PE-backed multi-location orthopedic urgent care group
Paid media was buying the wrong patients, and nobody could prove it
Situation
A private-equity-backed urgent care group was spending steadily on paid channels while the analytics function ran on spreadsheets. Marketing reported conversions. Operations reported that the leads were not worth much. Both were right.
Constraint
Nothing connected an ad click to what the resulting patient was actually worth, so bidding optimized toward whichever conversion was cheapest to produce. Meanwhile the reporting layer that would have exposed the gap was manual, slow, and trusted by almost nobody.
Intervention
Rebuilt acquisition around return on ad spend rather than raw conversion volume, and replaced spreadsheet analytics with an integrated data ecosystem connected to parent-company infrastructure. Separately rebuilt the website, local search presence, and conversion pathways, and automated the record and claims ingestion that staff had been doing by hand.
Outcome
- reduction in paid acquisition cost
62%
reduction in paid acquisition cost
- improvement in lead quality
30–100%
improvement in lead quality
- annual labor cost removed
$200K
annual labor cost removed
- further annual savings from ingestion automation
$45K
further annual savings from ingestion automation
- reduction in claims overdue past 60 days
83%
reduction in claims overdue past 60 days
- site traffic growth / warm lead growth
4x / 27x
site traffic growth / warm lead growth
What matters
The marketing problem and the data problem were the same problem. Fixing either one alone would have produced a fraction of the result.