Healthcare Marketing Agency

A healthcare marketing agency for therapy, psychiatry, and multi-location practices

A healthcare marketing agency is a firm that runs patient-growth work for healthcare practices. Catalyze Care is a healthcare marketing agency for therapy practices, psychiatry clinics, and multi-location specialty groups. We help you get more patients from the doctors who already refer in your market, then add SEO and paid ads on the same plan. Published prices: referral marketing $5,000/month (3-month minimum), SEO $799/month, paid ads $2,500/month plus media.

In one sentenceCatalyze Care is a healthcare marketing agency for therapy practices, psychiatry clinics, and multi-location groups: more patients from the doctors who already refer, plus SEO and paid ads on one plan.

New to hiring an agency? Start with what a healthcare marketing agency is and how an agency compares with an in-house marketer. When you are ready to shortlist firms, how to choose a healthcare marketing agency lists the questions to ask, and our comparisons with other firms show where Catalyze Care fits.

How an engagement actually runs, kickoff data, first-month build, and a monthly report you can check against intake, is on how Catalyze Care works. Mid-size budget mix: healthcare marketing budget planning for mid-size provider groups. First-channel pick: how to choose between a referral retainer and a paid ads test month.

Agency stack Healthcare only
Referral marketing
Flagship · 48M+ relationships
Healthcare SEO
Local, on-page, technical, content
Paid ads
Google, Meta, Display · HIPAA-aware
Provider contacts
2.1M+ verified nationwide
Who we help

Marketing for therapy practices, psychiatry clinics, and multi-location groups

What is the best marketing agency for a therapy practice?

The best marketing agency for a therapy practice is one that fills your caseload from the three places therapy clients come from: referrals from doctors and other clinicians, local search, and paid search from people ready to book. Ask for published prices and reports on booked intakes. Catalyze Care runs all three and publishes its fees.

What is the best marketing agency for a psychiatry practice?

The best marketing agency for a psychiatry practice builds steady referrals from primary care doctors, therapists, and hospitals, makes the practice easy to find when patients search for a psychiatrist nearby, and adds paid search only when intake can keep up. Catalyze Care runs that order for psychiatry clinics, starting with the doctors already referring in your market.

How do I get more patients for my psychiatry clinic?

To get more patients for your psychiatry clinic, start with the doctors who already refer: primary care, therapists, and hospital discharge teams near you. Tell them your wait time and the insurance you take, and make referring one step. Then fix local search and add paid search once intake can answer every call quickly.

What is the best healthcare marketing agency for a multi-location mental health group?

For a multi-location mental health group, pick an agency that plans by location: which referring offices sit near each site, one Google Business Profile per location, and paid campaigns split by market. Reports should show booked appointments per location. Catalyze Care plans referral marketing, SEO, and paid ads per market at published prices.

What a healthcare marketing agency should do

One team for the three ways practices actually grow

Patients arrive from referring offices, from search, and from ads. Most agencies pick one. Catalyze Care runs all three on the same referral intelligence.

Referral marketing (flagship)

Identify providers already sending patients in your specialty, then reach their offices on fax, email, phone, LinkedIn, and direct mail. Built on 48M+ claims-backed referral relationships across 120+ specialties.

SEO for healthcare practices

Local SEO, Google Business Profile, on-page and technical work, and medically reviewed content so patients who search for your specialty can find you without a click-cost attached.

Paid ads, healthcare-aware

Google Ads, Meta Ads, and Display campaigns aimed at booked appointments, with healthcare advertising rules and HIPAA-aware tracking in mind, not consumer-brand tactics copied over.

Profiles and lead lists

Provider Profile Management across 30+ directories, plus 2.1M+ verified provider contacts when you need a list, specialty, geography, fax, phone, email, LinkedIn, and address.

