What are the responsibilities and job description for the 2026 Winter/Spring Value-Based Platform Internship position at Blue Shield of CA?
Your Role
The Value-Based Platform team oversees and executes operations and implementations for the Pay for Value program. The program is housed under Network Strategy & Provider Partnerships and involves applying value-based payment models to care delivery with the goal of lowering health care costs while improving outcomes via the use of incentives tied to performance within the model. The value-based platform intern will report to the Senior Manager on the Value-Based Platform team. In this role, they will support a variety of tasks related to operations, such as report delivery, quality assurance and payment processing.
Your Knowledge and Experience
- Actively pursuing a bachelor's or master's degree in public health, business, health care or related field
- Must reside in the state of California for the duration of the internship
- Minimum 1 year of related professional experience, project, or coursework
- Strong communication skills required, particularly writing for publication
- Proactive, solution focused mindset with demonstrated creative, problem-solving skills
- Knowledge of the key synergies necessary among practices, payers, community, populations, and policy leaders to better align health care transformation efforts
- Passionate about changing healthcare and challenging the status quo to advance health equity
- Proficient in Microsoft applications, including Outlook, Word, Excell, and SharePoint
Pay
$25.00 per hour for Undergraduate
$30.00 per hour for Graduate
About Our Internships
Our paid internship program is thoughtfully curated to provide students experience and exposure to the health professional industry. Interns will be given the opportunity to get hands-on experience with real work projects, build meaningful relationship and connections within the organization, and experience our mission and enterprise goals through our program curriculum centered on our leadership model (Personal, People, Thought, and Results Leadership). To see more about our internship program, check out this video.
Our Winter/Spring 2026 Internship is January 26th through May 15th, 2026.
Application Process and Timeline:
- Now: Actively accepting applications
- December If you meet the requirements, you will receive an invitation to complete Pre-Recorded Video Interview
- December - January: 2nd round interviews & offers extended
As an intern at Blue Shield of California, you will:
- Participate in impactful projects during a 16-week internship program
- Undertake a 16-week internship at 20 hours per week, curriculum designed to familiarize interns with BSC, leadership development, exposure to the healthcare industry, and more
- Be invited to participate in BSC employee events and networking opportunities such as Employee Resource Groups, employee volunteer activities, and more
External hires must pass a background check/drug screen. Qualified applicants with arrest records and/or conviction records will be considered for employment in a manner consistent with Federal, State and local laws, including but not limited to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regards to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, protected veteran status or disability status and any other classification protected by Federal, State and local laws.