• Job Description

  Req#: R019755
  Healthfirst’s 2025 Summer Trailblazer Internship is a 10-week paid program beginning on June 2, 2025. This is an immersive and interactive learning experience, that lays a foundation for continued leadership development. Interns do impactful work, collaborating with other interns, employees, and business leaders to solve current business problems and deliver solutions.
  
  Who We Are:
  For nearly 30 years, Healthfirst has been serving New Yorkers. We helped pioneer the value-based healthcare model—where hospitals and physicians are paid based on patient outcomes—because our company was founded on the belief that insurers need to be true partners in the health system.
  
  Position Summary:
  In today's competitive landscape, organizations are increasingly focused on enhancing operational efficiency and member satisfaction. In the Delegated Vendor Management (DVM) space, incorporating an intern would be critical for us in our shared service functions along with leveraging fresh perspectives, innovative ideas, and dedicated support to improve overall member experiences.
  
  This role will support market intelligence by building new analytic tools for strategic planning to support proper governance, including all lines of business and market segments – both existing and new. This role also will support the aggregation of our diverse and everchanging Medicare Stars portfolio of initiatives to support our supplemental benefits for members/providers.

  Duties & Responsibilities:

  • Management of our Medicare Stars & CAHPs portfolio for Vision, DME, Transportation, and OTC

  • Dashboard build out and additional analytics to assist with our UM results, oversight, and utilization for the 850k authorization requests overseen by our delegated vendors

  • Support UM Modernization efforts - aggregate updates, track the activities associated with the CPT removals, ensure vendors have the proper gold carding criteria and operationalize it, help build out the innovation pipeline, track Artificial Intelligence use cases and proposed value .

  • Design, create, modify , support and maintain regular reports, including but not limited to a weekly news summary

  • Prepare ad-hoc reports as required by senior management

  • Assist with vendor reporting/data management & analysis, including 2025 go-live of additional vendor KVI auditing.

  • Additional responsibilities as required

  Minimum Qualifications:

  • Undergraduate students must be a junior or senior at an accredited institution or have graduated within 12 months of the program. Graduate students must be enrolled at an accredited institution or have graduated within 12 months of the program.
  • Will not require sponsorship for employment
  • Eligible to work in the U.S.
  • Must have a minimum of a 3.0 GPA from an accredited school

  Preferred Qualifications:

  • Senior candidate: on track to graduate with a Bachelor’s degree (Spring 2025), preferably in analytics, public health, business, economics, or another related field; Master’s degree candidate: preferably in public health, business, or health administration

  • Experience developing market research and competitive analysis

  • Knowledge of data visualization products, such as Tableau/ PowerBI

  • Demonstrated ability to problem - solve and synthesize information

  • Strong written and verbal communication skills, as well as the ability to effectively present ideas and build consensus with stakeholders

  • Excellent analytical skills, and both written and oral communication skills required

  • Ability to translate details and complex dynamics into consumable and actionable intelligence for both senior executives and field staff

  WE ARE AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER. Applicants and employees are considered for positions and are evaluated without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, age, genetic information, military or veteran status, marital status, mental or physical disability or any other protected Federal, State/Province or Local status unrelated to the performance of the work involved.

  If you have a disability under the Americans with Disability Act or a similar law and want a reasonable accommodation to assist with your job search or application for employment, please contact us by sending an email to careers@Healthfirst.org or calling 212-519-1798 . In your email please include a description of the accommodation you are requesting and a description of the position for which you are applying. Only reasonable accommodation requests related to applying for a position within Healthfirst Management Services will be reviewed at the e-mail address and phone number supplied. Thank you for considering a career with Healthfirst Management Services.

  EEO Law Poster and Supplement

  All hiring and recruitment at Healthfirst is transacted with a valid “@healthfirst.org” email address only or from a recruitment firm representing our Company. Any recruitment firm representing Healthfirst will readily provide you with the name and contact information of the recruiting professional representing the opportunity you are inquiring about. If you receive a communication from a sender whose domain is not @healthfirst.org, or not one of our recruitment partners, please be aware that those communications are not coming from or authorized by Healthfirst. Healthfirst will never ask you for money during the recruitment or onboarding process.

  Hiring Range*:

  • Greater New York City Area (NY, NJ, CT residents): $39,208 - $52,000

  • All Other Locations (within approved locations): $34,091 - $49,920

  As a candidate for this position, your salary and related elements of compensation will be contingent upon your work experience, education, licenses and certifications, and any other factors Healthfirst deems pertinent to the hiring decision.

  In addition to your salary, Healthfirst offers employees a full range of benefits such as, medical, dental and vision coverage, incentive and recognition programs, life insurance, and 401k contributions (all benefits are subject to eligibility requirements). Healthfirst believes in providing a competitive compensation and benefits package wherever its employees work and live.

  *The hiring range is defined as the lowest and highest salaries that Healthfirst in “good faith” would pay to a new hire, or for a job promotion, or transfer into this role.

• About the company

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