TMS Clinic Marketing Agency

The short answer

TMS marketing is how a clinic generates consults for transcranial magnetic stimulation and moves those consults through insurance to a started course of treatment. TMS devices carry FDA clearance rather than approval, and ad copy has to say so. Coverage almost always requires documented failure of prior antidepressant trials, so patients are disqualified at benefits verification rather than at the ad. A standard course runs about 36 sessions over six weeks, which puts the money in the show rate rather than the click.

consult requests per month across TMS clients — verify with Tim

Consult requests produced for TMS clinics monthly

typical cost per started course of treatment — confirm

Cost per started course

Cost per consult is not cost per patient

The TMS funnel has five steps, and most clinics only measure the first two. Click, consult request, benefits verification, prior authorization, first session. Patients fall out hardest at verification, because commercial and Medicare policies want documented failure of prior antidepressant trials at adequate dose and duration, and often a documented course of psychotherapy on top of that.

A clinic buying on cost per lead will happily pay for a channel that produces cheap consults nobody can authorize. We measure to the started course, which sometimes means paying more per inquiry and ending the month with more chairs full. share of TMS inquiries that clear benefits verification — verify with Tim

The practical fix starts before the ad: the consult request form should ask which antidepressants have been tried and which plan the patient carries, so your benefits coordinator gets a usable lead instead of a name and an email.

You are competing with the device manufacturer's own funnel

NeuroStar and BrainsWay run national direct-to-consumer advertising and send that demand into their own provider locators. Patients arrive already holding a brand name and search for it plus a city. If your locator listing has an old address, or your site never names the device you run, that campaign hands the patient to the clinic across town.

Brand terms cut both ways. Bidding on and ranking for the device you actually operate is legitimate and it is where the highest-intent traffic is. It also has to be accurate, because claiming a system you do not run is a fast way to a manufacturer complaint.

Referrals matter more here than in most of behavioral health. The psychiatrist who has already exhausted two medication trials with a patient is the single best source of an authorizable consult, and almost no TMS clinic markets to prescribers with anything more than a lunch.

TMS Clinic Marketing: how we run it for tms clinics

Device brand and protocol search

NeuroStar, BrainsWay deep TMS, MagVenture, and accelerated protocols including SAINT, each on its own page with the city attached. This is the highest-intent traffic in the category and most clinics never claim it.

Consult pages that pre-qualify

A form that asks about prior medication trials and insurance plan, written so it does not feel like an interrogation. The benefits team gets a lead they can work the same day instead of a name to chase.

Prescriber referral marketing

Outreach and materials aimed at psychiatrists, primary care, and therapy practices, because a referred patient usually arrives with the documented treatment history that authorization requires.

Local search and locator listings

Google Business Profile per location plus the manufacturer provider locators, kept accurate. Wrong data in a locator quietly redirects manufacturer-funded demand to a competitor.

Tracking to started course, not to form fill

Call tracking by campaign, a handoff into your CRM, and reporting that ends at courses started and cost per course. That is the number that decides whether the marketing paid for itself.

Services

What we would run here

Search engine optimization

Other agencies report positions; we report phone calls. Every keyword we chase is one a family types when they are ready to place someone, and every call traces back to the page that earned it.

PPC management

Our best-fit accounts run $50,000 to $100,000 a month through Google. Run right, paid search is the only channel that produces admissions this month; run badly, it funds your competitors' research.

Lead generation

Lead generation in this industry has a bad name for good reasons: the same inquiry sold to four facilities, per-admission deals that violate federal law, dashboards full of form fills nobody answered. We build the opposite — your own inquiry flow, on your own numbers, tracked to the admission.

Call tracking and analytics

Every page, every campaign, and every listing gets its own number. When admissions picks up, we already know what made the phone ring.

Metrics and reporting

You have been sent a report full of numbers that went up while admissions stayed flat. We report calls, qualified calls, and cost per admission by channel, and we show the math.

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Compliance

The rules that apply to this category

This is the part that catches agencies who have not worked in this category before.

Cleared, not approved

TMS systems reach market through FDA 510(k) clearance. Copy saying FDA-approved is inaccurate and is the first thing a competitor or a manufacturer flags. Clearances are also indication-specific: major depressive disorder, OCD, and other indications were cleared separately and by device. Advertising a use your device is not cleared for is off-label promotion.

Coverage claims

Blanket statements that TMS is covered by insurance generate angry patients and chargebacks. Medicare local coverage determinations and commercial medical policies set criteria, typically two to four failed antidepressant trials at adequate dose and duration. Say what the criteria generally are and offer to verify, rather than promising coverage on a landing page.

Outcome claims and testimonials

The FTC requires competent and reliable scientific evidence behind health claims, and its rule on consumer reviews prohibits fake or incentivized testimonials presented as independent. Response and remission figures should be cited to published trials, not to an internal number nobody can produce on request. clinic's own outcome data and its source — verify before any figure is published

The pre-qualification form is PHI

A form asking which antidepressants a patient has taken creates protected health information the moment it is submitted. It cannot live in a generic form tool with a marketing pixel on the page. We route those submissions through your covered systems and keep third-party tracking off the page.

Written on this in more depth

No gate and no form. These go further than a services page reasonably can.

PPC for TMS clinics

PPC advertising for TMS clinics built around treatment-resistant depression intent, insurance prior authorization, and calls tracked to booked consults.

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FAQ

Questions we get asked

What does a TMS consult actually cost to generate?

Ask what a started course costs instead. The cost-per-consult number clinics quote each other counts consults that could never clear benefits verification, so a cheap consult and an empty chair look the same on that report. Cost per started course is the figure that tells you whether the month paid. typical cost per consult and per started course across TMS clients — verify with Tim

Should we bid on NeuroStar or BrainsWay brand terms?

If you operate the device, yes. Patients see the manufacturer's national advertising and then search the brand plus their city, and that is the most qualified traffic in the category. Make sure your provider locator listing is accurate at the same time, or you are paying to compete with a free listing you already own.

Why do so many of our inquiries never start treatment?

Usually because coverage requires documented failure of prior antidepressant trials and the patient does not have that history, or the records are with a prescriber nobody has contacted. This is a qualification problem, not an advertising problem. Asking about prior medications on the consult form fixes most of it, and prescriber referrals fix the rest.

Can we advertise TMS for anxiety, PTSD, or chronic pain?

Only where your specific device holds clearance for that indication, and clearances differ by manufacturer. Advertising an uncleared use is off-label promotion, and it is a common reason TMS ads get pulled. We check the clearance for the system you run before anything goes live.

How fast does this work?

Paid search and locator cleanup produce consult requests in the first few weeks. Organic on device and city queries takes three to six months. Prescriber referral work is slow to start and the most durable channel once it does.

We tried a general medical marketing agency and it did not work. Why?

Because a general agency aims at the form fill, which in TMS is the wrong finish line. The benefits check, the prior authorization, and the 36 visits decide whether the marketing paid. If nobody is tracking to a started course, the campaign looks fine on a dashboard while the chairs stay empty.

Free audit

Find out where your calls are leaking.

We take apart your rankings, your ads, and your call tracking, then show you where the calls are going instead of to you. The audit is yours to keep whether we work together or not.

Prefer the phone? (561) 269-2833