What is "death fraud"?  It is the intentional and illegal use of a deceased person's identification (Social Security Number) for falsifying insurance claims, tax refunds, and more, for direct monetary benefit of the perpetrator.

DeathFraud.com was established to combat fraud, waste, and abuse occurring in several different industrires.  Our company uses the Social Security Administration's Death Master File to identify any payment made by or to deceased persons. 

HEALTH CARE:  In the health care field, we use the Death Master File to identify payments made by deceased physicians and to deceased patients.  We analyze patient claims data to assess the total damage made by billing claims by deceased providers and/or to deceased patients by cross-walking claims file with the death file.

ACCOUNTING:  In the Accounts Payable field, we use the death file to identify payments to employees or vendors who are deceased.  We also use the Social Security file to determine if vendor and employee social security numbers are valid or invalid.

TAX REFUNDS:  In the Tax Administration arena, we use the death file to identify refunds made to deceased taxpayers.  This has become a very common method of tax refund fraud (see "Case Stories").

INSURANCE FRAUD:   Some fraudsters will go so far as to fake their own or their spouse's  death to obtain a life insurance payout.  We can cross-walk the insurance claims files with the Master Death File to determine if the person truly did die.