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# Start Your Own Practice | Nurse Practitioner | Maryland | Fall 2026 at Kinstead

- **Company:** Kinstead
- **Location:** Baltimore, MD
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** hybrid
- **Posted:** 2026-10-12
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-27
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/kinsteadhealth/841b2a79-406c-4904-be26-c92371cf201e

## Job description

You’ve dedicated years to caring for patients. What if you could build a practice that reflects how you want to care for them? Kinstead helps experienced Nurse Practitioners across Maryland open independent practices of their own, with the support to make the process easier and more manageable. This isn’t a traditional NP job. You’ll own your practice, choose the patients you want to serve, and have control over your schedule. We’ll help put the infrastructure in place so you can focus on providing care. Create a practice that fits your life Maybe you want more time with each patient. Maybe you're looking for greater flexibility, more control over your earnings, or the opportunity to finally build something of your own. And getting started doesn't mean you have to leave your current job. Many NPs start with just a few hours a week while continuing to work elsewhere. From there, you can grow your practice at a pace that feels right for you. Your practice could remain part-time or eventually become your full-time career. The idea is to create something that works for your lifestyle, your professional goals, and the community you want to serve. Focus on patient care. We’ll help with the rest. Running your own practice involves much more than seeing patients. Kinstead supports you with the business and operational work behind the scenes, including:

- Insurance credentialing and payer contracting
- Billing, coding, and revenue cycle management
- EHR and technology
- Scheduling and patient intake
- A virtual front desk with real humans answering patient calls
- Business setup, legal, and compliance support
- Website and marketing support
- Tools and support to help you grow your patient panel

You bring your clinical expertise and understanding of your community. We help you build a practice around it. Getting started may be simpler than you expect You don't need a large patient panel from day one. Most practices can cover their basic costs with fewer than 3 patient visits per month, and startup costs are typically less than $3,000. As your practice grows, NPs typically take home around $100–$150 per clinical hour, with the potential to earn around $250,000 annually in a full-time practice. More than 50 Nurse Practitioners have already partnered with Kinstead to launch and grow independent practices of their own. Who we're looking for This could be a good fit if you:

- Are an experienced FNP, PMHNP, or other Nurse Practitioner
- Hold an active Maryland NP license and meet the state’s requirements for independent practice
- Have several years of experience caring for patients
- Have strong connections to the community you hope to serve
- Have considered opening your own practice, even if you're unsure where to start
- Want more control over how you care for patients and how you organize your work

You don't need to come in with a business plan. You don't need to understand the ins and outs of credentialing or billing. And you don't need to quit your current job to explore the opportunity. If owning your own practice is something you've been considering, we'd love to connect and walk you through what getting started with Kinstead could look like for you.

## About Kinstead

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Kinstead provides nurse practitioners with a comprehensive platform to launch and operate their own independent private practices, handling credentialing, billing, compliance, and operations so clinicians can focus on patient care.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Early Stage)
- **Headquarters**: New York, United States
- **Founded**: Not publicly available
- **Founders**: Taylor Rose (Co-Founder & CEO), Parth Chodavadia, MD (Co-Founder), Nick Catalano (CTO and Founding Engineer)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Healthcare IT / Healthcare Services
- **Target customers**: Nurse Practitioners (NPs) in primary care and psychiatry seeking to start independent practices; also health plans and payors seeking to expand NP-led provider networks
- **Mission statement**: To rebuild healthcare into a model that works for patients, providers, and communities — giving nurse practitioners the freedom to practice deeply, personally, and without barriers.

