Population Health Analyst

Position Summary

Boston Medical Center Health System is an integrated health system dedicated to providing exceptional care without exception. The System Analytics team supports the health system in measuring performance, understanding key drivers, and identifying new opportunities.

Essential Duties & Responsibilities

• Create analyses to understand and monitor performance, break down key drivers, and identify new opportunities
• Develop ongoing reports and high-impact dashboards and visuals to effectively communicate performance to operational and clinical leaders and other stakeholders
• Develop gap lists to identify patients requiring intervention
• Develop models to prioritize where to focus efforts and resources by measures and patient segments
• Develop models to understand the role of health disparities in driving patient outcomes
• Interface with stakeholders to engage on data questions, develop new analyses, and present results
• Manage multiple projects and analyses simultaneously while meeting key deadlines and deliverables, and prioritizing time and resources
• Identify and elevate key obstacles for intervention that may jeopardize timelines
• Support other Population Health analytics initiatives as needed, including quality reporting, risk coding, medical expense management, member attribution, risk stratification, readmissions, utilization management, and low-acuity ED

Education

• Bachelor’s degree, preference for concentration in economics, biology, biostatistics, data science, statistics, or computer science
• Masters degree preferred

Experience

• Two to three years of data analytics experience working with large data sets to answer important clinical, operational, or business questions
• Ability to conduct advanced analytics using SAS, SQL, fluent in Excel
• Experience developing dashboards using Tableau
• Ability to meet deadlines, multi-task, problem solve and use appropriate technology to analyze business problems
• Project management skills a plus
• Strong communications skills, both verbal and written
• Experience with care management data preferred
• Experience with quality measures (e.g. HEDIS, CMS measures) preferred
• Prior experience with healthcare data, and knowledge of healthcare claims preferred
• Experience with external grouping methodologies such as DRG, ETG and DxCG/CDPS in analytics preferred

Knowledge, Skills, & Abilities

• Technically proficient: Strong coding skills. Capable of manipulating large data sets, cleaning and normalizing data, generating analysis and working through challenges independently
• Reporting capability: Experience in public reporting that meets auditing requirements
• Strong analytic thinking: Effective at identifying the critical question, capable of navigating the trade-off’s between accuracy / comprehensiveness / complexity vs. speed and simplicity, able to make independent decisions on how to adjust assumptions and analyses. Can distill complex analysis into simple charts to communicate key takeaways
• Curious and creative: Capable of finding the right analytic approach, always asking questions and testing the data and analysis to ensure that we are answering the right key questions
• Outcomes-focused: Ability to manage multiple high priority projects simultaneously and prioritize to meet key projects
• Passionate about our mission: Highest level of integrity and respect for colleagues and for our mission to provide Exceptional Care Without Exception to our patients and members

Compensation Range

$64,500.00 - $90,500.00

Note

This range offers an estimate based on the minimum job qualifications. However, our approach to determining base pay is comprehensive, and a broad range of factors is considered when making an offer. This includes education, experience, skills, and certifications/licensures as they directly relate to position requirements; as well as business/organizational needs, internal equity, and market-competitiveness. In addition, BMCHS offers generous total compensation that includes, but is not limited to, benefits (medical, dental, vision, pharmacy), discretionary annual bonuses and merit increases, Flexible Spending Accounts, 403(b) savings matches, paid time off, career advancement opportunities, and resources to support employee and family well-being. NOTE: This range is based on Boston-area data, and is subject to modification based on geographic location.