Cigna
Encore-Competitive Unit Cost Advisor
United States Work at Home
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 6 days ago
Project ManagementFinancial AnalysisAccountingExcelCustomer SupportCommunicationUnderwritingFiber Optics
About the role
- Competitive Unit Cost Advisor - Provider Contracting - Encore (Cigna Retiree Program) The Competitive Unit Cost Advisor helps review and explain Cigna's cost position in local markets.
- The goal is to help teams better understand cost trends by market, product, and provider.
- The advisor will help compare past and future cost trends against plan goals, find reasons for differences, and identify areas for improvement.
Responsibilities
- Present cost insights and analysis to Contracting and other business partners.
- Compare Cigna's current unit cost position to competitors and create reports that show key findings.
- Partner with teams across the business to gather competitive data and understand market trends.
- Work with Pricing, Underwriting, and Sales to support accurate cost assumptions.
- Create or support tools and reports that help markets reach cost goals.
- Support special projects as needed.
- Strong communication, customer service, and relationship-building skills.
- Ability to influence internal and external partners.
Requirements
- 4+ years of financial analysis experience in managed care required.
- Strong ability to review and understand both numbers-based and written provider data.
- Advanced Excel skills required.
- Ability to work well in a team-based, matrixed environment.
- Ability to work with both high-level ideas and detailed data.
- Ability to improve data collection, reduce costs, and stay focused on results.
- Strong understanding of managed care processes, data, systems, payment methods, provider information, and claims or utilization data.
- Ability to make sound recommendations, even when all information is not available.
- Bachelor's degree required; Finance, Accounting, Mathematics, or a related field preferred.
Nice to have
- Bachelor's degree required
- Finance, Accounting, Mathematics, or a related field preferred.
Benefits
- Support analysis related to coordination of benefits, medical cost reporting, unit cost plans, hospital transparency, payer transparency, local market reviews, market and provider comparisons, and event planning.
- Review discounts by product, market, and type of medical expense to find trends.
- Review market unit cost positions and partner with leaders to find opportunities to lower medical costs.
- 5+ years of medical cost analysis experience in managed healthcare required.
Visa & Work Authorization
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