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INSURERS

Reduce medical costs, improve diagnostic accuracy, increase member trust

Medical second opinions made easy: Trusted by employers, health systems & insurers worldwide

With the cost of healthcare steadily rising, medical insurers need to prioritize diagnostic accuracy, reduce or avoid unnecessary treatments and elevate member trust.

Global Second Opinion (GSO) is your strategic partner to ensure medical decisions align with best practices.

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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 ensures optimal health outcomes that support Population Health Management (PHM) objectives and it improves cost containment resulting from complicated or unnecessary health claims.

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It’s a turnkey service and benefit that is clinically sound, cost-effective, and ready to deploy anytime.

Proven results

Healthier members, improved plan performance

Medical second opinions help contain costs - both direct and indirect - by reducing misdiagnosis, avoiding unnecessary or excessively expensive tests or surgeries, and promoting the use of appropriate treatment plans.

Lower claims, and fewer re-admissions help improve return-to-work rates which help your clients’ bottom line.

With a medical second opinion from GSO:

of diagnoses are revised

88%

fewer surgeries

30%

days turnaround time

7-10

digital and globally accessible
(translation included if needed)

100%

secure, private and regulatory compliant
(HIPAA, GDPR)

Fully

Why partner with GSO?

Multi-layer benefit

  • Access to centers of excellence in healthcare

  • Fully automated, secure, HIPAA- and GDPR-compliant

  • High value for plan members when critical decisions are needed

  • Bottom-line impact

Easy deployment

  • Easy integration into your, or your clients’ existing benefits programs and portals

  • Physician case managers help throughout the process

  • Flexible, transparent pricing

  • Year-round implementation

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Why insurers choose GSO

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

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

  • 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.

Questions?
We have answers.

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