## Products & Services
- **Kinstead Platform (Full Practice Launch & Operations Support)**: An end-to-end service that includes business formation, state licensing, CAQH profile management, payer enrollment (commercial, Medicare, Medicaid), credentialing, EHR setup, scheduling and intake workflows, billing and revenue cycle management (97% average clean claim rate), virtual front desk, compliance and HIPAA support, practice coaching, and growth/marketing assistance (local SEO, referral network development). The company claims practices can go from signed agreement to first patient visit in under 90 days. Clinicians own their practice and are insurance-covered from day one.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation**: Not disclosed
- **Key Metric**: The company has launched practices across primary care, psychiatry, and integrative health in Massachusetts, Maryland, and Connecticut.
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Not publicly disclosed. The company was featured by Headstream Innovation, a healthcare innovation ecosystem.
- **Growth Signals**: Active job postings (16 open roles as of mid-2025) despite a small core team (4 employees on LinkedIn). Rapid LinkedIn follower growth: 347 followers with +55.6% monthly growth. Forbes spotlighted co-founder Taylor Rose in an October 2025 feature on women reimagining healthcare delivery. Monthly website traffic of ~4,048 visits with +22.6% monthly growth.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Full vertical integration**: Kinstead combines practice formation, credentialing, billing, clinical operations, compliance, and growth into a single service — not just software. This reduces the complexity that historically required hiring lawyers, billers, and credentialing specialists separately.
- **Clinician-owned model**: Practices are owned entirely by the NP, not by Kinstead, giving clinicians full autonomy and income potential (cited as 2–3× higher than employed NP positions).
- **Speed to market**: The 90-day launch timeline from agreement to seeing patients is a significant differentiator in a space known for months or years of administrative delays.
- **Founding team credibility**: Co-founders bring experience from Duke, McKinsey & Company, Gates Foundation, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, PathAI, and Wharton — combining frontline clinical, operational, and technology expertise.

## Strategic Focus
- **Geographic expansion**: Currently operating in Massachusetts, Maryland, and Connecticut, with active listings for additional NPs in all three states — suggesting a focused Northeast expansion strategy.
- **Payor partnerships**: Kinstead is actively courting health plans and payors with a "value-based care" proposition, offering flexible contracting models and technology-enabled analytics to help plans expand NP-led networks and close care gaps.
- **Platform development**: Active engineering hiring (Senior Backend Engineer, Senior Product Engineer) indicates investment in the technology layer of their service, moving beyond just operational support into more proprietary software capabilities.
- **Scaling the provider network**: The company's core growth lever is onboarding more NPs — every job posting for "Start Your Own Practice" is effectively a customer acquisition role.

## Why Work Here
- **Tiny team, outsized impact**: With only 4 employees on LinkedIn but 16 active job postings, the company is in a hypergrowth hiring phase. New hires will likely have significant ownership and influence over product and company direction.
- **Mission-driven healthcare work**: The team is united by a belief in NP-led, independent, patient-centered care as a solution to access and quality problems in the US healthcare system.
- **Founder-led engineering**: The CTO (Nick Catalano) is a hands-on engineer who has built HIPAA-compliant healthcare systems — the engineering culture appears pragmatic, impact-oriented, and built around clinician workflows.
- **Tech stack**: Typescript, GitHub, GitHub Actions — modern, pragmatic, and familiar for full-stack engineers.
- **Remote/hybrid policy**: Not explicitly stated; headquarters is New York City, and the small team suggests a flexible work environment where in-person collaboration may be valued but remote is likely supported given the engineering roles.
- **Notable**: The company is pre-product-market fit for its technology layer; roles like Senior Backend Engineer and Senior Product Engineer will be foundational to building the core platform.

## Sources
1. [kinsteadhealth.com](https://www.kinsteadhealth.com/)
2. [kinsteadhealth.com/about](https://www.kinsteadhealth.com/about)
3. [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/kinsteadhealth)
4. [kinsteadhealth.com/for-payors](https://www.kinsteadhealth.com/for-payors)
5. [headstreaminnovation.com](https://www.headstreaminnovation.com/innovators/kinstead-health)

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- [Chief of Staff](https://feeny.ai/job/chief-of-staff-kinstead-new-york-h9wbjrmmpzje) — New York, NY
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