Health Care Payer Fraud Protection

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Tech Talk: Fighting Healthcare Insurance Fraud

Mitigate loss through decisive fraud detection

Spiraling health care costs have a multitude of sources, including the millions of dollars lost to fraudulent, abusive and erroneous claims, dollars that payers should never be paying at all. Annual fraud costs in the US are estimated at 3% to 10% of total health care spending. And factoring in abuse and errors, the costs rise to between $200B and $600B, annually. Given the magnitude of the problem, and today’s emphasis on operational profitability, payers can’t afford to continue absorbing dollars associated with rising fraud, abuse and errors. With FICO’s comprehensive, low cost of ownership solution, fraud, abuse and errors can be quickly and effectively eliminated today.

"FICO's technology allows us to catch many more potential fraudulent, abusive and erroneous transactions with a high level of...

Detecting problematic claims before payment is a payers’ biggest arsenal, and also the most efficient. But fraud is elusive, and patterns may not emerge until after payment. FICO’s predictive analytics are powerful in fighting fraud and abuse at every stage—before, hours or days, and months or years after payment. It’s also effective at detecting billing errors and identifying systemic weaknesses and vulnerabilities like oversights in provider contracts and loopholes in benefit policies.

FICO’s industry leading fraud detection system enables payers to:

  • Make claims decisions in 30 seconds to 5 minutes
  • Save 11 to 30 cents per claim across the entire book-of-business
  • Realize millions of dollars in savings by discovering policy vulnerabilities and systemic weaknesses

With FICO’s health care payer fraud management solutions you can:

  • Strengthen the integrity of financial operations by increasing throughput and payment integrity in electronic claims processing.
  • Makes claims payment decisions, making it effortless to comply with prompt payment legislation.
  • Detect new, emerging fraud schemes at the earliest stages, creating a line of defense against unknown schemes that rules do not catch.
  • Focus resources on cases with the greatest potential positive financial impact.
  • Identify complex and subtle fraud and abuse, as well as hard to detect billing and processing errors—vulnerabilities often missed by other systems.