What does orthopedic surgeon marketing actually include?+
End-to-end specialty growth: per-procedure landing pages with schema for knee replacement, hip replacement, spine surgery, shoulder surgery and sports injuries; Google Business Profile management for the local 3-pack; daily reputation operations across Google, Practo, Lybrate and Justdial with a 2-hour response SLA; educational authority content (procedure videos, recovery carousels, surgery vs. physio guides); a post-discharge WhatsApp care sequence that generates reviews from recovered patients; sports medicine positioning for the 18–40 segment; and monthly reporting tied to direct consultation volume, not impressions.
How do you reduce dependence on GP referrals?+
GP referrals remain valuable — we never tell you to abandon them. But we build a parallel direct-to-patient digital channel so a single referral relationship change can't crater your OPD. The mechanism: treatment-level SEO that captures patients researching procedures independently; educational YouTube and Instagram content that builds direct surgeon-patient trust before the GP appointment; and a Google Business Profile that converts 'best orthopedic surgeon [city]' searches directly into booked consultations. Over 12 months, most partners shift from 90% referral-dependent to 60–65%, with the direct channel growing every month.
How do you handle procedure explanation content — is it medically accurate?+
Every piece of educational content is written by our healthcare-only team and reviewed against MCI/NMC guidelines, current surgical literature, and your own clinical inputs before publication. We don't use generic anatomy descriptions — we script procedure walkthroughs, recovery timelines and outcome expectations in the specific language of your surgical subspecialty. You approve a content brief on day one and have editorial control on anything you want to flag. We've never lost a partner over clinical accuracy.
Can you position both joint replacement and sports medicine for the same surgeon?+
Yes — and it requires two distinct brand surfaces, not one confusing combined page. Joint replacement (typically 55–75-year-old patient, decision via GP and family) gets a trust-first, outcomes-focused, educational content approach. Sports medicine (18–40-year-old patient, high social-media savvy, returning to sport) gets Reels, athlete stories, return-to-sport timelines and Instagram positioning. Both live under the same surgeon profile — but the content, SEO strategy and distribution channels are separate. We set this up on day one.
How do you handle negative reviews from patients in early recovery?+
This is the most important reputation problem for orthopedics — and we've built specifically for it. First, we deploy a post-discharge WhatsApp care sequence that provides genuine value (pain management tips, physio exercise videos, 'what's normal at week 2' content) and builds rapport during the recovery period. When patients are discharged successfully at 6–8 weeks, we trigger the review ask — from recovered, satisfied patients, not week-1 pain patients. Second, our 2-hour response SLA means any negative review gets a thoughtful, empathetic response before it escalates. Third, the volume of positive reviews from recovered patients dilutes the early-recovery negatives.
How long does it take to rank for 'best orthopedic surgeon [city]'?+
Two parallel tracks. The Google Maps 3-pack (the pinned listings that appear before organic results) is driven by GBP completeness, review velocity, and proximity — most partners enter the 3-pack within 4–6 months for their primary terms. Organic rankings for procedure-specific queries ('knee replacement surgeon Bangalore', 'spine surgery [city]') typically reach page 1 within 6–9 months, depending on competition in your city. We track both every week and publish a ranking dashboard monthly.
We already have a strong hospital affiliation — do we still need this?+
Hospital affiliations drive inpatient volume. They do almost nothing for outpatient consultation volume in the digital age — because patients now research surgeons independently before their GP referral even happens. If your OPD depends entirely on your hospital's referring GPs, you're one regime change away from a volume problem. We build the direct digital channel that means your OPD is yours, regardless of hospital politics.
How is this different from a general healthcare marketing agency?+
Three things. (1) We work only with healthcare — every script, every procedure explainer, every response template is tuned to orthopedics specifically. (2) Every asset is reviewed against NMC guidelines, DPDP Act 2023, and the Consumer Protection Act before it ships — no therapeutic claims, no comparison advertising, no patient identifiers without consent. (3) We measure outcomes: direct consultation volume, procedure-query rankings, review velocity, and referral-vs-direct attribution — not impressions or follower counts.
What does orthopedic surgeon marketing cost?+
Plans start at ₹65,000/mo for the Specialist tier (single surgeon, core procedure SEO + reputation OS). The Practice plan at ₹1,40,000/mo covers full educational content engine, sports medicine social, sports injury Reels, procedure landing pages and retention sequences. Multi-surgeon and hospital-based orthopedic groups get custom pricing. Every plan above Specialist carries a 90-day performance guarantee — if direct consultation volume hasn't grown and review velocity hasn't 3× by day 90, we refund the previous 30 days.