Case study · AXA Global Healthcare

The best claim is no claim at all.

Customers were covered anywhere in the world. But claiming on that cover meant forms, receipts and waiting to be paid back. So we helped design all three away.

A patient pays contactlessly at an AXA Global Healthcare clinic reception
Sector International private health insurance
Our role Customer research, ideation & proposition design
Launched Early 2024 · award-winning

We didn't make the claim form easier to fill in. We made it disappear.

The problem

AXA Global Healthcare gives internationally mobile customers cover that follows them across borders. But the moment they needed to use it, the process worked against them — pay the clinic upfront, keep every receipt, complete a claim form, then wait to be reimbursed.

3 steps stood between customers and cover they had already paid for: the form, the receipt, and the wait to be reimbursed.

Across different countries, currencies and clinics, that administrative burden was enough to put people off claiming at all — quietly eroding the value of the very product they had bought.

The cover was never the problem. Claiming on it was.

What we did

Ninety worked with AXA Global Healthcare to rethink the claim from the customer's point of view — then design it out of the journey entirely.

  • 01Listened first. We grounded the work in what customers genuinely found painful about claiming abroad, not what the existing process assumed they would tolerate.
  • 02Reframed the claim. Together we envisioned a "no-claim claims" model: a virtual payment card, held in the customer's digital wallet, that settles the bill directly.
  • 03Designed it to disappear. The card is simply swiped at the clinic. No forms, no receipts, no reimbursement wait — the claim resolves into the payment itself.

The outcome

AXA Global Healthcare launched the no-claim proposition in early 2024.

0 claim forms, receipts or reimbursement waits — for the customer, the admin of a claim simply disappears.

It has measurably lifted customer satisfaction, earned industry awards and media coverage, and set a new benchmark for what making a health claim abroad should feel like: nothing at all.

In their words

By listening to our customers and innovating with Ninety to resolve their challenges, we've been able to retain, strengthen and build customer relationships.

AXA

Managing Director, AXA Global Healthcare

The takeaway

Remove the friction, not the cover.

The best experience in insurance is often the one a customer never notices. AXA Global Healthcare didn't add features to the claim — they designed the claim away, and made the product more valuable by asking less of the people using it.

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