Texas Health Physicians Group (THPG) is Texas Health Resources’ not-for-profit physician organization. Committed to ensuring the healthcare professionals in their network have the resources to reach more people in need of safe, quality care, THPG provides integrated back-office and administrative support for over 700 physicians within 150 practices, 34 cities and 14 specialty focuses. They have a marketing department solely dedicated to driving patient acquisition for all of the practices.
Develop a digital plan and metrics to help THGP’s marketing department get new patients coming through the door of each practice within every specialty focus – without compromising overall quality of lead and ROI. It came down to this: How to utilize the power of the group to better serve the individual.
Create a digital program that leverages efficiencies gained through group marketing to deliver specialty-focused messaging to a wider audience (i.e. more bang for the buck), yet still provide flexibility for individual practices that need incremental support.
We started with a 50-practice pilot program built around “finding a physician” for a specialty need in a specific city. Patients searching for information about their specialized medical needs, i.e. bariatrics, primary care, etc., were driven to condition-specific content designed to educate them a bit about treatment options, physicians in their area – and prompt them to sign up to learn more and/or schedule a consultation.
Once a person in need of specialized medical treatment begins seriously researching their condition, it takes 2-6 weeks before they decide to schedule an appointment with a physician.
FULL LAUNCH
From driving patient traffic to building THPG and physician trust to lead nurturing, the campaign has been hailed as so successful, it is being rolled out to fully support all 150 of THPG’s physician practices.