Presentation: Transforming Data Analytics into Useful Field Investigation

Speaker: Raun Bass, National Insurance Crime Bureau, Senior Data Analyst, Texas Medical Fraud Task Force

Raun A. Bass serves as the Sr. Field Information Analyst for the NICB (www.nicb.org) Houston Medical Fraud Task Force. Mr. Bass began his career with NICB in 2006 as the Field Information Analyst for the NICB Gulf Coast Task Force. The Gulf Coast Task Force was established in Baton Rouge, Louisiana after Hurricanes Katrina and Rita in late 2005. Mr. Bass assumed the duties of Medical Fraud Task Force Analyst in July 2007, after serving as a NICB Analyst assigned to the Louisiana State Police Insurance Fraud and Auto Theft Unit in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Mr. Bass recently helped create and implement a new analytical product for NICB member companies named QCNetSM.

 In 2017, Mr. Bass severed as a NICB asset embedded within the Texas State Emergency Operation Center (EOC) in Austin, Texas during Hurricane Harvey to help support the NICB digital intelligence initiative and launch of the Geospatial Intelligence Center (GIC) (www.geointel.org). Mr. Bass issued daily catastrophe alerts from information collected at the EOC, which quickly informed NICB member companies of significant activities while, encouraging claims reporting and providing members with NICB points of contact. Additionally, Mr. Bass now serves as a NICB representative on the Texas State Hazard Mitigation Team (SHMT) in an effort to help support their mission toward protecting Texas citizens and their property losses from future natural hazards like Hurricane Harvey. Mr. Bass attended Loyola University of New Orleans where he graduated with a Bachelor of Business Administration in Management and a Bachelor of Business Administration in Marketing.

Presentation Description:

The presentation will focus on the National Insurance Crime Bureau (NICB), which is a not for profit corporation that works as a liaision and support for member insurance companies and law enforcement in the fight against insurance fraud.  Our speaker, Raun Bass, is a Senior Data Analyst, responsible for reviewing millions of lines of insurance claims data, and transforming it into useful leads for investigations, support for ongoing investigations, and providing reports to law enforcement and member companies.  Raun will speak about the Data Analytics core discipline and the integral role the corporate HQ and field analysts play in contributing to the overall mission of the NICB.  

NICB's mission is to combat insurance crime on behalf of our member companies, law enforcement and the public. NICB is a not for profit corporation with about 1,100 member companies, hundreds of law enforcement agency partners, are associated with many other organizations involved in the fight against insurance crime. Through our five core disciplines, NICB leads a combined effort to address insurance crime across the country by dedicating 100% of our resources to stopping insurance fraud.

CPE Credits: 1.0 CPE Hours

Agenda:

Learning Objectives:

• Understand how Data Analytics functions in insurance fraud investigations
  
• Basic understanding of techniques regarding data mining and analysis

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Additional Information:

Delivery Method: Group-Live
Prerequisites: Working Knowledge of Fraud and Fraud Schemes
Field of Study: Specialized Knowledge and Applications [Fraud]
Who Should Attend?:  Anti-fraud professionals, Auditors, Accountants, Attorneys, Investigators, Law Enforcement, Educators, Students
Advanced Preparation: None
Program Level: Intermediate

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