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VitalAudit® Financial Management Blue lights with hand rippling waves Overview Services Insights Features Experts Connect VitalAudit® helps you reduce overpayments, decrease downstream liability, and improve financial integrity through more accurate mortality, beneficiary, and customer data. Combining exclusive high-coverage data, advanced matching, and flexible delivery options, VitalAudit helps financial institutions, insurance companies, healthcare organizations, and state and local government agencies reduce operational loss, maximize compliance, and improve the customer experience. Speak with an expert Nationwide Mortality Coverage 98% Reported within 10 days Reported within 10 days of mortality 90% 150M Records Processed Records processed per month 150M+ Impact Enhanced accuracy Get accurate identification of your deceased insureds using our matching algorithms—even with data variations such as nicknames or misspellings Accurate Icon Duotone Brand Icons_ White on Black_August 2024-733 Faster resolution Validate your death claims within seconds—even without a death certificate. Our secure API is updated daily for maximum accuracy and reliability. icon-two arrows pointing up Improved Efficiency Save time and reduce your resource constraints with automated searches that confirm thousands of claims in minutes. Efficient Duotone Brand Icons_ White on Black_August 2024-91 Fast-track death validation Key Features Mortality and beneficiary intelligence Mortality intelligence Enrichment and validation Get Started Learn how VitalAudit can help you reduce overpayments, decrease liability, and improve financial integrity with faster mortality intelligence and stronger data validation. Contact us to explore options Out of focus people shaking hands VitalAudit services Across competitors What is VA VitalAudit is a mortality verification, beneficiary data, and customer data intelligence service. It helps organizations reduce overpayments, decrease downstream liability, and improve financial integrity. It combines high-coverage mortality data, advanced matching, and flexible delivery options to help reduce operational loss, strengthen compliance, and improve the customer experience. What is VitalAudit? VA Improper payments Yes. VitalAudit mortality and identity verification can be embedded into payment authorization workflows to help verify payee eligibility before funds are released. This strengthens payment integrity earlier in the process instead of relying only on downstream audits and remediation. Does VitalAudit support payment integrity before releasing payments? What is DA A death audit helps organizations identify and confirm deceased individuals within customer, beneficiary, insured, member, or payee populations. VitalAudit supports death audit and deceased-status verification through high-coverage mortality intelligence, advanced matching, transparent sourcing, and match confidence scoring. These capabilities help teams act on records that may include nicknames, misspellings, incomplete information, or other data inconsistencies. What is a death audit, and how does VitalAudit support it? VA accuracy VitalAudit provides 98% nationwide mortality coverage, reports 90% of mortalities within 10 days, and processes more than 150 million records per month. Advanced matching, transparent sourcing, and match confidence scoring capabilities reduce manual review and make more confident mortality verification and payment integrity decisions. How accurate is VitalAudit mortality verification data? How fast VA validate deaths VitalAudit includes API-enabled death validation through Fast-Track capabilities that validate reported deaths within seconds , even without a death certificate. Its secure API is updated daily to support faster, more accurate validation for claims, servicing, and other high-volume review workflows. How fast does VitalAudit validate deaths? VA improve beneficiary VitalAudit improves beneficiary data and customer records through data enrichment, mortality verification, address remediation, identity disambiguation, and beneficiary or next-of-kin linkage. These capabilities can support claims processing, servicing, outreach, customer data validation, and unclaimed property workflows. What makes VitalAudit different from legacy mortality providers? VA deployment Yes. VitalAudit offers deployment in ways that fit your data, governance, security, and operating model. Flexible delivery options include on-premises, cloud, or hybrid deployment. This helps align mortality verification and customer data validation with your technology environment and personally identifiable information (PII) control requirements. Can you deploy VitalAudit in different technology environments? What makes VA different VitalAudit has broader mortality data coverage, stronger source quality, faster validation, flexible deployment, and advisory-led support. VitalAudit has 98% mortality coverage (15-25% higher than competitors), validation in seconds through the Fast-Track API, vetted data partnerships, on-premises, cloud, or hybrid deployment options, and a service model tailored to client workflows. Free VA pilot You can request a free pilot by completing this form or by selecting Schedule a demo on the VitalAudit webpage. Our specialists will show how VitalAudit supports mortality verification, death audit workflows, beneficiary data enrichment, improper payment prevention, and payment integrity for your organization. Our pilots are customizable and help you quantify ROI to show the immediate value of integrating VitalAudit into your workstreams. How do I get a free VitalAudit pilot? FAQs
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Financial Management

VitalAudit®

VitalAudit: Decedent Identification Services
OverviewServicesInsightsFeaturesExpertsConnect

VitalAudit® helps you reduce overpayments, decrease downstream liability, and improve financial integrity through more accurate mortality, beneficiary, and customer data.

Combining exclusive high-coverage data, advanced matching, and flexible delivery options, VitalAudit helps financial institutions, insurance companies, healthcare organizations, and state and local government agencies reduce operational loss, maximize compliance, and improve the customer experience.

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Impact

98%Nationwide mortality coverage

90%Reported within 10 days of mortality

150M+Records processed per month

VitalAudit services

Measurable financial impact

Turn better mortality and beneficiary data into faster action on improper payments, unresolved liability, and escheatment exposure to improve financial integrity.

