Underwriting and Rating

Travel Risk Rating Tool

Deliver an inclusive underwriting experience and expand your market with the automated assessment of travelers’ pre-existing medical conditions.

Are you effectively and inclusively underwriting travel insurance for pre-existing medical conditions?

Today’s travel health insurance customers expect a quick purchase and full coverage of their healthcare needs overseas. But coverage traditionally has excluded pre-existing medical conditions, leading to complex, adversarial, and drawn-out claim processes. How can you efficiently underwrite travel insurance for these conditions?

Automate the assessment of travelers’ pre-existing medical conditions

The Verisk Travel Risk Rating Tool helps you underwrite your travel health insurance customers inclusively, including those with pre-existing medical conditions.

Underwrite at the point of sale

You can quickly and easily implement the Travel Risk Rating Tool through an application programming interface (API) or widget plugin solution.

Increase market share

Your organization can provide coverage for customers with pre-existing medical conditions through more inclusive underwriting.

Streamline claims workflows

Easily identify and match pre-existing medical conditions to claims using consistent medical codes (ICD 9 and 10).

Integrate your own rules into the Travel Risk Rating Tool

When you use the Ratings Engine to enhance the Travel Risk Rating Tool, you can embed your own underwriting rules into the platform, providing real-time cover decisions to end users and create a robust use case for brokers and other insurance intermediaries.

Risk assessment training is vital to any insurance sales operation. Access the Travel Risk Rating Tool e-training for a convenient, interactive learning experience where and when you choose.

Features and capabilities

Automated assessment of pre-existing medical conditions

Increase conversion rates and cut overhead using our dynamic question set, which generates relative risk scores to represent the total medical exposure of pre-existing conditions—without the inefficient and lengthy underwriting process.

Consistent medical coding

Identify pre-existing conditions using consistent medical codes (ICD 9 and 10, which can help match pre-existing medical conditions to claims.

Robust analytic foundation

Gain insight from our industry-leading experts in medical risk assessment, who develop and maintain the Travel Risk Rating Tool analytics based on understanding the natural progression of medical conditions and claim costs.

Deliver inclusive underwriting experiences and expand your market with automated assessment of customers’ pre-existing medical conditions.

Learn about the Health Risk Rating Tool

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International Access code, then 800 48977489.

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