Case study

A Behavioral Health Care Provider grew patient volume 13% over three years

Categories
Revenue OperationsSalesMarketing
Solutions provided
Segmentation + ICP
Data Cleansing
RevOps Execution
CRM Configuration
KPI Dashboards
Sales Enablement
The key insight

Patient volume grew 13% over three years by cleaning referral data, clarifying BDL territories, configuring the CRM to track outreach, and running a weekly pipeline cadence.

Results at a glance
13%
Patient volume, 3 yrs
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The behavioral health provider needed to grow patient volume across inpatient and outpatient programs. Growth depended on a stronger referral engine and better field coverage, but the team did not have clean referral data, clear territory ownership, or reliable reporting to scale outreach and expansion decisions.

The challenge

Execution was slowed by basic operating gaps:

No trusted, up-to-date referral source list to work from.
Duplicates and missing contact data made outreach inconsistent
Territory ownership and coverage priorities were unclear for BDLs
No consistent outreach workflow to track progress from contact to active referrer
Limited reporting on activity, conversion, and referral impact
The Cortado Group solution
Diligence and Cleanup Sprint

Pulled referral lists and CRM data, reconciled sources, and created one working universe of referral targets.

Data Fix and De-dupe

Standardized fields, resolved duplicates, and flagged records that needed merge or removal to improve data integrity.

Territory Buildout

Assigned territories and built prioritized target lists by market so each BDL knew who to work, where, and why.

BDL Outreach Process

Defined stages, required steps, and follow-up expectations so outreach moved consistently from first touch to active referrer.

CRM Configuration

Set up stages, fields, and tracking to capture outreach activity, meetings, referrals, and outcomes in one place.

Pipeline Reporting and Cadence

Built dashboards and launched a weekly operating cadence to review coverage, activity, conversions, and next actions.

Adoption Support

Trained the team and worked alongside them to tighten reporting and improve usage in the first cycles.

Results
13%
Patient volume, 3 yrs
Identified 3 priority geographies for added BDL: coverage: Boston, Santa Clara/Alameda, Orange County/Newport Beach.
Supported the decision to open 3 new: facilities: Denver, Austin, Houston.
Drove 15% patient-volume growth over 3 years: versus 3 to 5% industry growth.
Improved data integrity: by flagging 4,000+ referral-source records for keep or merge to resolve duplicates.
Validated contactability: through testing: a sample of 100 referents showed about 80% had good contact data.
Quantified expansion opportunity, including 1,415 A-tier inpatient: referents across the top BDL expansion areas.
Put in place a CRM and reporting: foundation to track territory coverage, outreach activity, and performance.