Tipton and Unroe

What Tipton and Unroe does

Tipton and Unroe, now operating as Kentuckiana Foot and Ankle, is a private podiatry medical practice headquartered in Louisville, KY. The practice operates eight clinic locations across Kentucky (Louisville metro area including Bardstown, Bowling Green, and Elizabethtown) and Indiana (New Albany), delivering foot and ankle care across ten service categories: bunion treatment, plantar fasciitis care, custom orthotics, sports injuries, foot and ankle deformities, ingrown toenails, wound care, diabetic foot care, and foot/ankle surgery. The practice also runs a fellowship program, suggesting a commitment to clinical training and physician recruitment.

The practice's technology stack is standard for a multi-site medical group: it uses Modernizing Medicine's EMA (Electronic Medical Assistant) for patient portal access and records management, Verisma for medical record requests, and PracticeBeat/Treatspace to power its website and patient-facing scheduling. The platform is HIPAA-compliant and supports online appointment requests, patient billing (via a dedicated billing department), and email subscription. Patient acquisition is driven through the practice website, blog content, patient testimonials, and social sharing to Facebook, X, and LinkedIn.

The business model is fee-for-service podiatry, operating on an insurance-based and direct-pay structure. Revenue is generated from patient consultations, diagnostics, non-surgical treatments, custom orthotics, and surgical procedures, with 11–50 employees supporting clinical and administrative operations across the eight-site footprint. The practice is privately held with no disclosed investors, funding rounds, parent company, or M&A activity.

Name

Tipton and Unroe

Legal name

Kentuckiana Foot and Ankle

Website

https://tiptonandunroe.com

Company type

Private

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

51–100 employees

Short description

Kentuckiana Foot and Ankle (formerly Tipton and Unroe) is a private podiatry practice operating eight clinics across Kentucky and Indiana, providing medical and surgical foot and ankle care—including bunion treatment, orthotics, diabetic foot care, and sports injury services—to individual patients on an insurance and fee-for-service basis.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Podiatry Services

NAICS

Offices of Podiatrists (621391)

SIC

Services-Offices & Clinics Of Doctors Of Medicine (8011), Services-Specialty Outpatient Facilities, Nec (8093)

akta.pro primary industry

Foot & Ankle (HLAKALAG)

akta.pro secondary industry

Podiatry & Foot/Ankle Surgery Centers (HLAFAIAL)

Keywords

• Podiatry services
• Foot and ankle care
• Custom orthotics
• Diabetic foot care
• Foot and ankle surgery

Headquarters

HQ city

Louisville

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices9 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Infrastructure, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales, Supply Chain

Revenue model

1. Podiatry Medical Services: Revenue generated from patient consultations, diagnostic services, treatments, and surgical procedures for foot and ankle conditions. Services include bunion treatment, plantar fasciitis care, custom orthotics, sports injury treatment, wound care, diabetic foot care, and foot/ankle surgery.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

Tipton and Unroe, now operating as Kentuckiana Foot and Ankle, is a multi-location podiatry medical practice delivering diagnostic, non-surgical, and surgical care for foot and ankle conditions. Services span bunion treatment, plantar fasciitis care, custom orthotics, sports injury treatment, foot and ankle deformity correction, ingrown toenail treatment, wound care, diabetic foot care, and foot/ankle surgery across eight clinics in Kentucky and Indiana.

Product overview

Kentuckiana Foot and Ankle (formerly Tipton and Unroe Foot & Ankle Care) is a podiatry practice offering a unified platform of foot and ankle healthcare services. The practice provides 10 distinct service categories including treatment for bunions, plantar fasciitis, custom orthotics, sports injuries, foot deformities, ingrown toenails, wound care, diabetic foot care, and foot/ankle surgery. These services operate as a cohesive care delivery model within multiple Kentucky and Indiana locations, unified under the Kentuckiana Foot and Ankle brand following the rebranding of Tipton and Unroe.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Bunion Treatment Specialized treatment for bunions, including surgical and non-surgical options for patients with foot deformities.
• Plantar Fasciitis Treatment Treatment for heel pain and plantar fasciitis conditions in patients suffering from chronic foot pain.
• Custom Orthotics Custom-fitted orthotic devices for foot support and biomechanical correction.
• Sports Injuries Treatment Specialized care for sports-related foot and ankle injuries in athletic and active patients.
• Foot and Ankle Deformities Treatment Treatment services for various structural foot and ankle deformities.
• Ingrown Toenail Treatment Treatment for ingrown toenail conditions, including minor in-office procedures.
• Wound Care Specialized wound care services for foot and ankle conditions, including chronic and post-surgical wounds.
• Diabetic Foot Care Comprehensive foot care services for diabetic patients, focused on prevention, monitoring, and treatment of diabetes-related foot complications.
• Foot and Ankle Surgery Surgical procedures to correct foot and ankle conditions, deformities, and injuries.
• Other Podiatry Services Additional podiatry services not categorized within the other named service lines.

Segments1 record

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration3 records

Scale indicators1 record

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights3 records

Others

• Healogics: Wound care specialist network operating outpatient wound care centers, many co-located with physician practices. Adjacent to Kentuckiana's wound care and diabetic foot care service lines and a potential partnership or referral counterpart.
• Pediatric Orthotic Solutions (regional orthotics lab): Ecosystem participant on the orthotics side of podiatry; included as an 'others' adjacency to reflect the supplier and lab ecosystem that custom orthotics service lines depend on, not as a direct competitor.

Broad incumbents

• US Foot & Ankle Specialists: A large PE-backed podiatry platform operating multi-state foot & ankle groups. Directly comparable to Kentuckiana Foot and Ankle in service mix (bunions, plantar fasciitis, diabetic foot, surgery) and in the multi-site regional group model; relevant as both a competitive and consolidation benchmark.
• Affordable Care / Affordable Dentures (foot care analog: myhannacare-style podiatry): Not a direct podiatry peer, but cited as a thematic reference for multi-site specialty healthcare models; included only as a broad incumbent analog for the regional specialty-clinic operating model.

Direct peers

• Reston Foot & Ankle: Independent multi-physician podiatry practice offering surgical, diabetic, and sports-related foot and ankle care. Comparable in the small-to-mid regional group archetype that Kentuckiana fits within.
• Ankle & Foot Centers of America: Multi-site podiatry group with comprehensive foot and ankle care including surgery, diabetic foot care, and orthotics. Operates a similar specialty-clinic model to Kentuckiana in a regional footprint.
• Weil Foot & Ankle: Regional podiatry group with a broad service offering including bunion treatment, orthotics, sports medicine, and foot/ankle surgery. Direct operational peer to Kentuckiana in both service breadth and multi-clinic structure.
• Foot & Ankle Specialists of Ohio: Multi-location podiatry group offering bunion, plantar fasciitis, custom orthotics, sports injury, and surgical services. Closely mirrors Kentuckiana's service catalog and multi-clinic operating model in a similar mid-size regional footprint.
• Active Foot & Ankle: Podiatry group providing bunion, heel pain, custom orthotics, sports injury, and surgical services. Comparable in service mix and multi-provider clinic model, although typically smaller in scale.

Regional players

• Carolina Foot & Ankle: Regional podiatry group in the Carolinas delivering bunion, plantar fasciitis, orthotic, and surgical care. Same service model as Kentuckiana but operating in a different geography.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Xtwitter.com/intent/tweet?url=http://www.kentuckianafootankle.com/resources/tipton-and-unroe
• Facebookfacebook.com/tiptonunroe

Compliance1 record

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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