Health Economics & Outcomes Research (HEOR) Intern

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Job Description

Primary Function of Position

The HEOR Intern will join Intuitive’s Future Forward Medical Affairs team for a 10–12 week summer internship, reporting to the Staff Epidemiologist, Future Forward Medical Affairs. The intern will own a defined, scoped real-world evidence project, using administrative claims data and reimbursement coding (CPT/HCPCS, ICD-10-CM/PCS, MS-DRG) to characterize patient populations, procedure volumes, healthcare resource utilization, and costs for a technology in development. Working alongside senior epidemiology, data science, and market access colleagues, the intern will contribute analyses that inform value propositions and may help translate findings into inputs for budget impact or other economic models. The internship culminates in a final presentation to Future Forward leadership and cross-functional partners.

Essential Job Duties

• Real-World Data Analysis: With guidance from senior team members, conduct a retrospective claims-based analysis to characterize patient populations, estimate procedure volumes, and describe utilization, outcomes, and costs relevant to a Future Forward pipeline technology.
• Coding & Cohort Definition: Identify and validate CPT/HCPCS, ICD-10-CM/PCS, and MS-DRG code sets to define target populations, procedures, comorbidities, and outcomes; document code lists and assumptions so they can be reused by the team.
• Study Planning & Programming: Contribute to a brief study protocol and statistical analysis plan; write, document, and quality-check analytic code, partnering with the team’s data scientist on shared data pipelines.
• Evidence Review: Conduct a targeted literature review to inform study design, benchmark findings against published evidence, and surface evidence gaps for the technology under study.
• Economic Modeling Support: Where relevant, translate claims-based estimates (e.g., procedure volumes, event rates, costs) into inputs for budget impact or other economic models, and support model development or validation.
• Communication: Summarize findings in clear visualizations and slides; deliver a final presentation to Future Forward leadership; contribute to a draft abstract where findings warrant.