Custom Workers’ Compensation Insurance Software
ScienceSoft applies 13 years of experience in custom insurance software development to build efficient, secure digital solutions that provide robust automation of workers’ compensation insurance workflows.
Workers’ Compensation Insurance Software: The Essence
Workers’ compensation insurance software is meant to automate underwriting, quoting, policy servicing, claim processing, and reporting workflows for insurers, intermediaries, and service providers focused on work-related injuries, occupational diseases, and workplace-incurred fatalities.
Custom solutions can provide comprehensive data analytics powered by artificial intelligence (AI) to accurately evaluate risks, capture fraudulent claims, and support loss prevention. They can introduce advanced security of insurance data and simplify compliant claim disclosure.
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Best Features for Custom Workers’ Compensation Insurance Software
In ScienceSoft’s business insurance software projects, we create flexible custom solutions that can be quickly adapted to changing business requirements and compliance regulations. Below, our consultants present a list of features for a comprehensive workers’ compensation insurance system.
Application processing
Robotic process automation and machine learning can be used to automatically extract and validate data on employers’ financial performance, workforce, specifics of employee workflows, past claims history, etc. from digital and paper insurance applications.
Risk assessment
Insurers can create and manage custom actuarial models for loss prediction and risk evaluation. The solution enables criteria-based scoring of employer risks. It can also provide AI-powered risk assessment based on the employer’s web footprint and social media sentiment.
Insurance pricing
The software calculates personalized insurance premiums based on the requested coverage terms and an employer’s risk score. It can provide AI-powered prescriptions on optimal premiums based on the analysis of demand, price elasticity, potential risks, and competitors’ prices.
Custom solutions enable automated policy generation, updating, renewal, and termination. They provide centralized and scalable policy storage. Insurers can create custom templates for region-specific policies and sign the policies using a digital signature.
The software automatically generates one-time and recurring invoices and enables real-time payment processing via payment gateways. Custom solutions can support all necessary payment currencies (including crypto) and payment methods: bank transfer, card, check, etc.
Claim intake and triaging
RPA and AI can be used to process workers’ compensation claims and claim-supporting documents (incident reports, photos of involved assets, medical bills, etc.) in near real time. The software automatically prioritizes claims for processing based on the claim date, urgency, damage severity, and more.
Claim adjudication
The software uses custom rules to detect fraudulent claims and calculate due compensation amounts for valid claims. It can also be powered with AI for automated claim validation against the insurance coverage terms and relevant data from third parties (e.g., employers, healthcare providers, telematics providers).
Compensation payment
Insurers and administrators can create custom payment plans for each claim case. The software enforces payments in the form of partial wage replacement, reimbursement of medical expenses, payments to workers’ dependents (for workplace-incurred fatality cases), etc., according to the pre-set schedule.
Regulatory reporting
Claims (FROI/SROI), required policy statistics, and financial performance details are automatically reported in line with the regional standards and guidelines, e.g., by OSHA, NAIC, NCCI, WCIS, OWCP, IFRS 17 for the US. The software can also trigger scheduled or ad hoc report submission to regulators via EDI.
The software calculates all required insurance metrics (sales, underwriting, claim settlement, etc.) and can deliver them in real time. AI-supported solutions may also forecast the demand, revenue, and expenses — or prescribe optimal employee task plans and claim reserves.
Intelligent assistants
Insurance teams can leverage AI-powered virtual assistants to automatically handle basic customer and partner communication tasks, such as requests for missed information, notifications on the claim processing status, payment reminders, etc.
Customer and partner features
Custom workers’ compensation insurance software can also have dedicated functionality for employers, workers, and healthcare providers. By offering self-service options for their clients and partners, insurers can benefit from faster claim resolution and improved staff productivity.
Worker features
Workers can file claims based on customizable templates, upload evidence for loss events (work-related injury, occupational disease, etc.), and track claim resolution progress in real time. Custom software can introduce criteria-based selection of healthcare providers from the pre-approved list.
Employer features
Employers can automatically generate insurance applications and claims. They can also create and manage the list of loss-handling partners (healthcare providers). Custom software can provide a full history of received premium invoices and cover automated premium payment capabilities.
Healthcare provider features
Healthcare providers can upload data on claim reasoning (medical diagnostics results, treatment prescriptions, etc.) and securely share it with health payers in real time.
Settling workers’ compensation insurance claims assumes that all parties – insurers, employers, employees, medical practitioners, and regulators – can control process accuracy and legitimacy. This requires multi-party data sharing, which raises security concerns and leaves room for mistrust due to potentially incomplete information. Building a blockchain platform for workers’ compensation insurance may help ensure transparency across the claim processing flows and establish advanced security of exchanged data.