Home Health & Hospice Data Analysis Intern

Cornerstone Healthcare, Inc. is a leading home health and hospice provider seeking a Home Health & Hospice Data Analysis Intern. This role involves developing and maintaining systems and processes through data collection, supporting the PACC Director in various tasks related to alternative payment models and performance metrics.

What you'll do:

• Support PACC Director to Identify new network opportunities by tracking current participation alternative payment models and formulate recommendations to PACC resources
• Research, develop, and maintain alternative care and payment model systems, tools, and processes taking into considering quality, patient experience and financial impact
• Support PACC Director Resource to design innovative education presentations for home health agencies, potential network partners, current network partners, and the healthcare community
• Assist PACC Director in coordinating with agency IDT to identify PACC performance outcome metric goals and thresholds for requiring performance improvement plans
• Create, track, maintain and report on data for outcome metrics in alternative payment models participation, managed care contracts, and on company, cluster, and agency outcomes for Star and Home Health Compare
• Provide support for innovative payment model agreements, including specific performance outcome metrics, provider gain sharing, physician alignment and value based purchasing/pay for performance models
• Maintain current knowledge of alternative payment models (e.g., episodic payments: i.e., bundle payments for care improvement initiative, accountable-care organizations, managed care bundling and clinically integrated networks, etc.) and health care policy as it relates to continuum provider services, regulatory compliance and alternative payment models

What they're looking for:

• Must be currently enrolled in a Bachelor's Degree Program (rising Junior or Senior) majoring in a Healthcare related field
• Basic understanding of the post-acute care continuum, health care policy and alternative payment models (BPCI, ACO, Managed Care)
• Strong working knowledge of excel to develop and maintain tracking tools both financial and outcome based
• Must possess skills needed to collaborate and strategize with all continuum partners to build seamless quality transitional care processes across multiple settings within the continuum
• Basic knowledge base of the evolving changes within the healthcare industry
• Must be highly professional in demeanor
• Able to think outside the box
• Strong analytical and financial skills, and communication skills
• Must be a team player, critical and creative thinker, and able to build relationships across the team in order to push PACC initiatives forward