Build the practice you’ve always imagined.
“My name on the door. My patients know me. That’s what I went to school for.”
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 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+
Practices launching with Kinstead
Across primary care, psychiatry, and integrative health
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.
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.
Get in-network
We handle all credentialing and payer enrollment on your behalf — CAQH, state licensing, insurance contracts. The painful part, done for you.
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.
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.
We handle all of this from day one —
so you never have to learn it alone.
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
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.
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.”
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. These are real practices run by real NPs.
Heartland Family Care
Columbia, MD
“Community-based care, straight from the heart.”
Living Well Family Care
Beverly, MA
“Be Well. Live Well.”
Arrowhead Mental Health
Frederick, MD
“Together towards your mental wellness.”
Nova Vida Wellness
Silver Spring, MD
“Get the care you deserve.”
Balance: Restored & Nourished
South Shore, MA
“Helping young minds find balance.”
Safe Space Primary Care
Baltimore, MD
“Care That Listens First.”
Hear it from the NPs.
Nurse practitioners from the Kinstead network on what independent practice actually looks like — unscripted, in their own words.
Meet the practices in the networkThe NPs who made the leap.
Real nurse practitioners running real independent practices.
“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
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.
NP Practice Owner Income Calculator
See what you could make owning your own practice
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.
Start the practice you’ve been imagining.
Join the next generation of NP-led practices. We’ll handle the infrastructure — you bring the vision.
- You own the practice — always
- Insurance-covered from day one
Currently accepting primary care and psychiatry NPs in Massachusetts, Maryland, and Connecticut.