Senior Healthcare Analyst

About the role

This is an excellent opportunity for an outstanding data analyst to join a Series C digital health company. You will work closely with clinicians, program implementation, operation experts, informaticists, data scientists, and actuaries to support data-driven clinical programs. These programs are essential in improving:

• Payor/provider/patient collaboration
• Quality of care and patient outcomes
• Healthcare utilization and spending efficiency

The work will be fast-paced and project-based, with evolving needs requiring adaptability, curiosity, and grace under pressure.

Responsibilities

• Cultivate a deep understanding of Cohere’s clinical content, UM products, and clinical programs and use analytics to produce insights to drive program effectiveness and value for internal business partners and clients
• Work with administrative and clinical health data to build and maintain analytical and reporting solutions to support strategy and program decision making
• Identify optimization opportunities using statistical analysis, data mining, and predictive modeling methods to improve automation while enhancing decision quality and patient outcomes
• Collaborate with clinical, account management, data science, and engineering partners to refine Cohere’s product features and client support
• Track cost, utilization, and industry trends to inform stakeholders of product performance and provide data-driven insights around opportunities to optimize clinical value for patients, providers, and payers

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience working in a big-data analytics role
• Bachelor’s degree in a healthcare or quantitative discipline such as Epidemiology, Economics, Statistics, Data Science, Health Informatics, Public Health, or related field (Master’s degree preferred)
• Ability to use statistical analysis and modeling tools (such as SQL and Python) to extract insights from complex healthcare data, interpret trends, and derive actionable recommendations (experience with Athena and AWS Sagemaker preferred)
• Understanding of healthcare systems, medical terminologies, clinical workflows, and experience with large datasets including medical claims, pharmacy, and eligibility data
• Experience with clinical and utilization management programs for specialty care (e.g., musculoskeletal, cardiology, imaging, oncology, pharmacy) preferred
• Experience developing dashboards and self-service business intelligence tools such as Tableau
• Experience interfacing with internal and external business stakeholders on the development and readout of client and program-specific KPIs
• Experience owning complex projects, coordinating with multidisciplinary teams, setting goals, and meeting deadlines for multiple ongoing projects
• Strong problem-solving and critical-thinking skills to identify issues within healthcare data, devise solutions, and develop scalable solutions
• Strong verbal and written communication skills

Benefits

• Fully remote opportunity with about 5% travel
• Medical, dental, vision, life, and disability insurance, plus Employee Assistance Program
• 401K retirement plan with company match; flexible spending and health savings account
• Flexible Time Off + Company Holidays
• Up to 14 weeks of paid parental leave
• Pet insurance

Pay

The salary range for this position is $110,000 to $120,000 annually as part of a total benefits package which includes health insurance, 401k, and bonus. Individual pay decisions are based on qualifications, experience level, skillset, and internal alignment.

About the company

Cohere Health’s clinical intelligence platform delivers AI-powered solutions that streamline access to quality care by improving payer-provider collaboration, cost containment, and healthcare economics. Cohere Health works with over 660,000 providers and handles over 12 million prior authorization requests annually. Its responsible AI auto-approves up to 90% of requests for millions of health plan members.

With the acquisition of ZignaAI, we’ve further enhanced our platform by launching our Payment Integrity Suite, anchored by Cohere Validate™, an AI-driven clinical and coding validation solution that operates in near real-time. By unifying pre-service authorization data with post-service claims validation, we’re creating a transparent healthcare ecosystem that reduces waste, improves payer-provider collaboration and patient outcomes, and ensures providers are paid promptly and accurately.

Cohere Health’s innovations continue to receive industry-wide recognition. We’ve been named to the 2025 Inc. 5000 list, in the Gartner® Hype Cycle™ for U.S. Healthcare Payers (2022-2025), and ranked as a Top 5 LinkedIn™ Startup for 2023 & 2024. Backed by leading investors such as Deerfield Management, Define Ventures, Flare Capital Partners, Longitude Capital, and Polaris Partners, Cohere Health drives more transparent, streamlined healthcare processes, helping patients receive faster, more appropriate care and higher-quality outcomes.

The team at Cohere, known as Coherenauts, values empathy, candor, kindness, and care. We believe diverse, inclusive teams make the most impactful work and are deeply invested in ensuring a supportive, growth-oriented environment for everyone.