Associate, Health System Contracting
Oscar Health · Business Operations
- Where
- Remote
- Posted
- Sep 2
Hi, we're Oscar. We're hiring a Health System Contracting Associate to join our Network Contracting team.
Oscar is the first health insurance company built around a full stack technology platform and a relentless focus on serving our members. We started Oscar in 2012 to create the kind of health insurance company we would want for ourselves—one that behaves like a doctor in the family.
What you'd do
- Support the development and execution of market-level contracting strategies that advance Oscar's network adequacy, growth, affordability, and member-experience objectives.
- Analyze and evaluate provider economics, reimbursement arrangements, utilization, competitive dynamics, and contract performance.
- Translate complex financial and operational analyses into clear recommendations for negotiation strategy and contracting decisions.
- Prepare for and participate in negotiations with hospitals and health systems, including developing reimbursement rate models, contract positions, presentation materials, and scenario analyses.
- Negotiate and manage contracts with assigned healthcare providers, with guidance from senior team members, focusing on sustainable economics, clear terms, and compliance with organizational and regulatory requirements.
- Conduct comprehensive reviews of existing provider agreements to identify financial, operational, and contractual improvement opportunities.
- Manage cross-functional contracting workstreams from initial analysis through negotiation, execution, and implementation, proactively identifying risks and driving issues to resolution.
- Support improvements to contracting tools, policies, workflows, and performance reporting.
- Monitor assigned networks to gauge compliance with standards, developing corrective action plans with network contracting and market leadership to remediate deficiencies.
- Compliance with all applicable laws and regulations
What they want
- 3+ years of experience in healthcare client management, healthcare consulting, strategy and operations, healthcare contracting, healthcare finance, payer or provider operations, or a related analytical field.
- 2+ years of experience supporting analytical or strategic workstreams and developing recommendations for senior stakeholders.
- 1+ years experience analyzing complex financial or operational data and translating findings into actionable business recommendations.
- 1+ years experience navigating and organizing large data sets such as hospital price transparency reimbursement, claim files and provider rosters
- Experience supporting negotiations, commercial agreements, strategic partnerships, or other complex, cross-functional initiatives.
About Oscar Health · Business Operations
The Health System Contracting Associate helps develop and execute Oscar's network strategy by evaluating, negotiating, and managing partnerships with hospitals and health systems. You will combine financial analysis, strategic problem-solving, and relationship management to improve affordability, network access, and the member experience. In this role, you will analyze provider performance, financial information, and market dynamics, develop negotiation strategies, support complex contract nego…