Senior Medical Underwriter

**Company :**
Highmark Inc.
**Job Description :**

**GENERAL OVERVIEW:**

This job analyzes Individual and/or Group medical risk factors for new enrollment, yearly renewals, and amendments of group insurance contracts, or of self-funded plans in conformance with established underwriting policies, practices, and standards; analyzes associated policies, guidelines and market data to continuously improve risk management and gain appropriate enrollment or manage existing membership; analyzes data such as individual health, type of industry, characteristics of employee groups, or past claim experience to determine what benefits can be offered, which is a necessary component of the rates; prepares and presents first and second level medical underwriting appeals and applicable clinical records to physician advisors; and analyzes high medical cost claimants and prepares analytical reporting of current medical costs and predictive medical condition costs for purposes of as...