Health insurance fraud detection by using an attributed heterogeneous information network with a hierarchical attention mechanism

With the rapid growth of healthcare services, health insurance fraud detection has become an important measure to ensure efficient use of public funds. Traditional fraud detection methods have tended to focus on the attributes of a single visit and have ignored the behavioural relationships of multi...

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Veröffentlicht in:BMC medical informatics and decision making 2023-04, Vol.23 (1), p.62-62, Article 62
Hauptverfasser: Lu, Jiangtao, Lin, Kaibiao, Chen, Ruicong, Lin, Min, Chen, Xin, Lu, Ping
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Zusammenfassung:With the rapid growth of healthcare services, health insurance fraud detection has become an important measure to ensure efficient use of public funds. Traditional fraud detection methods have tended to focus on the attributes of a single visit and have ignored the behavioural relationships of multiple visits by patients. We propose a health insurance fraud detection model based on a multilevel attention mechanism that we call MHAMFD. Specifically, we use an attributed heterogeneous information network (AHIN) to model different types of objects and their rich attributes and interactions in a healthcare scenario. MHAMFD selects appropriate neighbour nodes based on the behavioural relationships at different levels of a patient's visit. We also designed a hierarchical attention mechanism to aggregate complex semantic information from the interweaving of different levels of behavioural relationships of patients. This increases the feature representation of objects and makes the model interpretable by identifying the main factors of fraud. Experimental results using real datasets showed that MHAMFD detected health insurance fraud with better accuracy than existing methods. Experiment suggests that the behavioral relationships between patients' multiple visits can also be of great help to detect health care fraud. Subsequent research fraud detection methods can also take into account the different behavioral relationships between patients.
ISSN:1472-6947
1472-6947
DOI:10.1186/s12911-023-02152-0