Deploy an agentic claims-communication and service layer for Star Health: proactive cashless pre-auth updates, document chasing, and renewal conversations — rebuilding policyholder trust interaction by logged interaction.
India's largest standalone retail health insurer, distributing predominantly through an agency force of over half a million agents.
Public factSuffered a widely reported customer-data breach in 2024, making data-handling credibility a live board topic.
Public factIRDAI's cashless-everywhere push and TAT norms raise the communication load per claim — pre-auth status, deficiency notices, and settlement updates.
Public factClaim-status inquiries from anxious families at hospital counters likely dominate call volume, with agents also calling on their customers' behalf — double traffic per claim.
Reasoned inferenceRenewal persistency on retail health likely hinges on premium-hike explanation conversations that blast SMS cannot deliver.
Seller hypothesis — validateValidate with the account team before outreach: Share of call volume that is claim-status inquiry (policyholder vs agent) · Claims-platform API readiness and TPA interface constraints · Post-breach security-review requirements for new vendors
Limited internal ability or appetite to build the core platform — strong candidate for the packaged solution
Evidence: An agency-led distribution franchise whose technology estate (customer app, claims platform) is vendor-built; after the 2024 breach, the internal bar is vendor accountability and security review, not in-house AI construction.
Why they won't build the full stack: Claims-communication automation needs speech, document-flow, and evaluation infrastructure no retail health insurer builds internally; a DPDP-conscious packaged platform with clean audit trails is the sellable shape.
Loss-ratio and expense pressure in retail health has featured in recent results discussions
GTM implication: Claims-line deflection plus renewal-persistency lift attacks both sides of the combined ratio in one deployment
| Workflow | Why it matters here | Value | Complexity | Speed | Channels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Cashless pre-auth & claim-status narration Every pre-auth and claim stage pushed proactively to policyholder and agent; status calls collapse. | The hospital-admission moment is the product's truth test; silence during pre-auth is where trust and renewals are lost. Friction today: Families and their agents both call for status; pre-auth and deficiency updates travel by letter-grade processes. | WhatsAppVoiceSMS | |||
Claim-document chase & deficiency resolution Checklist-tracked, in-chat document guidance with validation; deficiency cycle time measurably cut. | Deficiency cycles stretch TATs that IRDAI norms and NPS both punish. Friction today: Deficiency letters confuse claimants; re-submissions bounce on format; each cycle adds days. | WhatsAppVoice | |||
Renewal & premium-explanation conversations Two-way renewal conversations that explain premium changes and options, with in-channel payment and agent escalation. | Retail health renewals fund the franchise; age-band and medical-inflation premium hikes need explanation, not just notification. Friction today: Renewal notices with higher premiums go unexplained; agents cover only their active books. | VoiceWhatsApp |
Voice & channel orchestration, telephony, conversational execution, session/state, routing, integration build. Capability coverage validated during implementation.
API access to these systems is the critical-path dependency.
Identity-bound sessions, policy-bounded actions, 100% audit logging, human approvals at defined points, in-tenant intelligence.
All figures are modelling estimates from the labeled inputs above — nothing here is customer-provided yet. The pilot's first job is replacing these assumptions with Star Health Insurance's measured baseline. Package price covers implementation only; recurring usage billed separately.
Why this package for Star Health Insurance: Claims communication, renewal retention, and agent-force support are two-three workflows over claims and policy-admin systems — scale scope with clear regulatory-reporting side benefits.
Packages cover implementation and integration only. Recurring costs are billed separately: Tilicho Labs platform usage (~$0.15/call-min indicative, usage only), Google Cloud consumption, telephony/carrier charges, managed operations, and support & optimization. No package includes unlimited usage.
“Retail health is bought on trust and renewed on claims experience; narrating every claim proactively is the most visible trust investment available this year.”
“Post-breach, every customer-data touchpoint must be defensible; this layer is DPDP-conscious by design — consented channels, minimal disclosure, complete logs.”
“Status calls from both policyholders and agents are double traffic per claim; proactive push removes the cause across your entire claims line.”
“Pre-auth updates, deficiency guidance, and settlement notices delivered automatically in eight languages — TAT improvement your IRDAI reporting will show.”
“Consistent, logged, policy-wording-aligned claim communication reduces ombudsman exposure and evidences the conduct IRDAI's norms expect.”
“Claims-line deflection plus renewal-persistency lift attack expense and growth in one deployment; the pilot isolates each effect for the business case.”
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India's largest retail health insurer with a 600K+ agent force and claims servicing as its daily brand test; post its 2024 data-breach episode, trust-rebuilding via visibly better, safer customer communication is strategically urgent.
Pilot proactive cashless-claim narration in two southern states for 90 days, measuring status-call suppression and pre-auth TAT with the claims team.
Entry: Cashless pre-auth & claim-status communication · Scale package · 10–14 weeks to production across priority workflows. Human fallback throughout; success thresholds agreed before build.
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