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Centene · Summer 2027
Public Health & Health Administration Intern: a project built for this posting
A 2027 undergraduate internship at managed care company Centene, contributing to projects in areas such as health outcomes and care delivery. Interns also research regulatory and industry topics and attend development sessions.
- Company
- Centene
- Posting title
- Public Health & Health Administration 2027 Intern (Undergraduate)
- Location
- Remote (US)
- Season
- Summer 2027
- Majors named
- Public Health, Health Administration
Checked open on the employer's careers site on 2026-10-21. Read the full posting ↗
What this role is really testing
The project
Medicaid Managed Care Quality Scorecard
A one-page visual scorecard that benchmarks a selected state's Medicaid managed care program across three to four key quality metrics, such as HEDIS measures, member satisfaction scores, and preventable hospitalization rates, sourced from publicly available CMS and NCQA data. This maps directly to the role because it demonstrates the candidate can do exactly what the internship requires: research regulatory and industry topics, synthesize findings, and communicate results clearly to stakeholders.
- Pick one state's Medicaid managed care program and pull three to four concrete metrics from public sources, CMS Medicaid.gov scorecards, NCQA Health Plan Ratings, or Kaiser Family Foundation data, focusing on measures Centene-type plans are actually accountable for, such as well-child visits, diabetes care, or emergency department utilization rates. Record the state's figure, the national Medicaid average, and a top-performer benchmark for each metric so the scorecard tells a comparative story, not just a list of numbers.
- Build the scorecard as a single, well-formatted Google Doc or Google Sheet: one row per metric, columns for the state value, national average, top-performer benchmark, and a plain-English 'so what' sentence explaining why that metric matters for member health outcomes. Add a three-to-five sentence executive summary at the top framing the state's overall performance and identifying the one area with the biggest gap, this mirrors the project-status communication the job description explicitly calls out.
- Add a 'Recommended Initiative' section of four to six bullet points proposing a concrete quality improvement intervention for the worst-performing metric, for example, a care management outreach program or a preventive care reminder campaign, citing at least one real Medicaid managed care best practice or CMS Innovation Center model as evidence. This section shows analytical and problem-solving skill, not just data retrieval, and gives the recruiter something substantive to discuss in an interview.
Free account. Provieo walks you through it and turns it into a page with a link you can put on your application. This posting comes with you.
Questions
Do I need to know how to code?
No. For roles like this one, Provieo builds the project as a live case-study page: slides, tables and findings you fill in. You bring the thinking.
Where did this project come from?
Provieo read the Centene posting and generated it on 2026-10-21. If you paste the same posting yourself you may get a different project, so two applicants don't show up with the same one.
Is Provieo connected to Centene?
No. This is an independent project idea based on a public posting. It does not guarantee an interview.