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Healthcare PPC agency · for medical practices

Healthcare PPC that books patient appointments, not just ad clicks.

You hire a healthcare PPC agency to put your practice in front of patients ready to book today, not to chase clicks that never call. We run the campaign strategy, the landing page work, the call tracking, and the weekly optimization that drive cost per booked inquiry down and patient volume up. Senior buyers run your account from day one. Flat fees, no percentage of spend, no incentive to push your budget where it doesn't pay back.

Engagement
Google Ads · Microsoft · Meta
Typical timeline
Month-to-month after 90 days
Investment from
From $399/mo
// engagement spec FLAT-FEE
Account audit + plan
Wk 1–2
Build + launch
Wk 2–4
Optimization cadence
Weekly
Senior buyer dedicated
Always
From $399/moManagement · flat-fee · ad spend separate
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What healthcare PPC actually does

PPC services for healthcare organizations that need patients now.

Most healthcare PPC campaigns underperform for the same handful of reasons. The targeting is too broad. The landing page doesn't match the ad. Negative keywords aren't built out. Conversion tracking is leaky. Nobody optimizes the account after the launch. We run healthcare PPC services that fix all five at once, and we don't bill more if your ad spend grows.

Every campaign we ship is judged against one number: cost per booked patient inquiry. That number drives the keyword set, the ad copy, the landing page architecture, the bidding strategy, and the weekly optimization work. Impressions, click-through rate, and ad position show up on the dashboard for context, but they are never the optimization target.

See client outcomes

$22 to $48 typical CPL.

Cost per booked inquiry across active healthcare accounts. Specialty services trend higher, primary care trends lower.

Hyper-local targeting.

Radius targeting tuned to your actual patient draw, usually 3 to 10 miles. National keyword strategies don't work in healthcare.

Senior buyers, not interns.

The average buyer on the team has spent $40M+ across categories. The agency stays small on purpose. We won't dilute the team.

What's included

What you actually get in a healthcare PPC retainer.

Five disciplines run as one program. The same senior buyer on your account in week one is on it in month twelve. No bait-and-switch from sales to junior management.

Strategy before spend.

A working healthcare PPC program starts with a plan, not a launch. We map your service lines, your competitive context, your patient volume goals, and your real margin per service. Then we build a campaign structure designed to put your practice in front of the right patient at the right moment, for the smallest viable ad spend.

Phase duration
Weeks 1–2
Output
Written 30-page plan
// deliverables
  • Service-line keyword research
    Patient-intent keywords mapped to each service line you want to grow.
  • Match-type and negative keyword strategy
    Negatives built from day one to keep your budget off junk queries.
  • Offers and ad messaging
    Ad copy and offer structure rooted in real patient decision-making, not template language.
  • Budget allocation by service
    Spend flows to the services that return the most per booked inquiry.
  • Attribution plan
    Source and term attribution mapped end to end. Multi-touch where it matters.

Build the foundation right.

We set up the foundation correctly the first time. Campaign structure, conversion tracking, audience definitions, ad creative, and landing page alignment. Most healthcare accounts we audit have leaky tracking and inherited builds from the last agency. We rebuild it cleanly in weeks 2 to 4, before a single dollar of spend goes live.

Phase duration
Weeks 2–4
Conversions tracked
Server-side + offline
// deliverables
  • Campaign and ad group structure
    Granular structure aligned to service lines and patient intent stages.
  • Conversion tracking setup
    Pixel firing, server-side events, and offline conversion imports all wired correctly.
  • Ad creative production
    RSA copy, display banners, and ad extensions, all written by humans, not generated.
  • Landing page alignment
    Existing landing pages reviewed for message match. New ones built when the gap is wide.

Copy that earns the click.

Generic healthcare ad copy is a tax on your budget. Our writers research your patients, your local competitors, and your actual practice positioning before they write a single headline. Every ad maps to a buyer-stage problem. Symptom-driven searches get different copy than research-stage searches, and both get different copy than urgent-care searches.

Output
20–40 ads/month
Creative format
Static · video · RSA
// deliverables
  • Ad copywriting
    RSA headlines, descriptions, and ad extensions written by senior healthcare writers.
  • Static and video creative
    Display banners, Meta static, and short-form video for paid social.
  • Offer testing
    Offer architecture (free consult, first visit pricing, new patient promos) tested for CVR and unit economics.
  • Creative testing program
    Statistical creative testing every month. What wins, why, and what to scale next.

Smart bidding fed real signals.

