Healthcare Consulting Associate - Managed Care & Payment Strategy

Associate – Managed Care & Payment Strategy role at Huron involves partnering with client leaders to drive meaningful results in payer strategy, reimbursement performance, and contracting outcomes across healthcare organizations. The Associate will lead one or more project work streams, providing advanced financial, reimbursement, and utilization analyses, building complex financial models, and translating data into clear insights and recommendations. Key Activities Create managed care reimbursement analyses: Conduct detailed financial, reimbursement, and utilization analyses to evaluate payer performance, contract terms, reimbursement methodologies, and pricing strategies across commercial and government payers. Build and maintain complex financial models: Develop models incorporating multiple variables, assumptions, and scenarios to assess the impact of proposed contract changes, rate negotiations, reimbursement methodologies, and strategic initiatives. Support payer strategy and contract negotiation efforts: Assist with end‑to‑end managed care engagements, including pre‑negotiation analytics, contract and proposal modeling, payer and reimbursement performance benchmarking, and project implementation planning. Translate data into clear insights and recommendations: Synthesize complex analyses into defensible conclusions and client‑ready materials, including exhibits, executive presentations, and written recommendations for clinical, financial, and executive leadership. Collaborate in a team‑based consulting environment: Partner with consultants, managers, and client stakeholders to deliver high‑quality, timely, and actionable solutions tailored to each client’s unique market and organizational context. Manage components of a workstream progress and/or deliverable development: Partner with team members to identify and mitigate risks, proactively manage and optimize project outcomes. Supervise and mentor junior team members: Provide guidance, coaching, and quality review for junior staff, supporting skill development, task execution, and performance feedback across engagements. Leverage healthcare data sources and technology tools: Extract, structure, and analyze data from healthcare information systems, claims and/or remittance files/reports, national datasets, and public sources such as Price Transparency MRFs, using tools such as Microsoft Excel, Row Zero, relational databases, and business intelligence (BI) reporting and visualization tools. Support implementation and sustainability of solutions: Contribute to implementation planning and performance tracking to ensure recommendations are operationally feasible and deliver measurable, lasting impact. Requirements Bachelor’s degree in business, finance, economics, healthcare administration, analytics, or a related field. 3+ years of relevant experience in healthcare consulting, healthcare finance, managed care, revenue performance, or a comparable analytical, team‑based professional services environment. Strong managed care and reimbursement analytics capability with demonstrated ability to perform advanced reimbursement and financial analyses, including modeling payer contracts, reimbursement methodologies, and rate structures. Experience supporting managed care contracting and payer strategy, including exposure to payer negotiations, contract evaluation, managed care performance assessment, and implementation of reimbursement and pricing strategies. Advanced Excel and analytical skills: proficiency in building complex financial models; experience with Excel, relational databases, SQL queries, PowerBI, and/or similar tools strongly preferred. Healthcare financial acumen: working knowledge of healthcare financial statements, reimbursement mechanics, and healthcare accounting principles. Data sourcing and validation experience: ability to work with large, complex datasets from health systems, payer machine‑readable file data, clearinghouses or public data sources, including validating, reconciling, and documenting assumptions and results. Strong communication and presentation skills: ability to clearly explain complex analyses and recommendations to internal teams and client leadership through written deliverables and presentations. Leadership and collaboration mindset: demonstrated ability to mentor junior team members, work collaboratively, manage multiple priorities, and contribute to a high‑performing project team. Travel: ability to travel based on client, enterprise, or project needs (average travel less than 50% annually). US work authorization required#LI-CM1. Base salary range for this role is $100,000 – $145,000. With incentive compensation, total estimated compensation ranges between $112,000 and $171,100. Eligible for benefits including medical, dental, and vision coverage, 401(k) with employer match, employee stock purchase plan, paid time off, paid parental leave and adoption assistance, wellness programs, and other standard corporate benefits. Huron is fully committed to providing equal employment opportunity to job applicants and employees in recruitment, hiring, employment, compensation, benefits, promotions, transfers, training, and all other terms and conditions of employment. All refer to protected classes as defined by federal laws and regulations. Huron will not discriminate on the basis of age, race, color, gender, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, pregnancy, national origin, religion, veteran status, physical or mental disability, genetic information, creed, citizenship, or any other status protected by laws or regulations where we operate. Huron endeavors to maintain a drug‑free workplace. #J-18808-Ljbffr