---
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
---

[Employee Benefits Blog | Bjork Group ](https://www.bjorkgroup.com/blog)

# [How to Bend the Cost Curve (Vol.1)](https://www.bjorkgroup.com/blog/bend_the_cost_curve_vol1)

 Written by [Bjork Group](https://www.bjorkgroup.com/blog/author/bjork-group) | Feb 27, 2017 5:15:02 PM

### 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.

 

[View full post](https://www.bjorkgroup.com/blog/bend_the_cost_curve_vol1)

```json
{
  "@context" : "http://schema.org",
  "@type" : "BlogPosting",
  "author" : {
    "@type" : "Person",
    "name" : "Bjork Group"
  },
  "dateModified" : "2017-02-27T17:20:08.293Z",
  "datePublished" : "2017-02-27T17:15:02Z",
  "headline" : "How to Bend the Cost Curve (Vol.1)",
  "image" : {
    "@type" : "ImageObject",
    "height" : 45,
    "url" : "https://cdn2.hubspot.net/hubfs/453572/GR_logo_Hor_246x45px.png",
    "width" : 246
  },
  "mainEntityOfPage" : "https://www.bjorkgroup.com/blog/bend_the_cost_curve_vol1",
  "publisher" : {
    "@type" : "Organization",
    "logo" : {
      "@type" : "ImageObject",
      "height" : 60,
      "url" : "/hs/hsstatic/content_shared_assets/static-1.4092/img/default-amp-logo.png",
      "width" : 60
    },
    "name" : "Blog"
  }
}
```