BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT
- to grow the vascular program at MIMIT Health
- Develop the competency in professional business development.
Channels
- Digital & Direct
- Online & offline
- virtual & face-to-face
Direct marketing
- has the best return on investment (ROI) for most medical specialty practices
OBJECTIVE :
- We are seeking to find patients with vascular disease to diagnose and treat (PAD, veins, wounds)
Direct to referring physician ( provider) marketing
Who to target
- • Physicians
- • Primary care
- • Endocrinologist
- • APNs
- • Wound care nurses
- • SNF nurses
- • SNF admin
- • Administrator and Assistant admin
- • Director of nursing (DON) & assistant
- • Podiatrists
- • Primary care
Effective PHYSICIAN (PROVIDER) RELATIONSHIP MARKETING PROGRAM
- has a powerful impact on the growth of the vascular practice by
- increasing patient referrals and subsequent consultations / procedures
Strategy
- Develop a relationship marketing program knowledgebase & state-of-the-art systems and tools for business development
- Develop an effective team of Provider relations managersaka Provider (physician) Liaisons.
- dedicated professionals who
- represent MIMIT Health in an effort to establish and strengthen the relationship between existing / potential referring physicians (providers) and MIMIT HEALTH
- expand relationships with existing and potential referring practices.
- maintain and grow the patient referral base for MIMIT Health
- maintain an open line of communication with referring physicians (providers)
- perform diligent community outreach
- represent MIMIT Health in an effort to establish and strengthen the relationship between existing / potential referring physicians (providers) and MIMIT HEALTH
Profile of an effective provider relationship manager
- trained in professional sales and listening skills
- Is part customer service, part sales, part consultant, and a few other roles mixed in
- trained to ask questions and listen to the needs of the referring provider /physician.
- Referring physicians don’t want to be told, they want to be heard and then reassured that patients that they refer to your practice will receive adequate care that reflects positively on the referring physician.
- Are trained very well to ask the right questions that meet the needs of their clients in a professional manner.
- Represents MIMIT Health and acts as an EXTENSION of the doctor while cultivating relationships
- Becomes the GLUE between IMIMIT and referring offices and facilities
- Visits referring physicians’ offices regularly with updates on services & referral materials and to followup on satisfaction with the referral relationship
An effective provider relationship manager will
- develop and follow the marketing strategy
- manage their time well
- prioritize their referring physician target list
- identify hidden decision makers
- respond in a timely manner
- develop relationship development tools that referring physicians value which get their foot in the door
- Build honest effective relationships that result in trust and reliability
- Emphasizes the value of MIMIT Health being a cutting edge, leading, best-of-practice, fully digitally transformed health care organization
- Uses all the systems and tools very effectively and effectively, salesforce.com and other communication and collaboration systems and tools
- Use the best of practice CRM tools in Salesforce. Com, marketing cloud, healthcloud etc, for Provider Relationship Management
- Locates and secures business from new referral sources, promotes services, treatments, and providers, strengthens reputation, managing negative feedback, keeping mimit health aware of changes in the market place.
- Seek to establish a new referral relationship & make frequent stops into the offices of referral partners to create a connection, distribute material, and schedule face-to-face time with the physician hey represent and the potential referring physicians.
Develop a territory ( Service area) call schedule
- develop a call schedule by territory ( Service area) that
- targets specific referring providers /physicians who meet a predetermined “best-fit” criteria for referring to Mimit health .
- Avoid a newspaper route style standard cycle of “deliveries” without regard to the referring provider’s needs
- Visit referring physicians’ offices regularly with updates on services & referral materials and to followup on satisfaction with the referral relationship.
- provide valuable customer service as needed
Relationship between Provider relationship marketing and other Advertising / digital marketing efforts
- Provider relationship ( direct) marketing Program and advertising marketing Programs are complimentary but separate programs with their own strategic goals, implementation plan, budget and ROI measurements of success.
Assessing referring provider needs
- Avoid excessive information download to referring providers
- work toward having MIMIT Health viewed as a patient centered trusted clinical advisor and not a pusher of treatment options. Mimit Health cares for the patient.
- The relationship manager should have learned to have a “consultative conversation” with the referring providers and/or their staff, and know the questions to ask to uncover the referring physician’s specic challenges and needs
Market research
- Locates and secures business from new referral sources
- keeps Mimit Health aware of changes in the market place.
- Know the market ( territory) and maintain referring provider 360 view in Salesforce
- Use SFDC provider and account profiles and keep them up to date
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