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Document fraud detection for insurance claims

Doctored invoices, staged-loss documentation, and identity misuse at claim time. Detectory renders forensic verdicts on claims documents before payouts, and maps the provider and repair-shop rings behind organized claim fraud.

The problem

Claims fraud costs US insurers over $300B a year

The Coalition Against Insurance Fraud estimates fraud drains $308B annually, and document manipulation is the workhorse: inflated repair invoices, altered medical bills, backdated policy documents, and staged-loss photo sets. SIU teams review a fraction of flagged claims by hand while organized provider and repair-shop rings industrialize the paperwork.

$308B

annual US insurance fraud cost

Coalition Against Insurance Fraud

10-20%

of claims contain some element of fraud

industry estimates

<20%

of suspected fraud referred for investigation

SIU benchmarks

Example verdicts

The documents your team sees, scored

Representative documents from this workflow with the forensic verdict Detectory renders and the finding behind it. Suspect documents are never auto-denied; they route to your reviewers with the evidence itemized.

Repair estimate (auto claim)

Body-shop invoice supporting a collision claim

Likely fraudulent

Finding: Line items duplicated from a prior claim with inflated labor hours; same shop letterhead appears in 27 claims across 4 carriers

Medical bill (injury claim)

Provider superbill for soft-tissue treatment

Human review

Finding: CPT code pattern matches a known upcoding profile and the provider NPI is newly registered; routed to SIU

Proof of loss (property claim)

Inventory and receipts for a theft claim

Likely fraudulent

Finding: Receipt metadata predates the purchase dates claimed; two receipts generated by the same online template service

Policy document (coverage dispute)

Policyholder-submitted declarations page

Genuine

Finding: Document matches issued policy record byte-for-byte; cleared instantly

What Detectory does here

Purpose-built detection for this workflow

Pre-payout document verdicts

Invoices, estimates, bills, and loss documentation scored before the claim pays, moving fraud detection out of pay-and-chase.

Provider & shop ring analytics

Template reuse, billing-pattern, and identity signals across claims expose organized provider, clinic, and repair-shop rings.

Photo & receipt forensics

Metadata, reverse-template, and manipulation analysis on submitted photos and receipts catches staged and recycled loss evidence.

SIU referral packets

Consolidated cases with itemized exhibits and timestamps, formatted for SIU investigation, NICB referral, and litigation.

Case walkthrough

One body shop, four carriers, 27 claims

A repair shop inflates estimates using recycled line items and doctored photos, spreading claims across carriers to stay under each one’s radar. Detectory recognizes the shared letterhead artifacts, duplicated damage photos with altered metadata, and the billing cadence, and clusters all 27 claims into a single ring case.

Outcome: The SIU receives one consolidated referral with cross-claim exhibits, and every new claim referencing the shop is scored on arrival.

Send a redacted set of paid claims through Detectory and audit what slipped past.

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