As you know, we’ve created a set of recommended guidelines for gathering, handling and inspecting digital media used to make business decisions. This week we’ll tell you about the importance of the fourth guideline, Duplication.
What is Duplication?
Duplication is the use of the same photos across multiple claims, whether within an insurance carrier or across carriers and this may be a sign of fraud.
The ability to detect duplicate photos within or across carriers is an important tool to prevent potential fraud.
How Attestiv Helps Prevent The Use of Duplicate Photos
Through the process of digital fingerprinting, each photo, video or document processed by Attestiv is assigned a unique, non-identifiable, fingerprint stored in a distributed ledger (blockchain).Learn more about this process >
By virtue of the uniqueness of each fingerprint, we can detect if an item enters a system multiple times, whether that’s because a single photo was used across multiple claims or a photo was used across multiple carriers. While identifying a duplicate is more an indication of suspicion rather than a clear indicator of fraud, you need to be aware and take action on any digital media that has been flagged as a duplicate.
| Category | Risk | Remediation | Attestiv Platform Solution |
|---|---|---|---|
| Duplication | Multiple claims and re-use of old photos in new claims | Determine duplicate photos used across claims | Attestiv fingerprinting identifies duplicate photos used across claims and even across participating carriers |
Attestiv offers a suite of solutions to implement, enforce and audit best practices for digital media intake. Attestiv can be customized and implemented discretely via APIs to build a set of best practices around digital media intake that are sustainable, consistent and tamper-resistant, as part of an incremental business improvement process.
Join us next week as we discuss guideline #5 – Processing.
