Data Analyst, Population Health Management

Reporting to the SVP for Population and Community Health, this position works collaboratively across teams to develop and maintain data collection, measurement tools, and databases to support data analysis for population health, community health, and managed care initiatives. As part of the ongoing work of One Brooklyn Health to transform healthcare delivery in Central Brooklyn, the Population and Community Health team aims to eliminate racial and gender health inequities rooted in historical and contemporary injustices by improving health outcomes, addressing social drivers, and using data for advocacy.

Responsibilities

• Design and build population health data set processes for modeling, production, or mining.
• Perform and interpret population health data studies to explore new data sources or new uses for existing ones.
• Develop reports, dashboards, scorecards, and other analytics results to support population health and strategic goals.
• Analyze, interpret, and generate reports on performance related to overall outcomes, utilization, risk-adjusted total costs of care, population health, and care coordination.
• Support the analysis of data from multiple sources, primarily claims files associated with value-based contracts.
• Provide insights for informed decision-making and planning by identifying trends and patterns within complex data sets, visualizing data, and deploying it to inform stakeholders.
• Develop innovative recommendations to achieve successes in population health management initiatives and impact quality and efficiency in the delivery model, resulting in positive clinical and financial outcomes.
• Serve as a subject matter expert to support population health needs regarding claims data, value-based contracts, and quality data.
• Develop and maintain quality control standards and data reconciliation techniques for internal and external reporting.
• Create and maintain documentation relating to data management, including training guides, report specifications, and data dictionaries.
• Adhere to reporting deadlines for assigned reports.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree (BA/BS) in computer science, statistics, public health, or a related field (required).
• Master’s Degree in Business, Health Administration, Finance, or a related field (preferred).
• Minimum of five (5) to ten (10) years of experience working with data visualization software such as Tableau, Power BI, or Qlik (preferred).
• Minimum of three (3) to five (5) years of experience working with statistical programming languages such as R or Python (preferred).
• Knowledge of CMS, TJC, and other applicable regulations.
• Fluency in MS Office, including MS Excel and MS PowerPoint.
• Experience with EPIC Reporting.

Skills

• Strong conceptual, analytical, and quantitative skills.
• Strong data collection, manipulation, and analysis skills.
• An informed perspective on embedding and applying a racial and gender justice lens in decision-making, planning, and implementation.
• Familiarity with SQL programming language concepts.
• Experience with health insurance claims structure and analytics, including GPRO/HEDIS Quality measures, risk adjustment methodologies, efficiency of care, and utilization metrics.
• Experience with large data sets, clinical quality measures, and claims analysis.
• Experience with data sets typically found in a health plan environment, including claims data, care management and care planning data, and provider network management data.
• Intermediate to advanced knowledge of Microsoft Office Suite, including Excel, Word, and PowerPoint.
• Advanced skills in Excel and ease with data management concepts (e.g., MS Access, SQL).
• Skill in oral and written communication and time management, with the ability to effectively present to and facilitate groups.
• Experience presenting technical data and information to non-technical users.
• Working knowledge of finance, accounting, financial models, healthcare data, market, and competitive analysis techniques.
• Interest in and active pursuit of opportunities to learn and grow, with the ability to handle multiple demands, shifting priorities, crises, and rapid change.

Pay

The salary range and/or hourly rate listed is a good faith determination of potential base compensation that may be offered to a successful applicant for this position at the time of this job advertisement and may be modified in the future. When determining a team member’s base salary and/or rate, several factors may be considered as applicable (e.g., site, specialty, service line, years of relevant experience, education, credentials, negotiated contracts, budget, and internal equity).