
- Approval in 4 – 8 hours, not weeks
- All credit profiles considered
Simple Requirements to Get Started
If your staffing agency has been operating for at least 6 months and generates $10,000 or more in monthly revenue, you're likely a fit.
6+ Months
In Business
$10K+
Monthly Revenue
All Credit
Profiles Welcome
See What You Qualify For
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Healthcare Staffing Funding FAQs
Can I get funding to make weekly nurse payroll while my hospital clients pay on net-45 or net-60?
Yes, this is the most common reason healthcare and travel-nurse staffing agencies come to us. Your clinicians are paid weekly, but the hospital or health system pays your invoices on net-30 to net-60 terms, often 45 to 60 days. Working capital advances you the cash now so payroll is covered while those receivables clear, and you repay as the money comes in.
How does invoice factoring work for a healthcare or travel-nurse staffing agency?
Factoring advances cash against your approved, creditworthy hospital and health-system invoices instead of making you wait the full net-45 or net-60 to collect. Your clinical receivables are high-value and owed by institutional payers, which makes them strong collateral, and the advance scales as your billings grow. It's a natural fit for the gap between weekly payroll out and hospital collections in. You apply once and we'll match you to working capital, factoring, or both, based on what fits.
Will you advance against invoices that are routed through an MSP or VMS?
In healthcare staffing, many contracts run through a Managed Service Provider (MSP) using a Vendor Management System (VMS), which lengthens the billing and approval cycle. We work with agencies whose receivables are mediated that way. Apply and we'll review how your invoices are billed and approved, then match you to the funding that fits your collection cycle.
Can funding cover the housing and travel stipends I have to front before I've billed a single hour?
Yes. A travel package isn't just wages, it's the tax-free housing and meals stipends that hit a traveler's first weekly check, often before you've billed an hour of the assignment. Working capital covers the full clinical pay package, stipends included, so you're not floating it out of your own balance while you wait on the hospital invoice.
Do you fund credentialing, background checks, and primary-source license verification I pay for before a clinician starts?
Yes, and this is exactly the kind of pre-billable spend factoring alone doesn't solve. Before a nurse or allied clinician can work one billable shift, you complete credentialing: primary-source verification of license and certification, background checks, and healthcare-sanctions screening. Under the Joint Commission's Health Care Staffing Services certification, the firm itself is responsible for completing that verification for every clinical staffer it places, weeks to months of cash and staff time spent up front, per clinician, before any revenue. Working capital funds that float.
Can I get working capital to ramp up for a big new hospital or health-system contract?
Yes. A large new contract means a wave of recruiting and credentialing spend before the first invoice ever goes out. Working capital or a business loan funds that ramp, so you can staff and credential to the contract instead of pacing your growth to whatever cash happens to be in the account.
I'm expanding into new states and need to cover licensing, agency registration, and insurance. Can funding help?
Yes. Travel placement spans state lines. Clinicians practice across Nurse Licensure Compact (NLC) jurisdictions on a multistate license, but a placement in a non-compact state means additional state licenses, application fees, and renewals paid up front. Separately, about two dozen states plus the District of Columbia require the staffing agency itself to hold a state license or registration to place healthcare workers, typically with professional liability insurance. Each new state is paperwork, fees, insurance, and lead time funded before that market produces revenue, and working capital is built to carry it.
Do you work with new or fast-growing agencies that banks turned down for thin margins or too many unpaid invoices?
Yes. Healthcare staffing is asset-light: your balance sheet is receivables and people, not equipment or hard collateral, which is exactly why banks underprice the segment. They see thin margins and unpaid invoices as risk. We look at your actual revenue and how you get paid, not just a credit score, and we consider all credit profiles. A growing agency can be profitable on paper and still be short the cash to fund next Friday's payroll while last month's invoices sit unpaid, that timing gap is what we fund.
How fast can I get funded, since payroll is due Friday?
Approval typically comes within 4 to 8 hours, with funds following shortly after. That speed is the main reason agency owners choose us over a bank or an SBA loan, where the same request can take 30 to 90 days, long after payroll was due.
Is this a loan against my business, or are you taking over my billing and collections?
It's funding for your business, and you keep control. We provide flexible working capital, and factoring against your invoices when it fits, so you can cover payroll, stipends, credentialing, and growth. We are not a billing or revenue-cycle-management company that files or collects your claims, and we don't take over your back office or your client relationships. How you bill and who you collect from stays with you.
What are the basic requirements for a healthcare staffing agency to qualify?
All credit profiles are considered. Most agencies we fund have been operating for at least 6 months and generate $10,000 or more in monthly revenue. Your billings and day-to-day performance matter more than a perfect credit score.
Do you finance patients or the hospital's bill, or only my agency's working capital?
Only your agency's working capital. Because this is healthcare, it's worth being clear: we fund the staffing business itself, the weekly clinician payroll, fronted stipends, credentialing, licensing, and growth. We do not offer consumer or patient financing, we do not finance the patients your clinicians treat, and we are not the hospital's bill. Our capital goes to your company so you can run your business while you wait to get paid.
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