Smart bidding only works if the signals are real. We feed Google your booked appointments, not just form fills, and your call data through call tracking. Server-side events route through GA4 server containers. Conversions API handles Meta. The dashboard your team sees is the same one we use to optimize, with no slide-deck filter in between.

Tracking model
Server-side + call tracking + offline
Update cadence
Real-time
// deliverables
  • Call tracking setup
    CallRail or similar. Calls attributed back to keyword, ad, and landing page.
  • Booking system integration
    Booked appointments fed back to Google as conversions so smart bidding has real signals.
  • Server-side tracking
    GA4 server-side plus Conversions API for Meta. Resilient to ad blockers and iOS privacy changes.
  • Live ROAS dashboard
    Looker Studio, refreshed daily. By campaign, by audience, by service line.

Reported against pipeline, not vanity.

Click-through rate and impression share are vanity metrics. We report against patient pipeline. Which campaigns produce booked inquiries. Which audiences close. Which service lines run the cheapest cost per booked inquiry. The dashboard is live, the monthly report is plain English, and the quarterly review covers what we'd change with another $10K of spend.

Dashboard
Live · always-on
Strategy review
Monthly call
// deliverables
  • Live dashboard
    Looker Studio. Spend to inquiry to booked, sliced by everything that matters.
  • Weekly performance review
    Same dashboard reviewed weekly with your dedicated account lead.
  • Monthly written report
    What moved, why, and what to do next. Written in plain English, not jargon.
  • Quarterly business review
    Half-day deep dive on program performance, unit economics, and the next quarter's bets.
Our process

How we run a healthcare PPC program.

The same operating cadence on every account. Auditable, time-boxed, and dashboard-transparent. You always know what shipped, what moved, and what's next.

STAGE 01. AUDIT

Find the leaks.

Account audit, tracking audit, creative review, and competitive positioning. You walk out with a written 90-day plan signed off before any spend goes live.

Weeks 1–2
STAGE 02. POSITION

Build the foundation.

Account restructure, tracking rebuild, creative production, and landing page work. Everything is approved before launch. No surprises in your inbox.

Weeks 2–4
STAGE 03. BUILD

Launch and iterate weekly.

Campaigns live by week 5. Weekly creative testing, weekly bid review, and monthly strategy sessions cover what's moving and where to push next.

Month 2+
STAGE 04. SCALE

Compound the wins.

Once the unit economics prove out, we scale spend at controlled velocity. You decide the ceiling. We make sure the floor stays profitable on the way up.

Month 4+
Why teams pick us

Why healthcare leaders pick us over generalist PPC agencies.

Three reasons that come up in every reference call our prospective clients run.

$22–$48
Typical CPL · booked inquiry

Healthcare-specific buyers.

We've spent millions on healthcare PPC across 22+ practices. Generalist agencies treat healthcare like local services, and the numbers show it.

Vertical-native
Flat
Fee model · not % of spend

Aligned incentives.

We bill flat. We make the same whether you spend $2,500 or $50,000 per month. So we recommend the spend that actually works for your patient volume goal.

No spend conflict
30d
Cancel notice · always

No long-term lock-in.

After the 90-day initial term, we run month to month with 30 days notice. Retention comes from the work, not the contract.

Month-to-month
By the numbers

What disciplined healthcare PPC actually delivers.

Median CPL · booked inquiry
$32
Across active healthcare accounts in the trailing 12 months. Specialty services trend higher.
Source: Internal benchmarks · 2025
Avg. CPL reduction Y1
-38%
Median cost per booked inquiry reduction in the first 12 months of a program.
Source: Aggregate accounts · 2025
Avg. wasted-spend recovered
$0.30/$
Median wasted-spend recovered per dollar in the first 90 days of an audit and restructure.
Source: Audit findings · 2025
Transparent monthly pricing

Healthcare PPC pricing that fits your stage.

Four monthly retainers. Flat management fees, ad spend billed separately to your account so you always own the data. Most growing practices pick Growth at $799/mo with $1,500 to $3,000 in monthly ad spend. 90-day minimum so the data has time to settle.

01. Launch
$399/mo

Single-channel campaigns for practices new to paid acquisition.

Best for
First-time paid advertisers
  • Google Ads management
  • 1–2 campaign types
  • Call tracking setup
  • Single landing page
  • Monthly performance review
  • $500–$1,500/mo ad spend
  • Meta & LinkedIn
  • Creative refresh
Start with Launch
03. Scale
$1,499/mo

Full-funnel paid program for multi-location practices.

