A physical therapy practice in East Peoria is priced on adjusted seller’s discretionary earnings after a buyer compares this book to Peoria — not on a statewide rumor multiple. Illinois CBS-1 (10 business days). No Chicago 45-day city notice unless the business also operates in Chicago. The statewide physical therapy practices playbook is on the industry hub; this page is the East Peoria file. Confidential sale. No upfront listing fee.
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East Peoria market
Selling a physical therapy practice in East Peoria
A physical therapy practice in East Peoria is priced on adjusted seller’s discretionary earnings after a buyer compares this book to Peoria — not on a statewide rumor multiple. Illinois CBS-1 (10 business days). No Chicago 45-day city notice unless the business also operates in Chicago. The statewide physical therapy practices playbook is on the industry hub; this page is the East Peoria file.
East Peoria is the Tazewell river city facing Peoria — Caterpillar’s historic East Peoria works, I-74, and a hillside commercial strip, not Pekin’s county seat and not Morton’s village campus.
CAT-adjacent concentration is the first recast question. Bass Pro / riverfront hospitality is a different file from a Fon du Lac Drive shop. Cross-river labor with Peoria is normal. Buyers often underwrite East Peoria and Peoria as one MSA and still want this city’s licenses named.
East Peoria has about 22,638 residents in Tazewell County, inside the Peoria area. Nearby markets buyers already compare this book to include Peoria, Pekin, Washington, Morton. That comparison changes who shows up: a buyer who will drive from Peoria is not the same buyer who will fly in from a coastal platform.
Planning facts
Typical multiple
4x–7x EBITDA
Typical timeline
6–15 months
SBA eligible
Often — confirm
County
Tazewell County
Population
22,638
Metro
Peoria
Nearby comps
Peoria, Pekin, Washington, Morton
Closing clock
Illinois CBS-1 (10 business days). No Chicago 45-day city notice unless the business also operates in Chicago
Springfield, Bloomington-Normal, Decatur, and nearby county seats sell to operators who already know the trade area. State-vendor and campus calendars matter on some books.
File CBS-1 on time. Do not paste a Naperville multiple onto a Sangamon or McLean file.
East Peoria demand for physical therapy practices is the customer list and the license path — not the Census population figure. About 22,638 residents is context for who already lives in the trade area. It is not a sale price.
Physical Therapy Practice in East Peoria
What a East Peoria buyer will underwrite on this physical therapy practice
A physical therapy practice in East Peoria is a personal license plus a panel that will still drive here after the seller leaves. Parking, payer mix, and who can own the clinical entity are Illinois rules; the trade area is East Peoria versus Peoria, Pekin, Washington. We will not invent a ZIP premium.
Physical Therapy Practices statewide typically plan around 4x–7x EBITDA and a 6–15 months process when books and the lease are ready. That is a planning range, not a price for this East Peoria shop. Buyers here usually argue payer mix, patient volume, referral source diversity, licensed pt count.
Closing clock for this East Peoria file: Illinois CBS-1 (10 business days). No Chicago 45-day city notice unless the business also operates in Chicago. License path: IDFPR physical-therapist licenses are personal. The industry hub teaches the statewide rule. This URL is the East Peoria application of it.
East Peoria is a regional market. The first serious call is often an owner-operator from Peoria, Pekin, Washington, not a platform that needs $2 million of earnings to pay for diligence. SBA 7(a) and seller financing usually matter more here than a headline multiple.
Buyer pool
Who buys a physical therapy practice in East Peoria
Peoria-MSA operators. Morton’s corporate and food-processing orbit can attract strategics.
Illustration: a two-clinic orthopedic PT practice in the western suburbs with a selling clinical director, two employed PTs, and 40 percent of referrals from a single sports-medicine group. Not a closed sale.
A physical therapy practice whose customers already sit in Peoria, Pekin, Washington, Morton is a larger business than one that stops at the East Peoria city limit. Tell the truth about the route. Buyers will map it.
SDE recast
How a buyer will read the books on this East Peoria physical therapy practice
PT buyers recast visits and therapist productivity after a market-rate clinical director. Pull the selling PT’s evaluation volume if they are leaving, and isolate any employer or IME contract that is personal. Medicare cap and modifier discipline belongs in the recast, not in a footnote. A 4x–7x EBITDA band assumes referrals survive the name on the door.
Illustration only — not a quote for any East Peoria shop. A physical therapy practice whose tax return shows $280,000 of net profit is not worth $280,000 × a rumor multiple.
Add back the owner’s $125,000 W-2 and payroll tax, $9,500 of discretionary benefits, $8,500 of accepted one-time cost, and $9,500 of personal expenses that a buyer will not run. Then subtract $22,000 of replacement labor if the owner still diagnoses, sells, or closes the books.
Adjusted seller’s discretionary earnings are $410,000. At the planning range 4.0x–7.0x, enterprise value is $1,640,000 to $2,870,000. Mid-range 5.50x is $2,255,000 before debt, working capital, holdback, and tax. A East Peoria buyer will argue the multiple after they ride with the staff and read the lease.
At 5.50 times $410,000 of seller’s discretionary earnings, enterprise value is $2,255,000 before debt, working capital, holdback, and tax. That is the planning conversation. It is not a listing-site guess.
