SAS® Payment Integrity for Social Benefits solution is a SAS Viya offering in the Risk, Fraud & Compliance Product Portfolio. The solution is meant for medium to large regional or national government organizations that provide tangible benefits to individuals/citizens that need to evaluate available costs and to reduce losses due to Fraud, Waste, and Abuse.

SAS Payment Integrity for Social Benefits solution is a unified platform for program integrity that equips staff with powerful tools for analyzing, detecting, and preventing payment integrity issues across various public assistance programs. SAS Payment Integrity for Social Benefits runs on SAS Viya (on Azure), enabling governments to promote payment integrity and fight fraud and abuse with the fastest, most productive AI and analytics available. Agencies can see data in real time or batch, not just sample, using multiple techniques like:

• Anomaly detection for outliers

• Machine learning and AI

• Predictive modeling

• External data set matching

• Business rules

• Network link analysis and more

All these methods combined can help uncover more suspicious activity faster with greater accuracy and ensure missed benefit opportunities in legitimate claims.

Visit the SAS Payment Integrity for Social Benefits features page for more information.

SAS offers an end-to-end enterprise solution designed to fit the needs of government programs, both big and small.

Together, SAS and Microsoft work to achieve the benefits agency goal of paying the right benefit, whilst driving down costs.