HOPCo Overview

Healthcare Outcomes Performance Company (HOPCo) is the leading provider of musculoskeletal value-based health outcomes, service line and practice management. This includes comprehensive management and optimization of specialties such as orthopedics, spine, hand, pain management, rehabilitation, and neurology.

HOPCo’s integrated care and analytics platform has proven to increase the quality of patient care and program revenue while reliably reducing the total cost of care across the care continuum for practices, health systems and payors alike effectively bending the cost curve and reducing the total year over year spend for musculoskeletal services when most are seeing a 14% year over year increase.

HOPCo’s affiliated payors, practices and health systems successfully participate in highly efficient value-based contracting (bundled payments, capitated population health programs, and other risk-based arrangements) utilizing HOPCo’s proprietary platforms, IT solutions, integrated analytics, and standardized care pathways. This helps our partners obtain real time, actionable insights into their systems, allowing them to comprehensively manage the entire business while improving outcomes for their treasured patients. As a result, HOPCo has become the only organization with proven and sustainable success in population health management of musculoskeletal specialty care.

Our Mission: To continually define the standard of patient care through the commitment to excellence, innovation, and learning.

Our Values: The Patient, Evidence, Commit, Innovate, Grow

A Culture of Service – Every Patient Every Time

• • • Accountability
    • Excellence
    • Integrity
    • Originality
    • Unity

Administrative Internship

HOPCo offers a unique summer administrative internship program with one of the nation’s leading providers in musculoskeletal value-based health outcomes, health system service line and physician practice management.

Interns will receive broad exposure to the breadth of HOPCo’s musculoskeletal integrated delivery system and increase their understanding of management in a dynamic healthcare setting through participation in a wide variety of meaningful projects, interdisciplinary meetings, and other professional growth experiences. These experiences are gained through exposure to a wide array of healthcare players including the corporate office, hospitals, clinics, and payors. This program provides interns the opportunity to contribute their skills, abilities, and talents to major projects and initiatives that impact our business, the lives of our patients, and the future of healthcare.

Project Examples

• Development of concierge orthopedic service model
• Development and implementation of model to support preoperative medical clearances
• Automation of monthly finance reporting and forecast process

Program Objective

• Cultivate a philosophy, code of ethics and set of values in a company dedicated to excellence in patient care and healthcare administration
• Develop leadership skills
• Acquire marketable administrative and technical skills
• Demonstrate management potential in specific areas at various levels through diversified line and/or staff responsibilities that will contribute to the organization

Organization Objectives

• Provide a proven bridge from academia to practice
• Expose talented individuals to the philosophy, mission and values of HOPCo
• Provide the opportunity for executives of HOPCo to develop and exercise teaching and mentoring skills

Process and Timeline

• The internship is a 10-12 week program held during the summer between the student’s first and second year
• A competitive salary is provided

Application Procedure

The application process for the 2023 – 2024 Administrative Intern Cohort has ended. Check back next fall for the 2024  Administrative Internship Application.

Eligibility Requirements

• Candidates must be currently enrolled in and completed the first year of a master’s degree program in Healthcare Administration (MHA), Business Administration (MBA), Public Health (MPH), or equivalent professional degree.
• Candidates must be U.S. citizens or permanent residents. HOPCo is unable to sponsor work visas.

Questions?

Please contact our current fellows: Benjamin.Goldberg@HOPCo.com & Simran.Sahnan@HOPCo.com