Acquiring a healthcare customer can cost 12 times what retaining one costs, yet almost every GTM org is built around new logos. Alexis Anderson breaks down the three places renewals actually break: the sales-to-CS handoff, surface-level adoption tracking, and committee drift across an 18 to 24 month contract. If your relationship is single-threaded, the renewal is already at risk.
Key takeaways:
Acquisition can run 12-to-1 against retention once implementation, sales, and marketing are counted
Bain & Company: a 5% increase in retention grows profits 25% to 95%
Hospital CEO turnover of 15% to 18% per year means the buying committee will change mid-contract
Login and session data does not tell you whether the promised behavior change happened
McKinsey: roughly 70% of large-scale change initiatives fail, making implementation a change management problem
Net revenue retention is the clearest indicator of a functioning healthtech business
Do this today:
Build a full stakeholder map for your three largest accounts, including past objections and each stakeholder's definition of success
Write down what the CFO needs to see by month six and send it to the customer for agreement
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