Cardinal Digital Marketing and Catalyze Care are both healthcare-only marketing agencies, built for different buyers. Cardinal describes itself as a healthcare performance marketing agency for provider groups ready to scale fast, with paid media, SEO, website design, and media mix modeling. Catalyze Care works with therapy practices, psychiatry clinics, and multi-location specialty groups. We start with the doctors who already refer in your market, then add SEO and paid ads at published prices: referral marketing $5,000/month (3-month minimum), SEO $799/month, and paid ads $2,500/month plus media.
In one sentenceChoose Cardinal for a large paid media and measurement program across many locations; choose Catalyze Care when referring doctors drive your growth and you want fees you can read before the first call.
What Cardinal Digital Marketing focuses on
Cardinal's public site describes performance marketing for high-growth healthcare groups: Google, Meta, TikTok, and display advertising, SEO, website design, conversion rate work, and business intelligence by service line and location. Its RevRx planning tool uses media mix modeling to guide where budget goes. The groups it lists include behavioral health providers, hospitals and health systems, multi-location provider groups, addiction treatment centers, dental groups and DSOs, senior care, urgent care, and private equity portfolio companies. Since January 2026, Cardinal has operated as the healthcare division of Power Digital Marketing.
Sources: Cardinal's home, services, specialties, and Power Digital partnership pages, reviewed October 1, 2026. Agencies update their services often, so check their current pages before you decide.
What Catalyze Care focuses on
- Referral marketing, $5,000/month with a 3-month minimum. We find the offices that already send patients in your specialty and reach them by fax, email, phone, LinkedIn, and direct mail.
- SEO, $799/month. Your Google Business Profile, directory listings, service and location pages, and technical fixes, so patients find you when they search.
- Paid ads, $2,500/month management, media billed separately. Google and Meta campaigns aimed at booked appointments, with tracking that keeps patient health information out of ad platforms.
- Monthly reports with booked-inquiry fields your intake team can check.
Side by side
| Question | Catalyze Care | Cardinal Digital Marketing |
|---|---|---|
| Who it is built for | Therapy practices, psychiatry clinics, and multi-location specialty groups | High-growth provider groups, health systems, DSOs, and private equity groups (public positioning) |
| Where growth starts | Outreach to the doctors who already refer, then SEO and paid ads | Paid media and SEO, guided by media mix modeling |
| Published fees | $5,000 referral (3-month minimum), $799 SEO, $2,500 paid ads plus media | Not listed on its public pages, so ask for a written quote |
| Outreach to referring doctors | Core service | Not among the services on its public pages |
| Reporting | Monthly, tied to booked appointments from your intake | Business intelligence by service line and location (public positioning) |
When Cardinal is the better fit
Cardinal is a strong conversation when you run many locations, spend heavily on paid media, and want forecasting and media mix modeling to decide where each dollar goes. Health systems, DSOs, and private equity groups adding sites fit that description well.
When Catalyze Care is the better fit
Catalyze Care fits when new patients mostly arrive through other clinicians, as they do for many therapy and psychiatry practices, and you want that outreach run alongside SEO and paid ads on one plan. It also fits when you want to know the fee before the first call. Start with our healthcare marketing agency overview, or see how healthcare referral marketing works.
How to compare the two
- Name the gap. Write down whether growth is limited by referrals, search visibility, or near-term demand. Our guide to choosing a healthcare marketing agency walks through it.
- Get fees in writing. Catalyze Care publishes $5,000 / $799 / $2,500. Ask every firm for its monthly fee and minimum term on the same page as its cancel terms.
- Ask what the monthly report shows. You want booked appointments by source, checked against your intake. Our guide to reading a monthly healthcare marketing report lists the fields.
- Send both firms the same questions. Use the healthcare marketing RFP questions so the answers line up.
FAQ
What does Catalyze Care charge?
Referral marketing is $5,000/month with a 3-month minimum. SEO is $799/month. Paid ads management is $2,500/month, with media billed separately.
How is Catalyze Care different from Cardinal Digital Marketing?
Cardinal publicly focuses on performance marketing for fast-growing provider groups, led by paid media, SEO, and media mix modeling. Catalyze Care starts with outreach to the doctors who already refer in your market, then adds SEO and paid ads, at published prices.
Does Cardinal Digital Marketing work with mental health practices?
Yes. Cardinal's site lists behavioral health providers among the groups it serves, including ABA therapy, addiction treatment, and telehealth, with an emphasis on multi-location providers. Catalyze Care works with therapy practices, psychiatry clinics, and multi-location mental health groups.