Machine Learning Can Detect Fraudulent Insurance Claims

Machine Learning Can Detect Fraudulent Insurance Claims

Naveen Joshi 05/06/2023
Machine Learning Can Detect Fraudulent Insurance Claims

Insurance companies can significantly improve productivity by leveraging machine learning in fraud detection.

Machine learning has the potential to save significant costs involved in hiring as well as training staff in insurance claims investigations.

Insurance fraud has always been a major issue for insurance companies. Detecting insurance frauds can be a complex process in which many fraudulent claims go unnoticed, severely affecting the industry. In the US alone, insurance organizations lose over $40 billion each year to insurance fraud. Identifying insurance frauds can be quite difficult as each claim needs to be investigated thoroughly. As AI can help in detecting fraud in corporate accounting, insurance companies can use this technology to address fraudulent insurance claims. By leveraging machine learning in fraud detection, insurance companies can quickly and accurately analyze thousands of claims, reducing errors caused by manual reviews.

Limitations of Traditional Insurance Claims Analysis

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Insurance agents need to investigate each claim thoroughly to identify whether they are genuine. This process is incredibly complicated and time-consuming. Along with these, businesses need to hire and train a team of agents who can review thousands of claims accurately. To make the job easier, many organizations had shifted to computerized systems. However, such systems can only do basic analysis and offer low accuracy. Even after it identifies a possibly fraudulent claim, an insurance agent will need to further investigate the issue. Hence, the traditional approach of manually detecting and investigating fraudulent insurance claims is time-consuming and expensive.

Implementation of Machine Learning in Fraud Detection

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AI-powered systems use machine learning models that can precisely identify fraudulent insurance claims. Large labeled data sets can be used to develop AI-based systems, which will learn and improve over time. Such systems can implement deep anomaly detection to analyze genuine claims and form a model of what a generic claim may look like. This will be applied to large data sets to identify fraudulent insurance claims. AI-based systems can also use predictive analytics that will not only look for genuine or fraudulent claims but also investigate further to detect fraudulent behavior. 

Business leaders in the insurance industry have already implemented AI-based fraud detection. One of the largest Turkish insurance organizations, Anadolu Sigorta, uses predictive analytics software from Friss. 

With this software, the organization could detect fraudulent claims dynamically. It also witnessed 210% ROI in just a year of using the software. Before purchasing the software, Anadolu Sigorta had employed a team of 50 people to manually review all claims and the entire process required nearly two weeks to check each claim. With over 25,000 claims to be processed every month, the company realized that manual reviews are too time-consuming and decided to switch to AI-powered software. As a result, Anadolu Sigorta has managed to save $5.7 million in fraud detection and prevention costs.

Insurers can deploy machine learning in fraud detection to accurately analyze thousands of claims in a short span of time. This approach also proves to be cost-effective compared to manual review of insurance claims. After looking at these benefits, insurance businesses need to consider investing in AI to automate the process of reviewing claims. This will allow insurance agents to focus on other stimulating tasks in the workplace. Along with these, the AI-powered system will have minimal errors, making the whole review process incredibly efficient. 

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Naveen Joshi

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Naveen is the Founder and CEO of Allerin, a software solutions provider that delivers innovative and agile solutions that enable to automate, inspire and impress. He is a seasoned professional with more than 20 years of experience, with extensive experience in customizing open source products for cost optimizations of large scale IT deployment. He is currently working on Internet of Things solutions with Big Data Analytics. Naveen completed his programming qualifications in various Indian institutes.

   
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