Business Development

Market & Demographic Analysis

To plan and measure the effectiveness of marketing investments, marketers must overcome numerous data challenges. Over the years Delta Rural Healthcare Services has developed a proven approach to data collection challenges that exist within healthcare entities. Delta will lead you through the entire process of gathering data, creating marketing mix models, and implementing results. We will help you to clearly define your target market segments and help you develop marketing strategies that appeal to each of these segments.

Product Development

Delta Rural Healthcare Services sees new product development as a proactive process where resources are allocated to identify market changes and seize upon new product opportunities before they occur (in contrast to a reactive strategy in which nothing is done until problems occur or a competitor introduces an innovation). Delta Care sees new product development as an ongoing process (referred to as continuous development) in which the entire organization is always looking for opportunities.

Because the Product Development process typically requires both engineering and marketing expertise, cross-functional teams are an efficient way of organizing projects. The Delta Rural Healthcare Services team stays with you through all developmental levels of the project, from initial idea generation to final commercialization. In the healthcare industry, where products are technically complex, development research is typically expensive, and product life cycles are relatively short; strategic alliances among several organizations helps to spread the costs, provide access to a wider skill set, and speeds the overall process. Delta will help you establish these alliances.

Market Expansion Strategies

Delta Rural Healthcare Services knows the size of the market is measured by demand. Market expansion can be achieved by concentration, integration, diversification, cooperation, and internationalization. Market expansion is one of the most common strategies in marketing and is precipitated by unfulfilled customer needs and wants, customer purchasing ability, and access to desired products and services. There are three basic ways of expanding you market: sales increase, new products, and new locations. Delta Rural Healthcare Services will define the course which is best for your company and provide the expertise you need to implement and execute your market expansion strategy.

Managed Care Contracting

Whether you are a Managed Care Organization (MAO) looking for providers to build your network or a provider considering joining an MAO, you need the experience of Delta Medical Care to protect your interests and provide you with cogent legal advice. Our team of legal consultants and contracting specialists will assure that you are protected. They say that the devil is in the details and even seemingly standard boiler-plate language can often have deleterious effects on your business interests…don’t risk it. Let Delta lead you through the quagmire of Managed Care Contracting.

Provider Network Development

Delta Rural Healthcare Services knows there are 6 basic considerations or goals of Provider Network Development, one or more of which is certain to impact your network development. These include:

  • Access and Availability
  • Continuity and coordination of care across delivery settings
  • Quality, costs and outcomes of health services
  • Use of Preventive services and health education
  • Accuracy and appropriateness of authorizations
  • Service utilization by priority populations

Through aggressive marketing and rigorous credentialing, Delta can help you develop a provider network which address all these considerations, thereby enhancing your quality of care and your profitability.

Licensing and Contracting Services

Overwhelmed by the confusing plethora of laws and regulations that you are required to address if you are to provide healthcare services? It is truly worsening as we march of into an uncertain future. Delta Medical Care has the experience and the expertise to walk you through quickly and expertly any licensing or contracting process that you may face . Our astute consultants and specialists know you do not need the burden of dealing with regulatory agencies and they will work diligently to represent your interests and relieve this burden.