Dental Benefits Intern (Pharmacy Department) - 2025 Summer Internship

Description and Requirements

Healthfirst's 2025 Summer Trailblazer Internship is a 10-week paid program beginning on June 2, 2025. This is an immersive and interactive learning experience, that lays a foundation for continued leadership development. Interns do impactful work, collaborating with other interns, employees, and business leaders to solve current business problems and deliver solutions. Who We Are: For nearly 30 years, Healthfirst has been serving New Yorkers. We helped pioneer the value-based healthcare model-where hospitals and physicians are paid based on patient outcomes-because our company was founded on the belief that insurers need to be true partners in the health system. Position Summary: The Dental Benefits Intern is responsible for assisting in the planning, design, and implementation of dental initiatives to further enhance our current dental benefits offering and improve vendor oversight. This role will help support improving dental access and experience for members and providers.

Duties & Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with Dental managers to gather and document requirements for dental services and initiatives

• Conduct market research to determine effective and sustainable programs to increase preventive care

• Support collection and analysis of member feedback

• Assist in analyzing dental performance metrics and generate insights for business planning

• Validate the accuracy of dental directory to meet Healthfirst performance targets and/or compliance standards

• Create visually appealing presentations that demonstrate data-driven insights to promote data driven decision making

• Prepare ad-hoc reports as required by the Dental Benefit Services team

• Additional duties as assigned or necessary

Minimum Qualifications:

• Undergraduate students must be a junior or senior at an accredited institution or have graduated within 12 months of the program. Graduate students must be enrolled at an accredited institution or have graduated within 12 months of the program.

• Ability to problem solve, synthesize information and attention to detail

• Strong written and verbal communication skills

• Excellent analytical skills, and both written and oral communication skills required

• Proficiency in Microsoft Excel, Word, and PowerPoint

• Eligible to work in the U.S.

• Will not require sponsorship for employment

Preferred Qualifications:

• Senior on track to graduate with a Bachelor's degree (Spring 2025), preferably in analytics, public health, business, economics, or another related field, Master's degree candidate, preferably in public health, business, or health administration, or Dental graduate student

• Experience developing market research, knowledge of health care and dental industry, systems, and products

Hiring Range:

• Greater New York City Area (NY, NJ, CT residents): $39,208 - $52,000
• All Other Locations (within approved locations): $34,091 - $49,920

As a candidate for this position, your salary and related elements of compensation will be contingent upon your work experience, education, licenses and certifications, and any other factors Healthfirst deems pertinent to the hiring decision.

In addition to your salary, Healthfirst offers employees a full range of benefits such as, medical, dental and vision coverage, incentive and recognition programs, life insurance, and 401k contributions (all benefits are subject to eligibility requirements). Healthfirst believes in providing a competitive compensation and benefits package wherever its employees work and live.

The hiring range is defined as the lowest and highest salaries that Healthfirst in "good faith" would pay to a new hire, or for a job promotion, or transfer into this role.

WE ARE AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER. Applicants and employees are considered for positions and are evaluated without regard to mental or physical disability, race, color, religion, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, age, genetic information, military or veteran status, marital status, mental or physical disability or any other protected Federal, State/Province or Local status unrelated to the performance of the work involved.