Expect to pay meaningfully more — and at JAS we state the delta plainly instead of whispering it. Our commercial rates put a Medical / dental clinic starting at $0.22 per square foot, against about $0.16 for a standard office suite on our weekly size ladder: roughly 38% more, arithmetic on our own rates. The $185-per-weekly-visit commercial floor is the same for both.
That is the summary. The rest of this guide does three things: puts the two rates side by side with the math at real suite sizes, explains where the premium comes from across the industry — and which part of that argument applies to a commercial crew like ours — and is plain about what the premium does NOT buy, because in a practice that is the most expensive question to answer wrong. Starting figures are estimates, never quotes: the final price comes out of a walkthrough and arrives in writing, usually within one business day.
That’s the standard a building should be held to. If you’d rather have it in writing, tell us about the space — we walk it and come back with a scope of work and a price, usually within one business day.
The two rates, side by side
In our commercial booking flow, Medical / dental clinic is its own property type — the tile reads “exam rooms and waiting areas” — with its own rate. Both start from the same floor: $185 per weekly visit for spaces up to 1,000 sq ft, for the same visit described on our office cleaning page. What follows is arithmetic on those rates — starting figures, not quotes:
- Up to 1,000 sq ft · office: from $185 (the floor) · medical suite: your actual square feet at the $0.22 rate, over the same floor — $220 at exactly 1,000 sq ft
- 1,500 sq ft · office: $240 on the size ladder · medical suite: $330 — $90 more per visit
- 3,000 sq ft · office: $480 on the size ladder · medical suite: $660 — $180 more per visit
For the standard side of the comparison we are not going to restate the full ladder — we already walk through it, along with what moves it and the per-square-foot trap on small suites, in how much office cleaning costs in Miami. That guide is the anchor; this one answers only the gap.
Where the premium comes from — across the industry
Ask for “medical cleaning” prices in any city and the premium over office cleaning always shows up, with the same rationale in the guides the specialist industry itself publishes: hospital-grade, EPA-registered disinfectants and their contact times, staff trained under OSHA’s bloodborne-pathogen rules, terminal-clean protocols for procedure rooms, and documentation — who cleaned what, with which product, when. All of that is time, training, and paperwork, and specialist companies charge for it. Stated in general terms and with no rule numbers: that is their published rationale, not regulatory advice from us.
The honest part almost no salesperson says out loud: much of that package belongs to the practice’s own clinical program, not to the cleaning company walking the suite at night. We have drawn that boundary room by room in cleaning standards for medical and dental offices, and answered the question that comes before it — whether a regular cleaning company can clean a medical office — with a bounded, written yes. This guide restates neither; it only prices the difference.
What the JAS premium buys — and what it doesn’t
Our $0.22 does not buy a different company — it buys the same facility work done at higher density and with more discipline. A practice packs more restrooms, more high-touch points, and more hard floor into each square foot than an open floor of desks, the waiting room takes a beating like a lobby, and the product list changes: the office page already publishes it — EPA-list disinfectants where an industry requires them, written into your floor’s custom checklist. The visit lands in the usual evening window, after the last patient leaves, and on eligible completed visits a CleanCheck report follows: checklist status with customer-safe photos — dated evidence, which counts double in a practice.
What the rate does not buy, at any price of ours: the clinical layer. Treatment surfaces, sterilization, sharps, regulated medical waste, and any spill involving blood stay under your practice’s own program, and our Terms publish the limit in these words: we reserve the right to refuse service in cases of unsafe conditions (mold, infestation, biohazard). A premium that pretends to erase that line is not selling you cleaning — it is selling you a risk with an invoice attached.
“The honest premium pays for density and discipline. The dishonest premium pays for the illusion that your compliance just became somebody else’s problem.”
What doesn’t change between the two
Everything else is identical to any commercial job we run, and that is part of the answer too: the premium lives in the rate, not in the process. The path to the final number is the same — we walk the space, split the scope in writing, and send the price in writing, usually within one business day, as the janitorial page publishes. That same page publishes the vendor file a medical building asks for, ready before they ask — $2M general liability, a COI naming your building as certificate holder within 2 business hours, a W-9 on request, background-checked teams — and the price you approve is the price you pay.
FAQ
Why does a medical office cost more to clean per square foot?
Because the same square foot carries more work. A practice packs more restrooms, more high-touch points, and more hard floor into its footprint than an open office does, the disinfection list is longer, and the paperwork is stricter — rooms named, exclusions written down, products specified. Across the industry, specialist medical cleaning programs also price in hospital-grade disinfectants, bloodborne-pathogen training, and terminal-clean protocols; that is their published rationale, not a JAS service.
Does paying the higher clinic rate mean JAS takes over the clinical cleaning?
No — and be wary of any vendor who implies otherwise at any price. The rate buys the facility layer done to a stricter written scope: waiting room, reception, restrooms, break room, floors, ordinary trash, with EPA-list disinfectants written into the checklist. Treatment surfaces, sterilization, sharps, and regulated medical waste stay under your practice’s own program, and the JAS Terms publish the boundary: we reserve the right to refuse service in cases of unsafe conditions (mold, infestation, biohazard).
What would a 2,500 sq ft practice cost per month against a same-size office?
Run the rates through the calendar — arithmetic, not a quote. At $0.22 per square foot, 2,500 sq ft works out to $550 per visit; weekly service is four to five visits a month, so roughly $2,200–$2,750. The same suite as a plain office works out to $400 per visit on the size ladder, roughly $1,600–$2,000 a month. Layout, restroom count, condition, and access all move the real number, and the walkthrough settles it in writing.
This guide is part of the JAS operating playbook. It is not medical, legal, or regulatory advice — what your practice must do is defined by the agencies and by your infection-control coordinator.