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The best care-management program in the world still needs patients to walk in the door

Local SEO, reputation management, paid patient acquisition, and referral-network growth — built by people who understand HIPAA-aware healthcare marketing, not a generic agency running the same playbook for a law firm.

Local SEOReputation managementPaid patient acquisitionReferral growth
What It Is

Most patients now choose a new provider the way they choose a restaurant: they search, they read reviews, and they pick whoever looks most credible in the first ten seconds. A clinically excellent practice with a thin online presence and a handful of old reviews loses new patients to a mediocre practice that simply shows up better online.

Elixir's healthcare marketing service builds and runs that online presence — search visibility, review generation, a referral engine, and paid acquisition when it makes sense — as a growth channel that feeds your newly built CCM, RPM, and AWV programs with the patient volume they need to matter financially.

What's included

  • Local SEO & Google Business Profile optimization
  • Review generation & reputation management
  • Website & landing page optimization for conversions
  • HIPAA-aware paid search & social patient acquisition
  • Referral network development with local providers
  • Email & patient recall campaigns (AWV reminders, program invitations)
  • Content marketing for chronic-condition & service-line pages
  • Monthly performance reporting — traffic, calls, new patients
Patient Acquisition Funnel
SEARCHES
4,800
PROFILE VIEWS
2,976
SITE VISITS
1,632
CALLS/FORMS
432
NEW PATIENTS
211
Illustrative funnel shape for a typical local-search patient-acquisition campaign.
76%

of patients use online reviews to evaluate providers

Reputation management isn't optional marketing polish — it's the modern front door of your practice.

Source: Software Advice patient survey data
Marketing Feeds The Whole Model

New patients become AWV visits become care-management enrollment

Marketing isn't a separate initiative bolted onto care management — it's the top of the same funnel. A new patient acquired through local search gets scheduled for an Annual Wellness Visit, which becomes the entry point for CCM, RPM, or APCM enrollment, all run by the same team.

01

Patient searches & finds your practice

Local SEO, Google Business Profile, and reputation work put your practice in front of patients actively searching.

02

Patient books an appointment

Conversion-optimized landing pages and simple scheduling reduce the drop-off between a click and a booked visit.

03

Visit becomes an AWV or new-patient exam

Elixir's AWV service ensures the visit captures the full preventive-care opportunity, not just the chief complaint.

04

Eligible patients are enrolled in care management

CCM, RPM, or APCM enrollment happens on the same visit, with monthly recurring value from day one.

Common Questions

Healthcare marketing, answered plainly

Is this compliant with HIPAA and healthcare advertising rules?+
Yes — campaigns are built around HIPAA-aware practices: no protected health information in ad platforms or tracking pixels, careful handling of patient testimonials, and adherence to payer and state advertising rules for healthcare services.
Do we need a new website?+
Not always. We start by auditing your existing site and online presence; many practices see strong gains from optimizing what they have before any redesign is considered.
How is this different from a generic marketing agency?+
A generic agency treats a medical practice like any other local business. Elixir's marketing team works inside the same operating model as your care-management programs, so campaigns are built to feed AWV and CCM/RPM enrollment specifically, not just generic "more leads."
What does success look like?+
Monthly reporting tracks the full funnel — search visibility, site traffic, calls and form submissions, booked appointments, and ultimately new patients — so you see real practice growth, not vanity metrics like impressions alone.
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Next Step

Get a free online-presence audit

We'll review your search visibility, reviews, and website conversion path and show you exactly where patients are falling through the cracks.

Session Agenda

  1. Local search & Google Business Profile review
  2. Reputation & review audit
  3. Website conversion assessment
  4. Referral network review
  5. Recommended 90-day growth plan
  6. Your clinic-specific opportunity model