Best for
Multi-location groups
  • Everything in Growth
  • Multi-channel (Google + Meta + LinkedIn)
  • Per-location campaign structure
  • Custom landing page system
  • Senior PPC strategist
  • Lifecycle automation
  • Custom Looker dashboards
  • $3,000–$10,000/mo ad spend
Start with Scale
04. Enterprise
From $2,500 /mo + spend

DSO and enterprise paid programs with a dedicated team and SLA.

Best for
Enterprise & DSOs
  • Everything in Scale
  • Dedicated paid media pod
  • Quarterly executive reviews
  • Custom attribution modeling
  • SLA-backed response
  • Per-location P&L dashboards
  • Annual scope rebid
  • $10,000+/mo ad spend
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SMB-friendly
PPC pays back fastest, but we won’t take you on if the math doesn’t work. Below roughly $500/mo in ad spend the management fee eats the budget. If you’re smaller than that today, we’ll point you at our SEO program or web design work first. Growth ($799/mo) is where most healthcare practices see the strongest blended ROAS.

90-day performance guarantee. Hit your agreed CPA target in 90 days or month 4 is free. Free Google Ads audit available for accounts spending $5K+/mo.
FAQ

Questions healthcare leaders ask before they sign on.

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What's included in your healthcare PPC services?

Five disciplines run together as one program: campaign strategy plus targeting, account and campaign setup, ad copy plus offer development, tracking plus optimization, and reporting plus growth. Every tier on this page covers all five. All work is run by senior buyers and billed flat-fee. You always own the ad account and the data.

Does PPC actually work for healthcare practices?

For most healthcare practices, yes. PPC produces booked appointments faster than any other channel because it captures patients at the moment they are ready to act. The exception is heavily regulated categories where ad approval is restrictive (some pharmaceutical and device-related work). We'll tell you on the strategy call whether your specialty falls inside the constraints or outside them.

Do you specialize in campaign-level work or just account oversight?

Campaign-level work is the core of what we do. Account structure, ad group design, keyword research, creative testing, bid management, and landing page alignment all run as one workflow under one senior buyer. We don't subcontract the actual ad operations to junior staff.

How do you target patients without crossing HIPAA lines?

HIPAA-aware audience targeting is built into every account. We never feed PHI to ad platforms. Custom intent audiences, in-market segments, and demographic plus geographic layers all sit on top of intent-driven keyword targeting. Customer match is used only when the data path through our hosting partners is BAA-covered. Anything Google or Meta restricts in health categories stays off the account.

How do you measure success of healthcare PPC campaigns?

Booked patient inquiries. Measured through call tracking, form attribution, and offline conversion imports back from your booking system or CRM. Vanity metrics like impressions, CTR, and click count are visible on the dashboard for context, but they are never the optimization target. Your CFO can audit the math from the same dashboard we work from.

How do you track conversions?

Server-side tracking through GA4 server containers, Conversions API for Meta, call tracking via CallRail or similar, and offline conversion imports from your CRM. Most healthcare accounts we audit have leaky tracking that smart bidding can't optimize against. We rebuild the tracking layer inside the first 30 days, before any spend goes live.

How do you optimize for return, not just volume?

Weekly bid review, monthly creative testing, and quarterly account reviews. We measure return as cost per booked inquiry and as marginal efficiency on the next dollar of spend. If a campaign produces lots of cheap junk leads, that's a problem, not a win. Quality is graded against booked appointments, not raw form fills.

What ad spend should we plan for?

It depends on your tier and your local competitive context. Launch supports $500 to $1,500 in monthly ad spend. Growth (most popular) targets $1,500 to $3,000. Scale runs $3,000 to $10,000. Enterprise sits above $10,000. We model the right number on the strategy call against your patient volume goal, not against a one-size-fits-all template.

Do you produce ad creative in-house?

Yes. Static and motion creative both produced in-house. Most practices have brand assets we can adapt. Some need original photography or short-form video, which we can shoot or commission through our partner network. Creative is never an upsell. It's part of every retainer at the tier you're on.

How do you handle A/B testing?

Statistical A/B testing with proper sample size calculations and significance thresholds. We don't declare winners on small samples or short windows. Most ad groups run 3 to 5 active variants at a time, with new variants introduced weekly. The dashboard shows what's lifting and what's not, with the math behind it.

How often do you optimize the account?

Weekly bid and budget review, bi-weekly creative review, and monthly account-level optimization. The dashboard updates in real time, so anomalies get caught between scheduled reviews. Nothing about your account sits untouched for weeks waiting for a quarterly call.