Metroplushealth Summer Internship: Utilization Management

MetroPlusHealth provides the highest quality healthcare services to residents of Bronx, Brooklyn, Manhattan, Queens and Staten Island through a comprehensive list of products, including, but not limited to, New York State Medicaid Managed Care, Medicare, Child Health Plus, Exchange, Partnership in Care, MetroPlus Gold, Essential Plan, etc. As a wholly-owned subsidiary of NYC Health + Hospitals, the largest public health system in the United States, MetroPlusHealth's network includes over 27,000 primary care providers, specialists and participating clinics. For more than 30 years, MetroPlusHealth has been committed to building strong relationships with its members and providers to enable New Yorkers to live their healthiest life.

Position Overview

Join us this summer (June – August) for a highly interactive and engaging internship experience where you get to work alongside various departments to develop your skills and learn more about the health insurance and healthcare industry.

Department Requesting:  Graduate Student

Interns will also participate in workshops, activities and other events organized by MetroPlusHealth

*Note: This is a paid internship program.  Prospective interns must be current students attending an accredited College or University and must be 18 years or older to be considered. 

• The intern will help the UM department obtain and organize data and then analyze the data.  One main emphasis will be to obtain data on patients with peripheral vascular disease and the use of topical oxygen therapy.  Much of the data will be obtained form our SQL databases and then converted to a SAS database for analysis.  The analysis will consist of survival analysis (time to death and time to amputation) as well as mixed models.  Much of the modeling will be done with propensity score matching

• Masters or PhD student in statistics or biostatistics

Licensure and/or Certification Required

• SAS certification preferred

Professional Competencies

• The intern will have access to sensitive patient information; the intern is expected to keep all data and analysis safe and to share information only to authorized co-workers
• The intern will not interact directly with members; the project will focus on improving care and minimizing waste
• The programming will be largely in SAS, with some SQL coding. The intern should understand the statistical principles underlying survival analysis and mixed modeling 
• The intern is expected to present the results of the analysis internally at MetroPlus and possibly externally at specialty meetings.  With help, the intern is expected to write the results of the analysis as an academic research paper.
• Integrity and Trust
• Customer Focus
• Functional/Technical Skills
• Written/Oral Communications

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