Pricing model · Medical practices

Flat-Fee Advertising for Medical Practices

Engage Ads charges a flat monthly fee to run advertising for elective medical practices. We do not take a percentage of ad spend and we do not require a long-term contract. That means our fee does not rise when your budget rises, so recommendations about budget are made on the numbers rather than on what they earn us.

The problem with percentage-of-spend pricing

Most agencies charge a percentage of your ad budget, typically 10 to 20%. It is the industry default, and it contains a structural conflict that is rarely stated out loud.

Under that model, the agency's revenue goes up when your spend goes up, whether or not the spend is producing patients. Every incentive points one direction:

  • Recommending a budget increase is always in the agency's interest
  • Recommending a budget cut costs the agency money, even when cutting is correct
  • Killing an underperforming campaign reduces the agency's own invoice
  • There is no financial reason to make your spend more efficient, because efficiency lowers their fee

None of this requires anyone to act in bad faith. It just means that when the honest answer is "stop spending on this," the agency has to argue against its own revenue to say it. Most people, most of the time, do not.

What flat fee changes

You pay the same monthly fee whether your ad budget is $3,000 or $30,000. Consequences:

Budget advice becomes credible. When we say increase spend, it is because cost per booked procedure supports it. When we say cut a campaign, saying so costs us nothing.

Efficiency is not punished. If we halve your cost per booked patient, you keep the savings. Under percentage pricing, improving your efficiency reduces what your agency earns.

Your costs are predictable. Scaling ad spend during a strong quarter does not silently increase your agency bill at the same time.

Scaling is not a negotiation. Doubling budget doubles the media, not the management fee.

What you actually get

One team running three systems together:

  • Meta ads: Facebook and Instagram, where elective demand is created
  • Answer engine and search optimization, so patients find you on Google and get you named by ChatGPT, Gemini and Perplexity
  • Follow-up automation: text and email sequences that run until the patient books

Plus HIPAA-aware tracking, compliance-reviewed creative, and weekly reporting in leads, cost per lead and follow-up status.

We publish our actual campaign numbers rather than rounded case-study claims. The dataset, methodology and limitations are in the 2026 Georgia Medical Practice Advertising Benchmark, including what we could not measure.

What we do not do

Worth being direct, because it saves everyone a call:

  • We do not take a percentage of ad spend, and we will not restructure to do so
  • We do not lock you into a long-term contract
  • We do not report success in impressions, reach or engagement
  • We do not work with practices whose economics do not support paid acquisition. If a new patient is worth $150 to you, paid advertising is probably the wrong channel and we will say so in the audit rather than sell you a retainer

Who this fits

Elective and cash-pay practices where one new patient is worth four figures or more: med spas, dental, dermatology, chiropractic, ENT and similar. Enough capacity to take new patients, and someone who answers the phone.

Frequently asked questions

How much is the flat fee?

It depends on scope, how many channels, how many locations, how much creative production. The 30-minute audit establishes the scope and we quote from there. What does not change is the structure: one monthly number, no percentage of spend.

Is flat fee more expensive for small budgets?

It can be. If you are spending $1,500 a month on ads, a percentage-based agency will invoice you less than we will. That is a legitimate reason to choose one. Flat fee gets better for you the more you spend, which is also the point at which the incentive conflict starts to matter.

Who owns the ad accounts?

You do. Your Meta and Google accounts stay in your name with your billing. If you leave, the accounts, the data and the campaign history stay with you.

Is there a setup fee?

Yes, a one-time $250 to $500 depending on what has to be built: tracking installation, account structure, creative production and automation build. It is quoted once, up front, in the proposal.

What if it does not work?

The term is six or twelve months, not open-ended, so the point is to catch it early: weekly reporting on leads and cost per lead means you will see it not working early rather than at the end of a twelve-month term.

Do you take a percentage if we scale to a large budget?

No. That is the whole proposition. A practice spending $30,000 a month pays the same management fee as one spending $5,000.

Book a free 30-minute practice audit

We review your ad accounts, procedure economics and intake flow, then send a written assessment, including whether paid advertising is the right channel for you at all.

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