Healthcare Administration Intern

Healthcare Administration Intern (3-Month Internship)
Location: In-person, Boulder, CO
Duration: 3 months
Compensation: Unpaid (with potential for a full-time paid position after 3 months)
Time Commitment: Part-time (flexible, approximately 15–25 hours/week)

Antelope Recovery, a fast-growing digital health startup focused on youth mental health and substance use care, is offering a hands-on internship for someone eager to understand the inner workings of our healthcare system. This internship is designed to provide a crash course in healthcare administration, with a specific focus on insurance operations, billing, and care access.

What you’ll learn and do:

Understand the fundamentals of how insurance works: commercial, Medicaid, and managed care organizations

Learn how claims are submitted, processed, and reimbursed

Get trained on a revenue cycle management (RCM) platform and understand how billing systems function in behavioral healthcare

Dive into electronic health records (EHR) and understand how clinical documentation connects to claims and compliance

Learn about denials management, prior authorizations, and appeals processes

Track claims through full lifecycle and analyze trends in payment or denial

Work directly with the COO to gain mentorship and insight into systems-level change

Help document workflows, optimize internal systems, and support innovation in a traditionally outdated industry

Why this role:
This is not a theoretical internship. You’ll gain immediate exposure to how the healthcare economy functions behind the scenes—and why it’s often so dysfunctional. If you want to build a career in healthcare innovation, operations, policy, or digital health, understanding these systems is essential.

Our team is passionate about transforming access to care—and we know we can’t fix the system until we understand it. You’ll come away with valuable skills, a deep understanding of the revenue side of healthcare, and the potential to grow into a paid full-time role helping us scale care across the country.