Senior Healthcare Analyst

Title: Sr. Healthcare Analyst

Location: Bethesda, MD

Workplace: remote

Category: Actuarial Team

Job Description:

The Senior Healthcare Analyst will support financial evaluation related analytics and research (focus on the Commercial and Medicaid lines of business). 

- This role will also develop and complete analysis to support Aledade's forecast process and risk management initiatives. 

- This role will work under the direction of actuaries and work with healthcare data including claims, premium, membership, and risk score, etc. 

- This role will work with data from various sources including health plans, public data sources, and consulting firms to generate insight for business strategy development. 

- This role will become a data expert for the financial structure and methodology of value based contracting and will work cross-functionally with business partners and contribute to fact based business decision making. 

 

 

Primary Duties

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  Design and execute analysis:

   

   Assist in translating and communicating analysis results:

   

  • Understand the problem space:
  • Work with teams across Aledade to understand and clarify questions and issues for data analysis.
  • a. Under the direction of actuaries, design the analysis to answer key business questions.
  • b. Develop program code to integrate, evaluate, and analyze diverse data sources.
  • c. Perform data analysis and statistical modeling under the direction of actuaries to generate actionable insights and solutions.
  • a. Work across teams at Aledade to synthesize results, identify implications of analysis results and translate findings into action.  
  • b. Work closely with the Performance Team and Finance Team to generate  and bring analytic results to leadership.

Minimum Qualifications

• • Bachelor's degree with 4-6 years of relevant experience
  • Experience with SQL for data manipulation and R, Python, or Stata for statistical programming
  • Experience with health care data sources such as medical or pharmacy claims, membership, and risk scores 

Preferred KSA’s

• • Bachelor’s degree in statistics, mathematics or computer science
  • Excellent quantitative analysis abilities, grounded in econometrics, health services research, epidemiology, statistics, or related field
  • Demonstrated ability to conduct nuanced analyses to produce accurate and unbiased results and tell the story of those results in data visualizations, presentations, and reports.
  • Attention to detail, quality assurance, documentation, and building repeatable processes
  • Ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment and manage competing deadlines and priorities.
  • Values people with differing backgrounds and perspectives; supports effective interpersonal and intercultural engagement
  • Well-versed in Equity and Inclusion language, concepts, and principles (i.e. health disparities, social drivers of health, implicit bias) and able to communicate and explain them to larger audiences
  • Committed to serving teammates and patients with empathy and respect
  • Ability to manage research projects through the entire life cycle, from design through implementation, documentation, and presentation of findings
  • Thinks beyond their immediate team and contributes to making Aledade holistically better (active engagement in employee resource groups, DE&I initiatives, book/journal clubs, facilitating training, leading roundtables, etc.)
  • Knowledge of standard methods for measuring health care utilization, spending, quality, and related outcomes
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Physical Requirements

• • Sitting for prolonged periods of time. Extensive use of computers and keyboard. Occasional walking and lifting may be required.

Who We Are:

Aledade, a public benefit corporation, exists to empower the most transformational part of our health care landscape - independent primary care. We were founded in 2014, and since then, we've become the largest network of independent primary care in the country - helping practices, health centers and clinics deliver better care to their patients and thrive in value-based care. Additionally, by creating value-based contracts across a wide variety of health plans, we aim to flip the script on the traditional fee-for-service model. Our work strengthens continuity of care, aligns incentives and ensures primary care physicians are paid for what they do best - keeping patients healthy. If you want to help create a health care system that is good for patients, good for practices and good for society - and if you're eager to join a collaborative, inclusive and remote-first culture - you've come to the right place.

 

What Does This Mean for You?

At Aledade, you will be part of a creative culture that is driven by a passion for tackling complex issues with respect, open-mindedness and a desire to learn. You will collaborate with team members who bring a wide range of experiences, interests, backgrounds, beliefs and achievements to their work - and who are all united by a shared passion for public health and a commitment to the Aledade mission.

 

In addition to time off to support work-life balance and enjoyment, we offer the following comprehensive benefits package designed for the overall well-being of our team members:

 

Flexible work schedules and the ability to work remotely are available for many roles

Health, dental and vision insurance paid up to 80% for employees, dependents and domestic partners

Robust time-off plan (21 days of PTO in your first year)

Two paid volunteer days and 11 paid holidays

12 weeks paid parental leave for all new parents

Six weeks paid sabbatical after six years of service

Educational Assistant Program and Clinical Employee Reimbursement Program

401(k) with up to 4% match

Stock options

And much more!

 

At Aledade, we don’t just accept differences, we celebrate them! We strive to attract, develop and retain highly qualified individuals representing the diverse communities where we live and work. Aledade is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. Employment policies and decisions at Aledade are based on merit, qualifications, performance and business needs. All qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, race, color, national origin, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth or medical conditions related to pregnancy or childbirth), gender identity or expression, religion, physical or mental disability, medical condition, legally protected genetic information, marital status, veteran status, or sexual orientation.

 

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