Senior Health Data Analyst I

Responsibilities

• Works collaboratively with business partners, other analysts, and IT to gather and integrate data from disparate sources.
• Responds to ad hoc data requests from business units and leadership.
• Affords assistance in design and development of data collection strategies, aggregation, analysis, and reporting to ensure data integrity and enhance information value.
• Participates in design and interpretation of data analyses; provides recommendations for improvement of data quality and reporting.
• Helps build, manage, and/or enhance predictive models.
• Affords assessments of reporting and automation requirements and develops appropriate solutions.
• Maintains in-depth knowledge of health plan operations, including claims processing, utilization management, quality improvement activities and pay for performance programs.
• Critically analyzes data, draws conclusions and effectively articulates results.
• Presents data and conclusions to non-technical audience; uses data visualizations and summaries to highlight key findings.
• Creates and maintains thorough and consistent documentation of programs used to create reports.
• Manages and prioritizes workload while meeting deliverables and expectations.
• Works autonomously and collaboratively with report requestors, providing guidance to define report requirements and validate results.
• Works collaboratively across departments to understand and meet the organization’s analytic needs.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree with concentration in health informatics, health administration, public health, computing, epidemiology, statistics or related field, Master’s degree preferred.
• Minimum four (4) years of experience in data analysis and reporting.
• Excellent knowledge of data collection, analysis, statistics and data presentation with experience in data mining techniques and procedures.
• Experience using statistical packages for analyzing large data sets, SAS and/or SQL a plus.
• Experience working with administrative data, ideally health care data (Medicaid data a plus).
• Understanding of health data formats including claims, lab and pharmacy.
• Knowledge of clinical coding systems (e.g., ICD9, ICD10, CPT).

Special Skills, Licenses and Certifications

• Proficiency in inferential and predictive statistical analysis.
• MS Office, Excel, SQL, SAS, Tableau.
• Ability to present complex information in an understandable and compelling manner.

Performance Based Competencies

• Ability to quickly acquire in-depth knowledge of various systems related to claims processing, membership, provider, and benefits at Partnership.
• Strong written and oral communication skills with ability to interpret and understand technical requirements.
• Excellent analytical skills to troubleshoot and resolve data issues.
• Must be highly organized and proficient at multi-tasking.
• Willingness and ability to provide gracious assistance to users, providers, and other constituents of Partnership.

Hiring Range

$106,667.05 - $138,667.16