Payer Strategy Student Intern

JOB SUMMARY / PURPOSE

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Internship Opportunity: This internship is a perfect opportunity for an undergrad student interested in both legal contract work and healthcare administration. You’ll help the Payer Strategy and Analytics team by reviewing and comparing healthcare contract terms, and documenting proposed changes. If you enjoy organizing information, paying attention to detail, and working with contract language, this role will be a great fit. No prior contract experience is required, though a basic understanding of contract terms is helpful.

What you’ll do:

Review contracts: Help compare current contract language with proposed changes and summarize what’s different.
Document changes: Create a redline summary document that shows the changes between contract versions.
Track changes: Assist in organizing and tracking proposed changes to help everyone clearly understand the updates.
Analyze agreements: Help collect data from different healthcare agreements to track participation details, like which plans are involved in each agreement.
Research financial data: Assist in summarizing financial performance data, including membership and product changes for Blue Shield of California over the past few years.

Who this is for:

This internship is ideal for an undergrad student who is organized, detail-oriented, and interested in learning about the connection between legal contracts and healthcare operations. While previous experience with contracts is not required, a basic understanding of contract principles will help you succeed.

Why it’s a great opportunity:

Gain hands-on experience with contract language and healthcare administration.
Learn about how healthcare agreements work, including the legal and financial aspects.
Develop skills in organizing and summarizing important data for real-world applications.
Work with professionals in healthcare and legal teams, gaining insight into the business side of the industry.

This is a great chance to bridge your academic interests with real-world applications, making it a valuable addition to your professional experience!

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ESSENTIAL KEY JOB RESPONSIBILITIES

• Supports the review of new contract terms, specifically comparing the current agreement language to the proposed agreement language.
• Documents the change from the current contract terms to the proposed in a redline review of all changes.
• Coordinates the tracking of all proposed changes into a comprehensive language tool supporting a full understanding of all contract language provision changes.
• Identify, collect, and summarize product specific participation data from a wide variety of agreements into a comprehensive dashboard summarizing plan specific participation by plan relationship.
• Identify, collect, and summarize product specific termination dates across the entire Blue Shield of California relationship, including value based agreements.
• Research and summarize Blue Shield of California’s financial performance data over the last three fiscal years, including membership and product changes year over year.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

Required Education and Experience
Sophomore or Junior with a basic understanding of contractual framework and an interest in legal/language in terms of agreements.

Required Minimum Knowledge, Skills, Abilities and Training
Knowledge of and/or experience with contractual agreements.
Exposure to project management skills.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
Expertise with Excel and Word, Google Suite and/or similar applications.

SUMMARY OF ESSENTIAL COGNITIVE FUNCTIONS

Ability to comprehend and follow instructions; maintain attention and concentration for necessary periods; synthesize, coordinate, and analyze data, perform simple and repetitive tasks; maintain a work pace appropriate to given workload; perform complex and varied tasks; relate to other people beyond giving and receiving instructions; get along with co-workers and peers; understand the meaning of words and how to use them appropriately and effectively; understand and remember detailed instructions; make independent decisions or exercise judgment based on appropriate information; accept and carry out responsibility for direction, control and planning.

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