What are the responsibilities and job description for the Data Analyst Intern – Summer 2025 position at WPS Health Solutions?
Role Snapshot
Our GHA Government Services - CMS InSight Data Analysis Team delivers better, faster, and more informed business decisions to stakeholders by finding the optimal intersection between Medicare’s “big data”, data analysis, and modeling to fit customer needs.
Our internship program is comprised of two key components. The first component involves gaining practical experience to supplement academic coursework and prepare for future career pursuits. Each internship incorporates responsibilities and tasks which support the business objectives and client service offerings, while providing ongoing collaboration with experienced departmental colleagues and exposure to "real world" business demands. The second element centers on exposure to corporate culture and professional development. Interns will participate in discussions with internal and external speakers focused on building soft-skills and business acumen.
Hourly Rate of Pay
- The starting hourly range for this position is $20/hour to $23/hour
The base pay offered for this position may vary within the posted range based on your job-related knowledge, skills, and experience.
Work Location
This role will occasionally work out of our Madison, WI headquarters, our first consideration will be individuals located in Wisconsin, near Madison, WI, to take advantage of possible hybrid work options. Our office location: WPS Corporate Center Building - 1717 W. Broadway in Madison, WI.
What you will do as a Data Analyst Intern:
- Learn about Medicare and health insurance claims, including claim, provider, and beneficiary detailed information, how they related to each other, and how the claims process in payment systems.
- Gain access to the One PI Medicare claims database with specialized training regarding database structure, commonly used variables, and querying best practices.
- Perform ad hoc data requests for operational areas and their Medicare contract requirements.
- Participate in quality assurance reviews of peer data requests.
- Gain skills and experience that could allow for advancement within our GHA Government Services area.
How do I know this opportunity is right for me? If you:
- Enjoy working with BIG DATA!
- Love analyzing data for trends and outcomes.
- Are creative, innovative, and get excited about using data differently!
What will I gain from this role?
- Experience working with a forward thinking and highly collaborative team.
- Get to do fun and exploratory data analysis that will have real world business implications!
- Learn about the Medicare program.
- Learn a great deal and develop a well-rounded business toolkit that will serve you well wherever you go.
- Working in an environment that serves our Nation’s military, veterans, Guard and Reserves along with their families.
- Gaining valuable experience that aligns with your career goals.
- Working in a continuous performance feedback environment.
Minimum Qualifications
- Currently pursuing a degree in higher education or are a recent graduate.
- Have experience with Microsoft Office (i.e., Word, Excel, Outlook, etc.).
Preferred Qualifications
- Have interest and ability to consider work (potentially part-time or full-time) after the official internship program has completed.
- Currently pursuing a degree in Data Science, Healthcare Informatics, Statistics, Computer Science, Mathematics, or related field.
- Have experience with Microsoft Office (i.e., Word, Excel, Outlook, etc.).
- Have experience with business intelligence/analytic tools or programming languages used to interpret results and summarization for presentations such as: SQL, R, Python, SAS, SAP Business Objects, or Power BI.
- Experience with Medicare, Medicaid, Healthcare, Insurance, or Claims data.
- Exposure to evaluation of clinical or business processes.
- Professional healthcare analytics experience.
Remote Work Requirements
- High speed cable or fiber internet
- Minimum of 10 Mbps downstream and at least 1 Mbps upstream internet connection (can be checked at https://speedtest.net)
- Please review Remote Worker FAQs for additional information
Benefits
- Innovative, professional, and cognitive development programs
- Paid time off
- Holiday pay
Who We Are
WPS Health Solutions is a leading not-for-profit health insurer and federal government contractor headquartered in Wisconsin. WPS offers health insurance plans for individuals, families, seniors, and group health plans for small to large businesses. We process claims and provide customer support for beneficiaries of the Medicare program and manage benefits for millions of active-duty and retired military personnel across the U.S. and abroad. WPS Health Solutions has been making health care easier for the people we serve for more than 75 years. Proud to be military and veteran ready.
Culture Drives Our Success
WPS’ Culture is where the great work and innovations of our people are seen, fueled, and rewarded. We accomplish this by creating an open and empowering employee experience. We recognize the benefits of employee engagement as an investment in our workforce—both current and future—to effectively seek, leverage, and include differing and unique perspectives that fuel agility and innovation on high-performing teams. This results in people bringing their authentic selves to work every day in an organization that successfully adapts to business changes and new opportunities.
We are proud of the recognition we have received from local and national organization regarding our culture and workplace: WPS Newsroom - Awards and Recognition.
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Salary : $20 - $23
