Healthcare Data Analyst

About the role

This position serves as a consultant to the business/departmental leads and staff to gain an understanding of the business, focusing on areas such as Finance, Marketing and Sales, Health Care Network Management (HCNM), Operational Excellence (OpEx), and Safety Net (SN) program owners.

Responsibilities

• Consults with business/departmental leads and staff to understand the business and gather requirements.
• Extracts, analyzes, shapes, and develops reports in ways that are understandable to various audiences.
• Makes recommendations based on data trends and insights.
• Collaborates with other analytics units to work on predictive modeling opportunities and uses tools/data developed by other analytic units for deeper analysis.

Requirements

• Develops ongoing knowledge of Health Plan tools and data sources/structures to accurately pull data.
• Independently seeks to understand the business and partners with the Health Plan to better understand the business requirements.
• Prepares, develops, analyzes, shapes, and delivers reports in an accurate and timely manner.
• Compiles complex data sets and simplifies them for tailored delivery to end users.
• Evaluates and processes raw data for user-friendly and actionable insights.
• Collaborates with team members, aiding in their growth and development.
• Proactively problem solves and brings forward concerns to management and/or business partners.
• Identifies and manages membership for downstream data analysis of claims, care management programs, etc.
• Builds collaborative relationships across functional teams and other analytic teams.
• Manages, organizes, and prioritizes tasks for multiple projects with competing deadlines.

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 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 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).

Benefits

• Regular and reliable attendance is expected and required.

Pay

Commensurate with experience.

Schedule

TBD.