Control costs while showing employees you care—with expert medical second opinions
Medical second opinions made easy: a smarter healthcare solution
While healthcare costs are rising steeply, a second opinion can help your employees achieve better health outcomes while helping you contain expenses.
Global Second Opinion (GSO) is a physician-founded service that enables access to certified medical second opinions from the world’s top academic medical centers through a proprietary, secure and fully digital platform
GSO is designed specifically to support employees who are faced with life-altering medical decisions, and provides employers with smarter healthcare cost management solutions.
It’s a turnkey service and benefit that is clinically sound, cost-effective, and ready to deploy anytime—not just during open enrollment.
Why second opinions matter
88% lead to refinement or correction of the initial diagnosis
58% significantly influence medical outcomes
41% suggest alternative or supplementary treatments
Up to 30% of surgeries are avoided or prevented
$8,700 - $100,000 average healthcare costs saved per patient (> $100,000 saved per high-cost cases)
Source: Cleveland Clinic
Why employers choose GSO
Access to leading Academic Centers of Excellence with combined 20,000+ physicians that set standards of care (vs. individual free-lance clinicians).
Detailed, certified GSO Second Opinion Report delivered in just 7–10 days with unbiased, un-contestable, certified second opinions
Support for any complex diagnoses, rare diseases, and high-cost decisions.
Results:up to 30% reduction in unnecessary surgeries improves medical loss ratio (MLR) and cost containment
Enhanced employee loyalty, retention and potentially productivity.
Easy to deploy, aligning with your existing benefit strategies and supporting your culture.