Empower Every New Yorker - Without Exception - to Live the Healthiest Life Possible

NYC Health + Hospitals is the largest public health care system in the United States. We provide essential outpatient, inpatient and home-based services to more than one million New Yorkers every year across the city's five boroughs. Our large health system consists of ambulatory centers, acute care centers, post-acute care/long-term care, rehabilitation programs, Home Care, and Correctional Health Services. Our diverse workforce is uniquely focused on empowering New Yorkers, without exception, to live the healthiest life possible.

At NYC Health + Hospitals, our mission is to deliver high quality care health services, without exception. Every employee takes a person-centered approach that exemplifies the ICARE values (Integrity, Compassion, Accountability, Respect, and Excellence) through empathic communication and partnerships between all persons.

Job Description

Summary of Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
• Intern will be responsible for developing a value-based payment strategy for improving population health and mitigating total cost of care for a subset of NYC Health + Hospital's attributed patient population.
• Intern is expected to analyze existing administrative, financial, and clinical processes and datasets and propose creative, realistic solutions to improve population health oversight and management.
• Intern's proposed strategy and intervention will focus on improving population health for vulnerable New Yorkers with acute care needs, such as New Yorkers experiencing homelessness.
• Intern will have the opportunity to shadow NYC H+H clinicians in care settings, conduct subject matter expert interviews with internal stakeholders, and participate in Managed Care meetings.
• Intern will be expected to support ongoing and ad-hoc project management tasks, such as notetaking, organizational tasks using SharePoint and shared drives, developing educational slide decks for colleagues, writing a monthly newsletter, and drafting one-pagers on key Managed Care topics of interest.
• As the capstone of their internship, interns will be responsible for developing a VBP business plan and an implementation plan for the proposed sub-population, including projecting the business plan's financial impact on NYC H+H, developing a cost-benefit analysis, and thinking through the operational implementation strategy.

This position will have a duration of 4 months.

Minimum Qualifications

Students entering graduate or professional studies (beyond a Bachelors degree) and subsequent years of study.

Department Preferences
• Finance & Financial Modeling
• Healthcare Operations
• Quantitative & Qualitative Analysis
• Excel, Tableau, and/or SQL
• Demonstrated Interest in Health Policy or Practice
• Familiarity with U.S. Health Insurance Infrastructure

If applying online, please include your cover letter in the same file attachment with your uploaded resume.

NYC Health and Hospitals offers a competitive benefits package that includes:

• Comprehensive Health Benefits for employees hired to work 20+ hrs. per week
• Retirement Savings and Pension Plans
• Loan Forgiveness Programs for eligible employees
• Paid Holidays and Vacation in accordance with employees' Collectively bargained contracts
• College tuition discounts and professional development opportunities
• Multiple employee discounts programs