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EMPLOYERS

Control costs while showing employees you care—with expert medical second opinions

Medical second opinions made easy: a smart solution for your healthcare benefits strategy

The cost of healthcare are rising steeply and impacting the bottom line. A second opinion from world-leading healthcare centers of excellence can help your employees to achieve smarter health outcomes while you contain costs, and improve employee satisfaction.

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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

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GSO is designed specifically to support employees who are faced with life-altering medical decisions, and provides employers with smarter healthcare cost management solutions.

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It’s a turnkey service and benefit that is clinically sound, cost-effective, and ready to deploy anytime—not just during open enrollment.

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Offer your employees an affordable benefit option that is also a cost containment strategy. It’s proven that a medical second opinion can reduce treatment costs by as much as 80%.*

Wellness perks are nice. Life saving benefits are essential.

For less than the price of a cup of coffee

GSO delivers that value completely online in 7 - 10 days, offering best practice opinions from medical centers of excellence. Now that’s better than morning yoga.

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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

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Why employers choose GSO

  • Access to leading Academic Centers  of Excellence and 20,000+ physicians that set standards of care (vs. individual freelance clinicians)

  • Fast, accurate online processing of medical documents into the GSO Intelligent Dossier

  • Detailed, certified GSO Second Opinion Report delivered in just 7–10 days securely online

  • Support for any complex diagnosis, rare disease, or high-cost decisions

  • Results: up to 30% reduction in unnecessary surgeries improves medical loss ratio (MLR) and cost containment

  • Enhanced employee loyalty, retention and

  • Easy to deploy, aligned with your benefit strategies and culture

Questions?
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Let’s talk about how GSO can help your organization manage healthcare costs today.

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