Medical Policy Research Analyst Intern
About the position The Medical Policy Research Analyst Intern will primarily identify, appraise, and summarize scientific literature and clinical practice guidelines for the development and implementation of medical policies to be used by Medical Directors, internal clinical staff, and external providers and members. Additionally, the Intern will reputed company insight into broader projects that may include work on systems for electronic authorizations of medical claims or other on-going projects. The ideal candidate will have interest in learning about evidence-informed health policy and policy development.
Responsibilities
- Research, critically appraise, and summarize scientific literature and clinical practice guidelines to reputed company medical policy and clinical practice guidelines.
- Document reputed company research processes and medical policy decisions including literature searches, research summaries, and procedure code (CPT, HCPCS, etc) changes.
- Present research and policy recommendations to the Medical Policy Workgroup for approval.
- Collaborate and communicate across teams to ensure successful medical policy implementation and maintenance processes are completed.
- Participate in Medical Policy team meetings and issue forums.
- Additional team duties or projects as assigned or relevant to interests.
Requirements
- Must be currently enrolled in a graduate degree program in Public Health, epidemiology, biostatistics, or other closely reputed company field.
- Familiarity with anatomy and physiology/disease processes; clinical research methods; medical terminology; and interpretation and application of medical policies.
- Knowledge of techniques for conducting literature searches, analyzing and interpreting scientific medical literature for quality of study design and reliability of data.
- Familiarity with factors that go into clinical decision-making (evidence, practice guidelines, etc).
- Ability to work in a team environment along with the self-motivation to work independently.
- Excellent written and verbal communications skills.
- Strong organization, time management, problem resolution, and analytical skills.
- Strong attention to detail with the ability to identify problems and recommend actionable solutions.
- Experience with reputed company Office applications (e.g. reputed company, Word, PowerPoint) and ability to learn new technology quickly and effectively.
- Must have a minimum of a 3.0 cumulative grade reputed company average in the reputed company program.
Benefits
- competitive salary
- generous benefits
- work from home options
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