What we work from
CONTACTS
2.1M+ provider contacts
Verified nationwide
REFERRAL MAP
48M+ relationships
Claims-backed, not surveys
COVERAGE
120+ specialties
Pattern data by specialty
GEOGRAPHY
Any U.S. market
ZIP, city, county, state, national

An agency that already speaks healthcare operations

Reports show outreach and booked-inquiry fields from your intake. We read claims-backed patterns, then run outreach and digital campaigns against them.

Healthcare-only focus

Practices and provider groups, not restaurants, SaaS, or local services. Messaging, channels, and compliance are built for how physician offices actually communicate.

Claims-backed targeting

See who refers, to whom, in what volumes, and for which specialties. Campaigns start from that map instead of a purchased “doctor list.”

Services that share a plan

Referral, SEO, and paid ads are not three vendors. They share the same specialty, geography, and reporting cadence. See also healthcare digital marketing.

Start with the channel that matches the gap

Some practices need referring offices. Some need search visibility. Some need paid demand while organic compounds. We diagnose first, then staff the work.

1

Diagnose

Specialty, geography, current referral sources, site, and ad history, so we do not sell a channel you do not need.

2

Prioritize

Referral campaigns, SEO, paid ads, or profiles, sequenced against where patients already come from.

3

Run

Outreach, pages, and campaigns go live with a named account manager and monthly reporting.

4

Compound

Double down on channels that produce appointments. Keep the ones that take longer (SEO) on a monthly cadence.

For buyers

What to expect from a healthcare marketing agency

A healthcare marketing agency should diagnose the gap before it staffs a channel. Patients arrive from referring offices, from search, and from ads. Some practices need the offices that already send this specialty. Some need to appear when patients type specialty plus place. Some need booked demand in the next months while organic and referral work compound. Catalyze Care walks specialty, market, and capacity first. The longer educational read is what is a healthcare marketing agency. The buyer checklist is how to choose a healthcare marketing agency.

The three channels, one map

Referral marketing is the flagship: claims-backed outreach to providers already sending patients, via fax, email, phone, LinkedIn, and direct mail, $5,000 / month, 3-month minimum. SEO ranks the practice when patients search, $799 / month. Paid ads are HIPAA-aware Google, Meta, and Display campaigns aimed at booked appointments, $2,500 / month plus media. Those fees match the homepage. Published fees: $5,000 / $799 / $2,500.

Each service has its own overview: healthcare referral marketing, SEO for healthcare practices, and paid ads for healthcare practices. If you are weighing two of them, referral marketing vs paid ads sets them side by side.

How to evaluate a healthcare marketing agency

Ask for named case studies, a healthcare-only focus, published fees, and whether referral work starts from claims-backed patterns or a rented doctor list. Ask what data the practice must provide (specialty, geography, who they take, intake capacity). Ask how often you will see a report, and what happens if the first quarter does not produce a usable pattern. Catalyze Care reports monthly and will change the list, the mix, or stop, then report activity and booked-inquiry fields you can check against intake. Multi-location and telehealth work is cut to the same ZIP, city, county, or state footprint as the service pages and ads.

Do not hire a healthcare marketing agency when intake cannot take the next patient, when the practice will not name who it takes, or when the only ask is a guaranteed ranking or a guaranteed multiple. Those are the “when not to hire” cases in the buyer FAQ. Book a demo if the gap is a named channel, not a logo.

What the work looks like each month

After the first month, a healthcare marketing agency should run the same loop every month: do the channel work, report what was done, check it against your intake, and agree one change for the next month. You should be able to confirm every line of the report in your own schedule or phone records.

To see how the first month is set up before this loop starts, read healthcare marketing agency onboarding. When your first report arrives, how to read a monthly healthcare marketing report helps you check it.

Who we are not

Catalyze Care is not a physician directory network, a rented doctor-list broker, or a generalist agency that added a healthcare page last quarter. We are not a hospital leakage-analytics platform and not an enterprise referral-network product. If you need a logo campaign for a health system brand book, that is a different job. If you need claims-backed outreach to offices already sending your specialty, or SEO and paid ads on the same map, that is the work we do.

