Interview: Ben Colman, Reality Defender

ITIJ’s Chloe Fox speaks to Reality Defender co-founder and CEO Ben Colman about the rise of AI-driven medical fraud, the challenge of detecting synthetic claims, and what insurers must do to stay ahead.

Colman describes fully AI-generated progress notes submitted in claims packages, fabricated diagnostic images with lesions added or removed to support a claim narrative, and synthetic identities built out with years of invented medical history — work that once required forging a signature and can now be done in minutes with off-the-shelf tools.

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