Medical Policy Coordinator

About Avalon Healthcare Solutions:

Avalon Healthcare Solutions is the world's first and only Lab Insights company, bringing together our proven Lab Benefit Management solutions, lab science expertise, digitized lab values, and proprietary analytics to help healthcare insurers proactively inform appropriate care, reduce costs, and improve clinical outcomes. Working with health plans nationwide, the company covers over 44+ million lives and delivers 10-20% proven outpatient lab benefit savings. Avalon is pioneering a new era of value-driven care with its Lab Insights Program that captures, digitizes, and analyzes lab results in real-time to provide actionable insights for earlier disease detection, ensuring appropriate treatment protocols and driving down overall costs. 

Avalon is a portfolio company of Francisco Partners, a global private equity firm that specializes in investments in technology and technology-enabled service companies. Avalon is a high growth company where every associate has an opportunity to make a difference. 

Avalon has years of expertise in managing lab benefits and now is leveraging digitized lab results to drive quality clinical outcomes and proven savings.  When you look at how we bring this to life, we offer Lab Insights solutions that work together to arm you with critical lab-driven insights to accelerate your value-driven care success.  This is the first-of-its-kind suite of solutions to help you achieve the Triple Aim of improving the patient experience of care, improving the health of populations, and reducing the per-member cost of healthcare.

You will be part of a team that shapes a new market and business. Most importantly, you will help Avalon to achieve its mission and improve clinical outcomes and health care affordability for the people we serve.

For more information about Avalon, please visit www.avalonhcs.com.

About the Medical Policy Coordinator Intern:

Medical Policy Coordinator Intern will support the Scientific Affairs team in researching, developing, and reviewing medical policies. This internship is designed for a current undergraduate or graduate student pursuing a degree in a healthcare-related field such as Public Health, Health Policy, Biology, Nursing, Pre-Med, or a related discipline.   

This is a part-time summer internship opportunity that is eligible for remote work, but travel to the corporate office in Tampa, FL may be requested during the assignment.

Medical Policy Coordinator Intern - Essential Functions and Responsibilities:

• Complete conversion of Laboratory Policies initial draft of Translation Guide, as assigned by Scientific Affairs Manager Implementation Consultant 
• Conduct policy research to support maintenance of science intent in Translation Guide library 
• Thoughtfully map rationale to bridge between Laboratory Policies and Translation Guide 
• Actively participate in work teams to ensure overall deliverables meet the needs of both client and internal processes 

Medical Policy Coordinator Intern - Minimum Qualifications:

• Current grad student, with focused studies in one of the following: healthcare administration, public health, political science or public administration, public policy.
• Strong analytical abilities to interpret complex information.
• Excellent communication skills and writing abilities.

Medical Policy Coordinator Intern - Preferred Qualifications:

• Prior experience in a healthcare setting with exposure to billing, advocacy, laboratory science, or claims processing
• Prior experience in policy research and a developed skillset in policy writing and translation