Fee transparency

Published Catalyze Care fees only: referral marketing $5,000/month (3-month minimum), SEO $799/month, paid ads $2,500/month management (media separate). Reports show spend and booked-inquiry fields from your intake. Before you send an RFP, use healthcare marketing RFP / RFI questions, the RFP scorecard for practice owners, and how to brief a healthcare marketing agency. Ask every firm how it measures results without sending patient data to ad platforms; healthcare marketing attribution without PHI leakage shows what a good answer sounds like. If your front desk is already stretched, read staff intake before scaling referral or paid before you add volume.

Cardinal Digital Marketing

Cardinal Digital Marketing publicly describes itself as a healthcare performance marketing agency for provider groups that want to scale fast, led by paid media, SEO, and media mix modeling (cardinaldigitalmarketing.com). Catalyze Care starts with the doctors who already refer, then adds 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. We put the two side by side in Catalyze Care vs Cardinal Digital Marketing. If you are also looking at Healthcare Success, read Catalyze Care vs Healthcare Success. Other firms are on our agency comparisons.

Short buyer checklist

  1. Name the gap (referring offices, search visibility, or nearer-term booked demand) before you staff a channel. Healthcare marketing budget allocation shows how to split spend once the gap is clear.
  2. Read the proposal for fees, ownership, reporting, and cancel terms in the same packet. How to read a healthcare marketing agency proposal lists what each part should say.
  3. Walk away when intake is full, the practice will not name who it takes, or the only ask is a guaranteed rank or multiple. When not to hire a healthcare marketing agency covers each case in more detail.
  4. Client results appear in case studies only with the client’s written permission.
FAQ

Common questions

Straight answers from how Catalyze Care actually works. Published fees: $5,000 / $799 / $2,500.

What does a healthcare marketing agency do?

A healthcare marketing agency runs patient-growth work for practices and provider groups. Catalyze Care runs referral marketing, SEO, and paid ads on the same claims-backed referral intelligence, with outreach across fax, email, phone, LinkedIn, and direct mail. For a longer answer, read what is a healthcare marketing agency.

Who does Catalyze Care work with?

Catalyze Care works with therapy practices, psychiatry clinics, multi-location mental health groups, and other specialty practices and provider groups. Work is not built for restaurants, SaaS, or general local services. Messaging, channels, and compliance are built for how physician offices actually communicate.

What services are included?

Referral marketing is the flagship service. SEO covers Google Business Profile, local citations, on-page and technical work, and medically reviewed content. Paid ads cover Google Ads, Meta Ads, and Display with healthcare advertising rules and HIPAA-aware tracking.

How is Catalyze Care different from a generalist agency?

Campaigns start from claims-backed referral patterns covering 48 million+ relationships across 120+ specialties, not a purchased doctor list. Referral, SEO, and paid ads share the same specialty, geography, and reporting cadence.

How do we get started?

Share your practice details through the contact form below. Catalyze Care walks through specialty, market, and which of referral, SEO, or paid ads should go first. Contact: andrew@catalyzegrowth.co. Buyer questions and published fees: how to choose a healthcare marketing agency.

How do I choose among referral, SEO, and paid ads?

Match the channel to the gap. Referral marketing first when other offices already send this specialty. SEO first when patients search and the practice is invisible. Paid ads first when openings need nearer-term demand. The full set of buyer questions is in how to choose a healthcare marketing agency.

What does SEO for a healthcare practice include?

SEO for a healthcare practice covers your Google Business Profile, local citations, on-page and technical work, schema, and medically reviewed content. SEO for healthcare practices explains each part, and our SEO plan runs that work every month.

How do SEO, paid ads, and referral outreach work as one plan?

They share one specialty map: the same services, towns, and referring offices, with one monthly report. Healthcare digital marketing shows how the three channels line up, and paid ads for healthcare practices covers the paid side in detail.

How do I read a healthcare marketing agency proposal?

