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Methods/ Best Practices Fraud prevention and detection Group 2. Insurance Institute of India, Mumbai 24 th February 2012. Interplay between Policy and Care. More defined Terms and Conditions of Insurance Policy: ailment exclusions/ wait period, procedure caps, waiting period, deductibles
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Methods/ Best PracticesFraud prevention and detectionGroup 2 Insurance Institute of India, Mumbai 24th February 2012
Interplay between Policy and Care • More defined Terms and Conditions of Insurance Policy: ailment exclusions/ wait period, procedure caps, waiting period, deductibles • Rising sensitivities to: • care delivered and rate plans followed by providers • Variations between planned care and delivered care • Episodic transaction during loss incidence i.e. hospitlisation
Factors in fraud managementLeaks, Misrepresentation, Inflation, Fabricated cases • Detectability: • Wrong information, pattern, trend, adverse event • Severity: Loss amount • Frequency: number of cases • Remedial action • Impact of remedial action
Detectibility • Welcome call before issuing policy. • Risk Scoring against weighted criteria (Tolerence levels and concurrent audit) • Organised data (template) to prompt detection of gaps/ deviation from routine • Std Treatment Guidelines (Routine elements of diagnosis, care and prognosis): • Train claims assessors to detect non routine elements and confirm rationale with provider • Medical Audits, Infrastructure Audit of Providers • Triggers: Age, Gender, ICD group, lockin period, Locn (provider; Locn (member); Cashless/MR; Claimed amt; • Investigators: • Training Modules to build competency • Establish and communicate Code of Conduct for investigation function • Data Sharing: • ICD 10 coding • Common shared folder between common interest groups • Trends and Patterns: Agent, Cashless, MR
Severity Tele Follow Ups for suspicious cases on events during care process. • Case Management for high value claim or catastrophic treatment (eg Multiple injuries) • Second opinion by qualified doctor in similar speciality preferably in same region • Checklist to insured member to track hospitalisation events for planned care (eg Diagnostic tests, Decision of admission, informed consent, preauth request, approval terms and conditions, assessment, care, prognosis, discharge)
Frequency • Shared Data and Joint assessment of experiences against trends and patterns • Red alerting suspicious providers vis-à-vis ICD groups and black listing fraudulant providers • Shared knowledge on status of suspicious hospitals across TPAs, Ins Companies • Learnings (Improving) and Unlearnings (simplifying)
Corrective Actions • Remedial action (control): • isolate cause/ environment of cause: Deny cashless while hospitalisation; suspend cashless facility to provider pending investigations. • reduce loss: mediation, negotiation, arbitration (sensitivities with legal action) • Recover loss: To establish mechanism and process of recovery post- retrospection • Impact of remedial action: • Amount recovered • Leak stopped (potential loss avoided) • Sustenance of control measures (detection, compliance, deterministic)
Preventive MeasuresSustenance of effective actions • Committee for knowledge creation from current experiences, patterns and trends. • Committee to approve best practices and propagation • CME for Medical staff in Insurance segment • Newsletters for member groups • Newsletters for provider groups • Thoughts! • Automation of consistent processes • Algorithm (statistical) based decision prompt
Possible methods • Assess care Vis-à-vis hospital infrastructure and specialties included (A scale to measure hospital compliance available) especially for Non NW Hospital with high volume of cases and/ or high claim value. • Insurance specific ‘Informed consent’ to capture member behaviour Vs provider behavior • Credentialing and performance tracking of investigators • Regional committees to resolve disputes between parties and close the open cases. • Change in accreditation status with NABH, Licencing authority may benefit by avoiding potential fraud • Published fraud hospital list has legal implications and not suggested • Reporting to Police, MCI, Statutory Licencing authority, IMA has not yielded positive responses