Sr. Healthcare Informatics Analyst

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Job Title: Senior Healthcare Informatics Analyst
Location: Remote Approved States Only
Contract Length: 6 Months
Job Ref #: JOB-248050

Position Overview

The Senior Healthcare Informatics Analyst independently provides analytics focused on understanding and improving how healthcare is valued, utilized, and provided.

This position develops analytic attributes related to patient-level health utilization and outcomes, provider performance measures, risk-adjusted revenue optimization, medical cost management, and patient/provider engagement.

In collaboration with other business areas and IT, this position leads problem solving, solution development, strategic planning, and decision making.

Required Qualifications

Education

• Bachelor s degree in Healthcare Administration, Statistics, Economics, Analytics, or Computer Science
• Four years of related experience may be used in lieu of a Bachelor s degree

Experience

• 4 years of healthcare, analytics, IT, or management consulting experience
• A Master s degree may substitute for two years of the four years of required experience
• A Doctorate degree may substitute for an additional two years of related work experience
• Healthcare experience is required
• Experience building predictive models
• Basic knowledge of the United States healthcare delivery system in a payer or provider setting
• Strong knowledge of common query, analytic, and visualization tools such as SQL, SAS, R, Python, Tableau, etc.

Skills and Abilities

• Strong critical thinking, analytical, and problem-solving skills
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Strong interpersonal skills
• Ability to analyze, consolidate, and communicate complex technical topics to all levels of internal staff and external vendors

Preferred Qualifications

• Master s degree in a related field
• Medicare Advantage experience
• Trend analysis experience
• Strong knowledge of outcome research design and controlled study design
• Advanced knowledge of SAS, including Enterprise Miner
• Strong understanding of provider payment methodologies, population health management, and risk adjustments
• Strong understanding of clinical groupers, including DRG, APC, ETG, MEG, DxCg, and HCC
• Strong understanding of quality metrics, including HEDIS and AHRQ
• Knowledge of commercial risk optimization and MA risk optimization

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the selection of evaluation, analytics, and BI methodologies and communicate recommendations to facilitate problem solving, solution development, decision making, and strategic planning
• Leverage clinical reporting software and models, Enterprise Data Warehouse (EDW) data sources, and non-EDW data sources
• Facilitate business development, document business problems, and develop analytic solutions, including predictive models, BI solutions, and analytic attributes
• Serve as an analytics advisor to collaborating departments on corporate and cross-functional projects, reports, and activities
• Translate business rules into analytical models and serve as a liaison among healthcare analytics, Enterprise Information Management (EIM), IT, and business areas
• Perform peer data quality reviews and validate data and processes to ensure accuracy, completeness, and consistency
• Perform descriptive and analytic studies using advanced analytical and statistical techniques
• Perform other job-related duties as assigned within the scope of responsibilities

Remote Work Requirements

This is a remote position. Candidates must have their own equipment or equipment must be supplied by the supplier.

Candidates must reside in one of the following approved states:

Alabama, Arkansas, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Mississippi, Missouri, New Hampshire, Nebraska, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, or West Virginia.

Pennsylvania: Candidates are eligible except those residing in Allegheny, Bucks, Chester, Delaware, Montgomery, or Philadelphia counties.