Healthcare Data Analyst

About the role

This position serves as a consultant to gain an understanding of the business and programs, and to develop and deliver reports that 'tell a story' about health plan cost and utilization trends, clinical variation, and data mining opportunities.

Responsibilities

• Develops ongoing knowledge of Health Plan tools and data sources/structures to accurately pull data.
• Independently seeks to understand the business/programs and partners at the Health Plan to better understand the business requirements (the ‘why’) of the request and applies both knowledge of the business and analytic skills to proactively fulfill request.
• Prepares, develops, analyzes, shapes and delivers reports in an accurate and timely manner that ‘tell a story’ including but not limited to health plan cost and utilization trends, monitoring effectiveness of care management programs, clinical variation and data mining to find potential opportunities to better control costs and utilization, as needed.
• Compiles complex data sets and simplifies/tailors according to audience delivering analyses to.
• Evaluates and processes raw data for user friendly and provides actionable insight (visual and otherwise) to end users.
• Collaborates with team members, leveraging skill sets across the team and aiding in growth and development as needed.
• Proactively problem solves, investigates and tactfully brings forward concerns to management and/or business partners with relation to data pulls and analyses, as appropriate.
• Utilizes Health Plan defined populations and appropriate analytic tools to pull data set to identify membership (at the highest level) for downstream data analysis of claims, care management programs, etc.
• Promotes collaborative relationship across functional teams and other analytic teams across the organization.
• Manages, organizes and prioritizes tasks for multiple projects with competing deadlines to successful completion.
• Maintains high regard for member privacy in accordance with the corporate privacy policies and procedures.
• Performs other functions as assigned by management.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Mathematics, Statistics, Medical Informatics, Economics, or related field with a minimum of 0 - 2 years’ experience in data or information analysis and reporting.
• Knowledge and applicable use of all tools available to develop analyses, extract information and using the most appropriate tool for the given report is required (i.e. SAS, Cognos, Excel, Access, SPSS, DataFlux, AQT, Winscp, puTTy etc.).
• Ability to approach data analysis with different data mining techniques, statistical techniques (when applicable).
• Proficient in using SAS and/or Cognos and Microsoft tools.
• Working knowledge of Microsoft Office Suite.
• Knowledge of basic statistical concepts and have strong analytical and problem-solving skills with attention to detail.
• Demonstrates the ability to take complex data sets and simplify for all audiences to understand through both visual interpretation and highlighting data points of significant impact or potential areas for impactful program development (quality of care and controlling costs).
• Willingness to develop relationships with partners within the health plan to both understand data requests and help to shape the request for more influential impact.
• Demonstrated analytic abilities combined with capabilities for completing projects with minimum degree of supervision.
• Knowledge of the health care system and experience working with physician or hospital claims/group data preferred.

Qualifications

• Minimum Qualifications: Bachelor’s degree in Mathematics, Statistics, Medical Informatics, Economics, or related field with a minimum of 0 - 2 years’ experience in data or information analysis and reporting.
• Knowledge and applicable use of all tools available to develop analyses, extract information and using the most appropriate tool for the given report is required (i.e. SAS, Cognos, Excel, Access, SPSS, DataFlux, AQT, Winscp, puTTy etc.).
• Ability to approach data analysis with different data mining techniques, statistical techniques (when applicable).
• Proficient in using SAS and/or Cognos and Microsoft tools.
• Working knowledge of Microsoft Office Suite.
• Knowledge of basic statistical concepts and have strong analytical and problem-solving skills with attention to detail.
• Demonstrates the ability to take complex data sets and simplify for all audiences to understand through both visual interpretation and highlighting data points of significant impact or potential areas for impactful program development (quality of care and controlling costs).
• Willingness to develop relationships with partners within the health plan to both understand data requests and help to shape the request for more influential impact.
• Demonstrated analytic abilities combined with capabilities for completing projects with minimum degree of supervision.
• Knowledge of the health care system and experience working with physician or hospital claims/group data preferred.

Skills

• Knowledge of all tools available to develop analyses, extract information and using the most appropriate tool for the given report is required (i.e. SAS, Cognos, Excel, Access, SPSS, DataFlux, AQT, Winscp, puTTy etc.).
• Ability to approach data analysis with different data mining techniques, statistical techniques (when applicable).
• Proficient in using SAS and/or Cognos and Microsoft tools.
• Working knowledge of Microsoft Office Suite.
• Knowledge of basic statistical concepts and have strong analytical and problem-solving skills with attention to detail.
• Demonstrates the ability to take complex data sets and simplify for all audiences to understand through both visual interpretation and highlighting data points of significant impact or potential areas for impactful program development (quality of care and controlling costs).
• Willingness to develop relationships with partners within the health plan to both understand data requests and help to shape the request for more influential impact.
• Demonstrated analytic abilities combined with capabilities for completing projects with minimum degree of supervision.
• Knowledge of the health care system and experience working with physician or hospital claims/group data preferred.

Benefits

Not specified.

Pay

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Schedule

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