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Description Strength Through Diversity Ground breaking science. Advancing medicine. Healing made personal. Job Title: Physicist Background Mount Sinai is one of the largest U.S. health systems with a strong reputation for quality of care (top 20 ranked US academic medical center) and innovative research/education (top 20 ranked US medical school, >$400M annually in NIH-funded research). This reputation is important but it’s not enough. At Mount Sinai, we have a responsibility to make healthcare better, optimizing its value for patients, purchasers, and communities. The health care industry has a number of problems; there is an affordability crisis as federal and state governments are unable to keep Medicare & Medicaid solvent, employers are stretched to pay for health benefits for their employees, and those employees struggle to afford increasing paycheck deductions and deductibles. In addition, the industry has historically set a low bar for customer service, earning some of the lowest satisfaction scores of any industry, eroding trust from stakeholders. In ...