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Fractional CMO for MedTech & Medical Device

Marketing leadership built for the gap between clinical approval and commercial adoption — navigating reimbursement complexity, hospital procurement, surgeon champions, and enterprise health system sales cycles.

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The MedTech Marketing Problem

Getting FDA Clearance Is the Beginning — Not the End

Medical device and MedTech companies often invest years and significant capital reaching clearance or approval — and then discover that commercial adoption requires an entirely different set of competencies. The transition from regulatory milestone to revenue is where many MedTech companies stall.

Clinical Adoption vs. Commercial Adoption

A surgeon champion who loves your device is not the same as a commercial account. Hospital procurement, value analysis committees, and GPO contracting all require a parallel commercial strategy that most clinical teams aren't equipped to run.

Reimbursement & Coding Complexity

Payer coverage, CPT coding, and reimbursement pathways aren't just a market access problem — they're a marketing message problem. If your buyers can't understand the economic argument alongside the clinical one, adoption stalls.

Proving ROI to Hospital Administration

Hospital C-suites and value analysis committees evaluate devices through a financial lens: supply chain cost, OR efficiency, length of stay, readmission rates. Marketing materials that only speak to clinical outcomes leave money on the table.

The Enterprise Hospital Sales Cycle

Selling into IDNs and large health systems means navigating IT, clinical leadership, supply chain, legal, and finance — often across multiple sites and departments. Marketing needs to support the entire journey, not just awareness.

First Commercial Launch Without a Commercial Team

Many MedTech companies reach clearance with a science team, a regulatory team, and a founder — but no marketing or commercial infrastructure. Building that from scratch while managing launch pressure is one of the hardest commercial challenges in the industry.

Digital Presence Lagging Clinical Reality

Most MedTech companies are invisible online — no SEO strategy, minimal content, and no digital lead generation. As clinician and administrator research habits shift to AI-driven search, the cost of digital invisibility is rising.

What We Do Together

Fractional CMO Services for MedTech & Medical Device

BentonNewell provides the senior commercial marketing leadership that MedTech companies need to bridge the gap between clinical validation and commercial scale — building the infrastructure, messaging, and pipeline motion that drives adoption at health systems, surgical centers, and physician organizations.

Dana Newell brings cross-functional experience across healthcare operations, hospital systems, and B2B commercial strategy — which means the GTM approach we develop accounts for the full procurement reality your buyers operate in, not just the clinical selling motion.

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  • Commercial Launch Strategy Post-clearance go-to-market planning — ICP definition, channel strategy, pricing narrative, and launch execution aligned with your sales team and regulatory constraints.
  • Clinical & Economic Value Messaging Develop messaging that speaks to surgeon champions on clinical outcomes AND to hospital administration on financial ROI — simultaneously, in the right language for each.
  • Value Analysis Committee (VAC) Support Build the supporting materials, economic models, and comparative evidence packages your field team needs to move through hospital procurement and VAC approval.
  • Digital Visibility & SEO/AEO Strategy Build the digital presence your device needs as clinician research increasingly moves online and into AI search tools — content strategy, SEO, and AEO optimization for the medtech category.
  • Conference & Peer Engagement Strategy Maximize every conference investment with pre-event, at-event, and post-event commercial strategy — turning clinical presentations into commercial pipeline.
  • Pipeline Infrastructure & CRM Setup Build the commercial infrastructure — CRM, pipeline metrics, lead scoring — that gives your investors and board visibility into commercial progress and supports your next round.

Who This Is For

MedTech Companies at a Commercial Turning Point

BentonNewell works best with medical device and MedTech companies that have reached a regulatory milestone and are building toward commercial scale — whether first launch, expansion into new account types, or scaling beyond early adopters.

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Surgical & Interventional

Surgical devices, robotic-assisted surgery, interventional tools, and minimally invasive technology

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Connected & Wearable Devices

Remote monitoring devices, wearables, continuous monitoring systems, and connected care hardware

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Capital Equipment

Imaging systems, diagnostic hardware, and capital equipment selling into hospital and ASC procurement

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First Commercial Launch

MedTech startups building their first commercial infrastructure post-510(k) or PMA clearance

Why BentonNewell

Healthcare Operations Experience That Informs Commercial Strategy

Most MedTech marketing agencies understand marketing. What they don't understand is how hospital procurement actually works — the internal dynamics of a VAC, how supply chain evaluates vendor relationships, what a CFO needs to see to approve a capital purchase, or how an OR director thinks about workflow disruption.

Dana Newell brings experience inside healthcare organizations, not just selling to them. That inside perspective shapes every commercial strategy we develop — from how we position the device, to how we support field sales, to how we build materials that survive the VAC process.

BentonNewell also provides fractional COO services — which means we can help MedTech companies align their commercial operations, not just their marketing messaging, to support scale.

MedTech & Healthcare Experience Includes:

  • Hospital & health system commercial strategy
  • Multi-site healthcare operations (<$100M P&L)
  • Clinical & economic value messaging
  • Physician organization market entry
  • Revenue cycle & procurement process expertise
  • AEO/GEO digital strategy for regulated markets

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Ready to Scale Beyond Early Adoption?

Let's Talk About Your MedTech Commercial Strategy

Most engagements start with a 30-minute discovery call. No pitch — just a real conversation about where you are and what it will take to get to commercial scale.

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