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Payer Senior Consultant

Huron Consulting · Chicago, IL · Part time

Posted Oct 1, 2026 · We last checked this listing on Oct 5, 2026

Likely interview questions for this role

Written from this job description, not a generic list. Each one notes what the interviewer is really checking.

About your past

Tell me about your experience with payer-side healthcare systems and the clients you have supported.

What they are checking: Whether their background fits a health plan technology role rather than only provider-side work.

Tell me about a time you delivered under a tight regulatory deadline.

What they are checking: Whether they can meet compliance dates, which are common and fixed in health plan work.

How do you mentor a newer consultant on a payer engagement?

What they are checking: Whether they support junior staff, which senior consultants are expected to do.

How would you explain a claims system problem to a health plan executive in a few minutes?

What they are checking: Whether they can summarize technical issues in terms of member, provider and financial impact.

What would you do

A health plan sees a spike in claims pending for manual review. How would you find the cause?

What they are checking: Whether they can trace configuration, provider data or edit issues rather than adding staff to work the backlog.

The client's IT and business teams disagree on how to fix a defect. How do you help them move forward?

What they are checking: Whether they can bring business and technical sides to a decision without taking sides blindly.

About the work

Walk me through how a claim is processed in a payer core administration system from intake to payment.

What they are checking: Whether they understand eligibility, benefits, pricing and adjudication well enough to troubleshoot problems.

How do you gather requirements from a health plan's operations team for a benefit configuration change?

What they are checking: Whether they can turn benefit language into accurate, testable system rules.

How do HIPAA EDI transactions like the 837, 835 and 834 fit into a payer's operations?

What they are checking: Whether they know the standard data flows that most payer integration work depends on.

How do you test a provider contract configuration to make sure claims price correctly?

What they are checking: Whether they test pricing scenarios carefully, since mistakes mean overpaying or underpaying providers.

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The full job description

As published by Huron Consulting.

Huron helps its clients drive growth, enhance performance and sustain leadership in the markets they serve. We help healthcare organizations build innovation capabilities and accelerate key growth initiatives, enabling organizations to own the future, instead of being disrupted by it. Together, we empower clients to create sustainable growth, optimize internal processes and deliver better consumer outcomes. Health systems, hospitals and medical clinics are under immense pressure to improve clinical outcomes and reduce the cost of providing patient care. Investing in new partnerships, clinical services and technology is not enough to create meaningful and substantive change. To succeed long-term, healthcare organizations must empower leaders, clinicians, employees, affiliates and communities to build cultures that foster innovation to achieve the best outcomes for patients. Joining the Huron team means you’ll help our clients evolve and adapt to the rapidly changing healthcare environment and optimize existing business operations, improve clinical outcomes, create a more consumer-centric healthcare experience, and drive physician, patient and employee engagement across the enterprise. Join our team as the expert you are now and create your future. Huron healthcare technology client’s needs are unique and so we are constantly on the look-out for outstanding technicians with different types and levels of expertise and knowledge who can uncover, untangle, and tackle the biggest challenges facing healthcare. In this fast-paced environment, you will thrive with minimal oversight, flexibility, adaptability, and resilience. Your ability to listen and respond persuasively and masterfully to clients, especially in difficult situations, will help lead clients through implementation, optimization, and improvement of their Epic systems and beyond. Our Senior Consultants partner with our clients to analyze and identify root cause of their most pressing issues and then develop and implement the tools and training to make them successful. So, if you’re passionate about making a positive tangible impact in healthcare, we’re waiting to hear from you! - Full life cycle project implementation experience in Cadence, Prelude, Grand Central, Referrals, Care Everywhere, HIM, Welcome, or Kiosk. Other revenue cycle and/or clinical application experience and certified desired. - Must have current Epic certification in at least one of the above mentioned applications. - Advanced reporting experience desired (Dashboard and Reporting Workbench). - Ability and interest to travel weekly (typically Monday through Thursday), although our model is designed to save money for our clients by delivering high-level services remotely as much as possible. - Previous consulting experience highly desired. Position Level Consultant Country United States of America