HEALTHCARE FRAUD DETECTION USING AI AND MACHINE LEARNING

Course Schedule

Day 1 - Monday 06 November, 2023
Registration, Kick off and Introduction
Session One

FWA, AI, Machine Learning, and Local Trends.

  • GCC v Western Health Care Systems
  • Most common fraud schemes in US and internationally
  • Examples of FWA experience in GCC
  • UAE Regulations for Medical Audit & Recovery
  • Usual Prevention & Detection and Investigation measures used in UAE and GCC region
  • How local regulations can impact off the shelf analytics
  • Ways Machine Learning will adapt your future analytics
  • Current local trends
  • How AI can provide insights to address shifting local trends
  • Group Case Study - based on a real-life experience
Coffee/Tea Break and Quiz
Session Two

Basic Machine Learning Applications in Health Care Fraud Detection – EDA, Reporting & Dashboards

  • The Evidence of Healthcare Fraud and How to Collect it / Discuss what data to analyze
  • What kind of data is available for the health care fraud detection?
  • What kind of EDA is useful in health care fraud detection?
  • What is Data Analytics?
    • Descriptive, Diagnostic, Predictive and Prescriptive
    • Importance of Descriptive & Diagnostic Analytics
    • When we need Predictive & Prescriptive Analytics
  • Fundamentals of Descriptive Analytics – Exploratory Data Analysis (EDA) / BI Reports / Visualization
Lunch Break & Quiz
Session Three

Descriptive / Diagnostic Analytics in Action to Combat Health Care Fraud

  • Visualization Dashboards
    • How to do efficient EDA?
    • How to develop effective and outcome driven dashboards?
    • What skills to build?
    • What tools / vendors to consider?
  • What KPIs to report?
  • How to convert your FWA expertise into business rules that could be run automatically every day / hour / week? – Case studies and Roundtable discussion
Coffee/Tea Break
Session Four

Visualization Dashboards / Tools

  • Building business rules in practice – real world example with realistic data
  • Simple examples of visualization dashboards / tools to help fraud investigation
  • Quick exercise in building a dashboard
  • Possible demo of some of these visualization tools / dashboards

Wrap up discussion

Day 2 - Tuesday 07 November, 2023
Review of previous day learning sessions and data analytics discussed
Session One

Deep Dive on Machine Learning in Health Care Fraud Detection - Case Studies and Round Table Discussions

  • Fundamentals of Machine Learning - Predictive & Prescriptive Analytics Major types of Machine Learning (e.g., classification, regression, association rules, clustering, text analytics, anomaly / outlier detection, etc) and relevant examples
    • Common use cases where Machine Learning is used but you may not know it
    • Common health care use cases where e AI / machine learnings used today
  • Bringing data to your environment (data ingestion) and data preparation (data wrangling / preprocessing)
  • Effective feature construction for successful fraud detection using ML / AI
  • How basic AI and machine learning could be used to fight health care FWA?
    • Business rules – quick review from previous day
    • Classification models – detecting variations of know health care fraud
  • Common challenges and risks using classification predictive models
Coffee/Tea Break and Quiz
Session Two

Predictive / Prescriptive Analytics in Action to Combat Health Care Fraud

  • How advanced unsupervised AI and machine learning could be used to fight health care FWA?
    • Feature generation for unsupervised learning
    • Clustering approaches for fraud detection
    • Anomaly / Outlier Detection – detecting novel types of health care fraud
    • Link Analysis – detecting fraud rings and nation-wide organized fraud groups
  • Doing your homework – assets, marital and financial status, bankruptcies/divorces/substance abuse data
  • Common challenges and risks using unsupervised ML models for fraud detection
  • AI and machine learning for Post-pay vs. Pre-Pay Fraud Detection
  • Reviewing actual use cases of successful investigations from AI and machine learning
  • Round table discussion on possible fraud use cases and how AI and machine learning could help
Lunch Break & Quiz
Session Three

Reviewing Use Cases of Investigations and Round Table Discussion on Possible Use Cases

  • What’s next after you build you data analytics solution? Deploying the analytics solutions
  • What it takes to successfully adopt your analytics solution?
  • Reviewing actual use cases of successful investigations from AI and machine learning
  • Round table discussion on possible fraud use cases and how AI and machine learning could help
Coffee/Tea Break
Session Four

Open Group Discussions / Analyzing How to Address and Apply ML & AI

  • Open discussion of the course
  • Each participant will come prepared with their own fraud use case and we will work together to analyze how to address it and how to apply machine learning and AI
  • Quiz and discussion of responses

Closing, Certificate Distribution, and End of Course!

Course Program
Time Topic
Day 1
07:45 to 08:00Registration & Introduction
Day 1-2
08:00 to 10:00Session One
10:00 to 10:20Coffee/Tea Break and Quiz
10:20 to 11:50Session Two
11:50 to 12:50Lunch Break & Quiz
12:50 to 14:20Session Three
14:20 to 14:40Coffee/Tea Break
14:40 to 16:00Session Four