Broader coverage

Access mortality and identity intelligence backed by 98% coverage, transparent sourcing, and match confidence scoring to reduce manual effort and prevent avoidable overpayments.

Faster validation at scale

Validate reported deaths quickly through automated searches and API-driven workflows that reduce manual effort, accelerate review, and stop avoidable overpayments sooner.

Flexible delivery

Deploy VitalAudit in ways that fit your data, governance, and operational model. Strengthen financial controls, improve workflow adoption, and act faster on costly data issues.

Beneficiary resolution

Surface the beneficiary and related-party insights needed to reduce delays, improve outreach, decrease unsolved liability, and help move funds, claims, or records to the correct next step.

Customized decedent data

Capitalize on tailored mortality datasets and outputs to support remediation, internal analysis, and workflow-specific use cases with more precise intelligence that boosts financial decision-making.

Fast-Track validation API

Validate reported deaths in seconds with API-enabled access that helps you move from manual review to faster, more scalable decision-making for immediate financial impact.

Mortality verification

Gain greater confidence in deceased-status verification with advanced matching that helps improve accuracy, reduce ambiguity, prevent improper payments, and support faster action across critical workflows.

Address remediation

Locate customers and beneficiaries with outdated or incomplete address data to improve contact accuracy, strengthen outreach, and reduce unresolved records that can contribute to liability and escheatment exposure.

Data enrichment

Enhance customer and beneficiary records with missing or incomplete data elements that support stronger identity validation, better mortality matching, and cleaner financial integrity decisions.

Escheatment support

Support unclaimed property workflows with services that help manage reporting, remittance, and compliance obligations while reducing administrative burden and operational risk.

Location and outreach

Conduct compliant outreach to customers, beneficiaries, and related parties through calls and mailings that help improve response rates, reduce delays, and decrease unresolved liability.

Learn how VitalAudit can help you reduce overpayments, decrease liability, and improve financial integrity with faster mortality intelligence and stronger data validation.  

 

Contact us to explore options 

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Proven impact

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Customized natural language processing model for a large financial institution

Trusted insights

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The hidden costs of outdated mortality data

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FAQs

VitalAudit is a mortality verification, beneficiary data, and customer data intelligence service. It helps organizations reduce overpayments, decrease downstream liability, and improve financial integrity. It combines high-coverage mortality data, advanced matching, and flexible delivery options to help reduce operational loss, strengthen compliance, and improve the customer experience.

Yes. VitalAudit mortality and identity verification can be embedded into payment authorization workflows to help verify payee eligibility before funds are released. This strengthens payment integrity earlier in the process instead of relying only on downstream audits and remediation.

A death audit helps organizations identify and confirm deceased individuals within customer, beneficiary, insured, member, or payee populations. VitalAudit supports death audit and deceased-status verification through high-coverage mortality intelligence, advanced matching, transparent sourcing, and match confidence scoring. These capabilities help teams act on records that may include nicknames, misspellings, incomplete information, or other data inconsistencies.

VitalAudit provides 98% nationwide mortality coverage, reports 90% of mortalities within 10 days, and processes more than 150 million records per month. Advanced matching, transparent sourcing, and match confidence scoring capabilities reduce manual review and make more confident mortality verification and payment integrity decisions.

VitalAudit includes API-enabled death validation through Fast-Track capabilities that validate reported deaths within seconds, even without a death certificate. Its secure API is updated daily to support faster, more accurate validation for claims, servicing, and other high-volume review workflows.

VitalAudit improves beneficiary data and customer records through data enrichment, mortality verification, address remediation, identity disambiguation, and beneficiary or next-of-kin linkage. These capabilities can support claims processing, servicing, outreach, customer data validation, and unclaimed property workflows.

Yes. VitalAudit offers deployment in ways that fit your data, governance, security, and operating model. Flexible delivery options include on-premises, cloud, or hybrid deployment. This helps align mortality verification and customer data validation with your technology environment and personally identifiable information (PII) control requirements.

VitalAudit has broader mortality data coverage, stronger source quality, faster validation, flexible deployment, and advisory-led support. VitalAudit has 98% mortality coverage (15-25% higher than competitors), validation in seconds through the Fast-Track API, vetted data partnerships, on-premises, cloud, or hybrid deployment options, and a service model tailored to client workflows.

You can request a free pilot by completing this form or by selecting Schedule a demo on the VitalAudit webpage. Our specialists will show how VitalAudit supports mortality verification, death audit workflows, beneficiary data enrichment, improper payment prevention, and payment integrity for your organization. Our pilots are customizable and help you quantify ROI to show the immediate value of integrating VitalAudit into your workstreams.

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Jim
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Director, Financial Services

Jim has 20+ years of experience managing and delivering regulatory and data solutions that help financial institutions mitigate risk, protect reputation, and optimize customer experience.

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Fast-track death validation

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Enhanced accuracy

Get accurate identification of your deceased insureds using our matching algorithms—even with data variations such as nicknames or misspellings
icon-two arrows pointing up

Faster resolution

Validate your death claims within seconds—even without a death certificate. Our secure API is updated daily for maximum accuracy and reliability.
Efficient Duotone Brand Icons_ White on Black_August 2024-91

Improved efficiency

Save time and reduce your resource constraints with automated searches that confirm thousands of claims in minutes.