Health Underwriter jobs in Portland, OR
Health Underwriter reviews applications for coverage, gathers data, and assesses risk related to qualifying a candidate for health insurance. Calculates and recommends pricing. Being a Health Underwriter performs group and/or individual underwriting. May require a bachelor's degree. Additionally, Health Underwriter typically reports to a supervisor or manager. The Health Underwriter gains exposure to some of the complex tasks within the job function. Occasionally directed in several aspects of the work. To be a Health Underwriter typically requires 2 to 4 years of related experience. (Copyright 2024 Salary.com)
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Underwriter I
- Kaiser Permanente
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Portland, OR
OTHER
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Job Summary:
Evaluates standard data to understand premium, claim, exposure, and population. Works with team to identify actionable data insights and irregularities. Learns to use and document models, tools, and assumptions that support business strategy analysis and risk management. Supports the implementation of quality and process improvement efforts. Learns to work in support of department initiatives, program, and enterprise goals. With guidance, assesses risk of accounts. Develops basic knowledge of the external business environment. With guidance, presents renewal recommendations to clients/organization. Based on guidance, collaborates internally to develop case/investment strategies. Assists in developing rates and account plans that mitigate risk. Reviewing information to support rate negotiations. Under supervision, ensures external understanding of underwriting approach. Helps address data needs and requests. Learns to build relationships with customers and channel partners. Under significant guidance, works with internal partners to bring financial solutions to customers. Learns to provide and leverage self/peer review of own work. Maintains compliance with relevant policies, guidelines, and procedures.
Essential Responsibilities:- Pursues effective relationships with others by sharing information with coworkers and members. Listens to and addresses performance feedback. Pursues self-development; acknowledges strengths and weaknesses, and takes action. Adapts to and learns from change, challenges, and feedback. Responds to the needs of others to support a business outcome.
- Completes routine work assignments by following procedures and policies and using data, and resources with oversight and management. Collaborates with others to address business problems; escalates issues or risks as appropriate; communicates progress and information. Adheres to established priorities, deadlines, and expectations. Identifies and speaks up for improvement opportunities.
- Supports the analysis and reporting of data by: evaluating standard data to understand premium, claim, exposure, and inform understanding of population risk, with guidance from the team; developing a basic understanding of how to evaluate credibility, utilization, and risk based on population size and prior predictive behavior of the pool/account; working with team to identify actionable insights and potential data irregularities based on guidance; learning to use models (e.g., rate models and benefit pricing tools) and data analytics tools that support the analysis of business strategy and financial/underwriting risk management; and consistently documenting models, tools, assumptions, and data elements for increasingly complex accounts, as required.
- Completes case and underwriting work by: processing account activities (e.g., running reports, re-quotes, investments, sold rates) for customers and/or book of business under close supervision; in collaboration with internal departments, following established methodologies and protocols, with guidance, to develop rates that appropriately mitigate risk for the organization and optimize sustainable membership growth; assisting with the execution of an account plan that addresses threats and opportunities to ensure attainment of goals in collaboration with Sales and Account Management; gathering and reviewing information to support rate negotiations; and developing knowledge of how Underwriting plays a part in the co-creation of effective internal and external consultative solutions (e.g., case strategy, investment strategy, benefits strategy) with appropriate internal and external partners.
- Contributes to case review and preparation by: conducting account risk assessment using competitive analyses, broker behavior, network cost profiles, legislative and regulatory impacts, revenue requirements, and contributions, with some guidance, especially when working on complex cases; utilizing data and standardized tools to present underwriting and renewal actions and recommendations (e.g., rate drivers, potential risk, glide path, membership impact, projections for future) to clients and/or the organization, with some guidance; developing a basic knowledge of the external business environment and how it applies to the line of business and/or region; and collaborating with Sales and Account Management to develop case/investment strategies and recommendations with appropriate documentation with guidance.
- Supports team engagement with the external market by: under supervision, beginning to interact with external market to ensure understanding of the underwriting approach (e.g., rating methodology, rate drivers, reporting capabilities, and uniqueness from fee for service carriers); helping address data needs and requests reactively and proactively, as they arise; learning to build relationships with customers and channel partners that enable them to understand KPs value; and, with significant guidance, collaborating with account management and sales partners to bring strategic, financial solutions to customers, communicate product capabilities, explain funding arrangements, and negotiate conditions of offering and pricing within the limits of their authority.
- Contributes to goals, initiatives, and program development efforts by: supporting the implementation of innovative new quality and process improvement efforts with detailed instructions; and learning to execute their work in support of department initiatives, program goals, and enterprise goals.
- Ensures compliance of Underwriting work by: learning to ensure accuracy and appropriateness of work from peer reviews of own work and beginning to provide review of work; appropriately obtaining and documenting case approvals and any policy exceptions and investments; and maintaining awareness of and compliance with all relevant policies, guidelines, and procedures, applying them to their own work.
