--- title: How to Bend the Cost Curve (Vol.1) description: Why get a second opinion? How to Bend the Cost Curve and provide better treatment with better health care outcomes for employees image: https://www.bjorkgroup.com/hubfs/GR_logo_Hor_246x45px.png --- ![img description](https://www.bjorkgroup.com/hubfs/images/banner-img03.jpg) # Blog ### Better Care. Better Outcomes. Bending The Cost Curve.   #### Consider the following: With the cost of job based health care now out pacing job and wage growth many employers have reached a breaking point in employee cost sharing. With employers now facing the difficult decision of how to handle the cost of future health care inflation, a growing number of providers are taking non-traditional approaches to proactively bend the cost curve and provide better care and better outcomes. #### Why Grand Rounds? In the first installment of Bending the Cost Curve we're highlighting Grand Rounds, part of our [Lead2Health](https://www.bjorkgroup.com/blog/lead_2_health) program. Grand Rounds proactively manages high cost medical conditions by guiding members to measurably better care, with measurably better outcomes.  How do they do this?     ### Where is the ROI? In a survey conducted by Grand Rounds on billions of Medicare claims, one of the conclusions was the top 10% of Doctors actually cost **30% LESS** than average (Grand Rounds: A New Way to Bend the Cost Curve 2015). By guiding members to the best care with the best providers the [Grand Rounds ROI Calculator](https://www.grandrounds.com/employer/return-investment/) estimates a typical 500 life company could **save $214,000 annually. **If you'd like to learn more about how Grand Rounds as part of our Lead2Health program can work for your employees, click below. [![Learn More](https://no-cache.hubspot.com/cta/default/453572/8731b4a4-4e80-43d8-89c0-c54e435626b6.png)](https://cta-redirect.hubspot.com/cta/redirect/453572/8731b4a4-4e80-43d8-89c0-c54e435626b6)   ![Image](https://www.bjorkgroup.com/hubfs/images/dummy-img.jpg) Share THIS POST - [mailto:?body=Check%20out%20this%20blog%20post:%20https://www.bjorkgroup.com/blog/bend_the_cost_curve_vol1](mailto:?body=Check%20out%20this%20blog%20post:%20https://www.bjorkgroup.com/blog/bend_the_cost_curve_vol1) - - -