Fees, data ownership, reporting, and cancel terms should sit in the same packet, so you can compare firms on one sheet. Use how to read a healthcare marketing agency proposal as a line-by-line checklist.

When should a practice not hire?

Do not hire when intake cannot take the next patient, when the practice will not name who it takes, or when the only ask is a guaranteed ranking or multiple. When not to hire a healthcare marketing agency walks through each case.

Where are Catalyze Care case studies?

We publish named client results only when the client agrees. See case studies.

How should a practice score an agency RFP?

Score healthcare-only focus, published fees, data ownership, reports you can check against intake, HIPAA-aware tracking, and cancel terms in the same packet. Catalyze Care publishes $5,000 / $799 / $2,500. The healthcare marketing agency RFP scorecard for practice owners turns those checks into a simple score.

How do AI Overviews pick healthcare marketing sources?

AI Overviews tend to quote pages that answer the question in the first lines, name a real author, and keep their FAQs in line with the rest of the page. How AI Overviews pick healthcare marketing sources explains what that means for your own website.

What are Catalyze Care's published fees?

Referral marketing $5,000/month with a 3-month minimum; SEO $799/month; paid ads $2,500/month management (media spend separate). Those are the prices we publish.

How should a mid-size provider group plan a marketing budget?

Name the gap first, then staff referral, SEO, and paid at $5,000 / $799 / $2,500. Channel mix, pause rules, and stack ownership: healthcare marketing budget planning for mid-size provider groups.

How do I choose between a referral retainer and a paid ads test month?

Referral at $5,000/month (3-month minimum) when other offices already send the specialty. Paid ads at $2,500/month plus media when openings need nearer-term demand. Hire neither if intake is full. How to choose between a referral retainer and a paid ads test month walks through the decision.

How should a practice set quarterly marketing OKRs?

Name the gap (referral, SEO, or paid), use published fees as budget anchors ($5,000 / $799 / $2,500), and write key results your intake team can check. Healthcare marketing quarterly OKRs for practices gives examples, and budget planning for mid-size provider groups covers the spend side.

What belongs on a healthcare marketing agency fee transparency checklist?

Line items, media vs management, minimums, account ownership, report fields, exit terms, and whether case studies are named with permission. Catalyze Care publishes $5,000 / $799 / $2,500. The full healthcare marketing agency fee transparency checklist covers each item.

How does Catalyze Care compare with Cardinal Digital Marketing?

Cardinal Digital Marketing publicly describes performance marketing for provider groups that want to scale, led by paid media, SEO, and media mix modeling. Catalyze Care starts with the doctors who already refer, then adds 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. See Catalyze Care vs Cardinal Digital Marketing for a side-by-side view, or Catalyze Care vs Healthcare Success for a second comparison.

How much does a healthcare marketing agency cost?

Healthcare marketing agencies usually charge a monthly fee for each channel they run, and ad spend is billed on top. Compare what each fee covers and how long the minimum term is, not just the monthly number. Catalyze Care publishes its fees: referral marketing $5,000/month (3-month minimum), SEO $799/month, and paid ads $2,500/month plus media.

Can one agency run referral marketing, SEO, and paid ads together?

Yes. Catalyze Care does that for therapy practices, psychiatry clinics, and multi-location specialty groups, with referral marketing first. Published fees are referral marketing $5,000/month with a 3-month minimum, SEO $799/month, and paid ads $2,500/month with media billed separately. Healthcare digital marketing shows how the three share one plan and one report.

What should happen in the first 30 days with a healthcare marketing agency?

Practice-owned account access, a walkthrough of how intake books patients, a signed targeting brief, tracking that keeps patient data out of ad platforms, and an agreed report format. Healthcare marketing agency onboarding lays out the first 30 days week by week.

Catalyze Care publishes fees ($5,000 / $799 / $2,500) and names case studies only with permission.

Talk to a healthcare marketing agency that already has the referral map

Share your practice details. We’ll walk through specialty, market, and which of referral, SEO, or paid ads should go first.