- 5 Days Ago
Associate Underwriter
- Burns & Wilcox
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Vancouver, WA
FULL_TIME
- Responsibilities When someone needs insurance coverage for the unique, the unusual, or the unconventional, they come to Burns & Wilcox. Our Associate Underwriters directly service a book of business u...
- 10 Days Ago
Collateral Underwriter
- onpoint
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Portland, OR
FULL_TIME
- Overview You’re a person who thrives in a collaborative environment where the goal of delivering superior service is at the heart of everything we do. Complexity and creating solutions drive you to do...
- 19 Days Ago
Senior Underwriter
- Kaiser Permanente
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Portland, OR
OTHER
- Job Summary: Evaluates standard and nonstandard data to understand premium, claim, exposure, and population. Independently identifies and escalates actionable data insights/irregularities, researching...
- 25 Days Ago
Sr. Underwriter - Ocean Marine
- corespecialtyinsurance
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Vancouver, WA
FULL_TIME
- - Underwrite an Ocean Marine book of business. Job entails marketing, analyzing risks along with setting terms and conditions of a contract. An underwriter is expected to produce business and make an ...
- 3 Days Ago
Production Underwriter/Broker
- Ck Specialty Insurance Associates
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Vancouver, WA
FULL_TIME
- Production Underwriter/Broker - Remote positionHi, we're Ck Specialty! We are a managing general agent and surplus lines broker that helps independent insurance brokers place hard to insure businesses...
- 5 Days Ago
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Dental Group Underwriter II - Remote in Pacific Time Hours
- USAble Life
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Portland, OR
- When it comes to making a meaningful difference in the lives of our customers and employees, USAble Life is always ready...
- 5/10/2024 12:00:00 AM
Associate Underwriter
- Burns & Wilcox
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Vancouver, WA
- When someone needs insurance coverage for the unique, the unusual, or the unconventional, they come to Burns & Wilcox. O...
- 5/8/2024 12:00:00 AM
Field Property Claim Adjuster - Portland, OR
- The Travelers Indemnity Company
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Lake Oswego, OR
- Who Are We? Taking care of our customers, our communities and each other. That's the Travelers Promise. By honoring this...
- 5/8/2024 12:00:00 AM
Renewal Underwriter
- Brown & Brown, Inc.
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Portland, OR
- Built on meritocracy, our unique company culture rewards self-starters and those who are committed to doing what is best...
- 5/8/2024 12:00:00 AM
Remote Insurance Agent
- Propel Personnel
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Portland, OR
- Job Description Job Description Remote Insurance Agent Job Overview Join one of the nation’s leading Fortune 100 Insuran...
- 5/7/2024 12:00:00 AM
Associate Underwriting Counsel- Remote
- Alliant National Title Insurance Company
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Portland, OR
- Would you like to work in a position that provides exceptional benefits and a flexible working environment, using your a...
- 5/6/2024 12:00:00 AM
Insurance Agent
- Comparion Insurance Agency
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McMinnville, OR
- Pay PhilosophyThe typical starting salary range for this role is determined by a number of factors including skills, exp...
- 5/6/2024 12:00:00 AM
Insurance Agent
- Comparion Insurance Agency
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Salem, OR
- Pay PhilosophyThe typical starting salary range for this role is determined by a number of factors including skills, exp...
- 5/6/2024 12:00:00 AM
About Portland, Oregon
Portland is the largest and most populous city in the U.S. state of Oregon and the seat of Multnomah County. It is a major port in the Willamette Valley region of the Pacific Northwest, at the confluence of the Willamette and Columbia rivers. As of 2017, Portland had an estimated population of 647,805, making it the 26th-largest city in the United States, and the second-most populous in the Pacific Northwest (after Seattle). Approximately 2.4 million people live in the Portland metropolitan statistical area (MSA), making it the 25th most populous MSA in the United States. Its Combined Statist...
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Income Estimation for Health Underwriter jobs
$65,472 to $79,062
Portland, Oregon area prices
were up 3.9% from a year ago
were up 3.9% from a year ago
What does a Health Underwriter do?
Health Underwriter in Oakland, CA
Both the software and the underwriter need to consider not only the likelihood of a claim, but also the likely costs of a particular claim.
February 10, 2020
Health Underwriter in Monterey, CA
The abbreviation for Registered Health Underwriter is RHU.
February 06, 2020
Health Underwriter in New London, CT
If you already have an FMU and are under 70 years old (65 in some states), a medical underwriter can set your new policy to mirror your current one.
January 28, 2020
In health insurance, underwriting is often viewed from one of two perspectives.
January 30, 2020