SDE line items
Reported net profit (tax return, not the marketing P&L)
+ Interest expense
+ Income taxes (not payroll, sales, or property tax)
+ Depreciation and amortization
+ Owner W-2, bonuses, and payroll taxes on the owner
+ Discretionary owner benefits that a buyer will not keep (auto, personal travel, family on payroll with no role)
+ Accepted one-time or non-recurring expenses
− Market-rate replacement labor for owner work that will not transfer
= Seller’s Discretionary Earnings (SDE)
Illustration recast for a East Peoria physical therapy practice — not a quote
Net profit
$280,000
Owner W-2
$125,000
Benefits
$9,500
One-time
$8,500
Personal
$9,500
Replacement labor (subtract)
−$22,000
Recast SDE
$410,000
Planning EV at 5.50x
$2,255,000
Recast Seller’s Discretionary Earnings, then apply a planning multiple for physical therapy practices.
Replacement labor is subtracted. This is a planning tool, not an appraisal.
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This is an estimate for planning purposes only. Actual value depends on lease terms, asset quality, customer concentration, and current market conditions. Request a professional valuation for a precise number.
Tazewell (Pekin, East Peoria, Morton, Washington) uses state CBS-1 and village licenses. East Peoria industrial and Morton corporate-adjacent businesses need landlord and environmental extras.
IDFPR physical-therapist licenses are personal. Clinic ownership and use of “physical therapy” in the trade name are regulated. Medicare and commercial enrollments are change-of-ownership filings. Illinois direct-access rules still leave a referral-heavy book in many orthopedic corridors. The clinic’s IDFPR and payor numbers do not automatically follow the assets.
Labor and lease
What has to keep working on Monday after close in East Peoria
For a physical therapy practice in East Peoria, the first labor question is: Referral diversity beyond one surgeon.
Cross-river labor with Peoria. A Pekin retail book is not a Morton industrial-service book.
Peoria MSA south and east bank. Price by customer, not by county line.
Diligence
What a serious physical therapy practice buyer will open
Levers that move the multiple in this vertical: Referral diversity beyond one surgeon; Staying licensed PTs and a non-seller clinical lead; Clean Medicare and commercial billing file; Visit productivity a platform will not immediately cut; Lease economics on a high-build-out clinic.
Have these ready before anyone hears the name of the East Peoria business: Visits per therapist per day and cancellation/no-show rates; Referral-source concentration (one surgeon vs a panel); Payer mix, Medicare share, and any audit history; Licensed PT vs PTA mix and who is staying; Lease, build-out, and equipment (tables, modalities, gym); Employer, cash-pay, or wellness add-ons that are real contracts.
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Sale steps
How to prepare a East Peoria physical therapy practice for sale
Recast this East Peoria physical therapy practice. Start with the tax return. Add owner pay. Subtract replacement labor if the seller still does the work a East Peoria buyer must hire. Do not treat a spike year as the new normal.
Name who can operate on Monday. List every credential that lets this physical therapy practice pull a permit or see a patient in East Peoria, and whether that person stays. Personal licenses do not transfer with the assets.
Tell the truth about the East Peoria trade area. Map customers against neighboring towns. Buyers will. A book that already covers those towns is larger than a book that stops at the East Peoria limit.
Open the lease and the labor file. Remaining term and assignment in Tazewell County. Whether the crew can run without the seller living eight minutes away.
Calendar the notices that apply here. Illinois CBS-1 (10 business days). No Chicago 45-day city notice unless the business also operates in Chicago. Start them at letter of intent, not the week of funding.
Read the statewide playbook, then talk. The Illinois physical therapy practices hub is the statute and recast teaching. This page is the East Peoria file. Confidential consult — no upfront listing fee.
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Questions about physical therapy practices in East Peoria
Answers for owners and buyers in Tazewell County, including local closing steps.
Illinois physical therapy practices typically sell for 4x–7x EBITDA. Payer mix, patient volume, referral source diversity, and licensed therapist count are the primary value drivers.
Buyers include PE-backed PT platforms, hospital systems, larger independent PT groups, and individual licensed therapists. PE consolidation in physical therapy has been especially active over the past five years.
Heavy dependence on one or two referring physicians is a risk factor for buyers. Practices with diversified referral bases — multiple physicians, PCP networks, and direct-access patients — are worth more.
Yes. Physical therapy practices are SBA-eligible businesses. Individual buyers frequently use SBA 7(a) financing for acquisitions.
Most PT transitions include 30–90 days of active involvement by the selling therapist to support referral relationship continuity. Longer transitions are sometimes structured for practices with complex referral networks.
Most East Peoria asset sales file Illinois Form CBS-1 at least 10 business days before closing. Tazewell County does not use Chicago’s 45-day city notice unless the business also operates there. Municipal licenses and the lease still need their own calendar.
The first serious call in East Peoria is usually an owner-operator or a neighboring shop, not a coastal fund. Tazewell County buyers already know the trade area. Seller financing and a clean lease matter more than a headline multiple.
No. The planning multiple for physical therapy practices is a statewide starting point, not a East Peoria appraisal. Buyers in Tazewell County still adjust seller’s discretionary earnings, then argue the lease, licenses, labor, and owner dependency.
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