Intern, Finance

The University of Maryland Medical System (UMMS) is an academic private health system, focused on delivering compassionate, high quality care and putting discovery and innovation into practice at the bedside. Partnering with the University of Maryland School of Medicine, University of Maryland School of Nursing and University of Maryland, Baltimore who educate the state’s future health care professionals, UMMS is an integrated network of care, delivering 25 percent of all hospital care in urban, suburban and rural communities across the state of Maryland.

UMMS puts academic medicine within reach through primary and specialty care delivered at 11 hospitals, including the flagship University of Maryland Medical Center, the System’s anchor institution in downtown Baltimore, as well as through a network of University of Maryland Urgent Care centers and more than 150 other locations in 13 counties. For more information, visit (Use the "Apply for this Job" box below)..

• A college intern working in the field of healthcare accounting helps in the development and implementation of UMMS policies and practices in the designated area of accounting and financial reporting. By getting hands‑on experience by working under a financial reporting leader, he/she is able to participate in healthcare financial operations and learn to follow the impact of and respond to financial trends.
• The intern will have opportunities to practically apply their theoretical knowledge of financial operations to their day to day assigned work at UMMS.
• Under direct supervision, the college intern works directly with various financial reporting staff to develop, analyze, report and interpret financial and statistical information to assist management in the formation, implementation and execution of the organization’s business plans.
• The finance internship is a mutually beneficial arrangement whereby the intern learns to apply classroom learning to a live business environment while UMMS leadership has an opportunity to observe and develop the intern’s skills and abilities.
• The internship should be viewed by the intern as an opportunity that could result in full‑time employment in the future, and accordingly the intern is expected to exhibit professionalism, be inquisitive, and develop effective working relationships with UMMS staff and leadership.

• Internal financial reporting to Board and Management, and external financial reporting to Bond Rating Agencies and Bond Holders
• Oversight and completion of monthly and annual financial statement close procedures and annual consolidated financial statement audit
• Compliance with UMMS financial policies and procedures
• Establish annual HSCRC approved Global Budget Revenue (“G ”) and corresponding unit rates. Ensure UMMS is receiving maximum allowed GBRs for each hospital.
• Ensure approved hospital rates are set to charge to full approved annual G .
• Negotiate hospital specific G  improvement opportunities with HSCRC.
• Provide annual hospital revenue budgets using estimated approved G  and unit rates.
• Meet all federal and state regulatory reporting requirements.
• Monitor & report hospital specific HSCRC quality measure performance.

The following statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by people working in an intern role. These are not to be construed as an exhaustive list of all job duties to be performed.

• Assists in the preparation of various reports for reporting organizational activity for use by Finance Shared Services and other UMMS departments, including various statistical, compliance and regulatory reports for outside agencies such as Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), Health Services Cost Review Commission (HSCRC), and the Maryland Hospital Association (MHA) in accordance with the requesting agencies standards and requirements.
• Assists with monitoring and investigating various financial transactions.
• Assists with the preparation of various surveys and special requests by senior management and/or outside regulatory agencies.
• Assists departments to provide analytical and…