Population Health Senior Analyst

POSITION SUMMARY:

Boston Medical Center Health System is an integrated health system devoted to the proposition that every person regardless of their social or economic circumstances deserves the best health care. Our mission is to provide Exceptional Care, Without Exception and our vision is to make Boston the healthiest urban population in the world.

Our health system includes:

• Boston Medical Center, a 498-bed academic medical center and the leading safety-net hospital in New England
• WellSense Health Plan, a nonprofit health insurance company serving more than 740,000 members across Massachusetts and New Hampshire through Medicare, Individual and Family, and Medicaid plans.
• Boston HealthNet, a network of 15 community health centers throughout Boston
• Boston Accountable Care Organization, a partnership between BMC and local CHC's created to coordinate delivery of care across our health network
• Clearway Health, partners with hospitals and health systems to build or strengthen their own specialty pharmacy program, improve access to care, and provide personalized support to vulnerable patients, families, providers, and care managers to eliminate barriers and ensure medications are received on time.

Essential to the success of our health system is our ability to work with data to understand who our patients are, identify who needs special intervention, and target clinical programs that will drive better health outcomes for our patients.

The System Analytics team sits at the center of our strategy, supporting the health system to accurately measure performance, understand key drivers, and identify new opportunities. This will include collaborating with clinical and operational leaders to design the right metrics and analyses, as well as developing insights that will inform critical decisions by senior leadership. Key projects may include: Identifying high risk patients who would benefit from care management intervention; producing reports to track performance against priority HEDIS measures; and predicting member medication adherence.

The Population Health Senior Analyst will play a key role on this team, leading analyses that will guide strategy, investigate performance drivers, and shape the future of our health system. This role is ideal for analysts who have built a strong technical and analytic foundation, and who are looking to grow capabilities in strategic thinking, project management, stakeholder management, and presenting.

Position: Population Health Senior Analyst

Department: System Analytics

Schedule: Full Time

LOCATION

Remote work arrangements within the U.S. will be considered for this position.

ESSENTIAL RESPONSIBILITIES / DUTIES:

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Work independently with business leaders to scope and conduct analyses that help the organization understand and monitor performance, break down key drivers, and identify new opportunities
• Lead analytic projects such as vendor partnerships, development of predictive analytic tools, or data validation workstreams
• Act as technical and analytic expert for the System Analytics team
• Mentor, train, and onboard new analysts to the team
• Create reports and dashboards that effectively communicate performance to operational and clinical leaders and stakeholders
• Translate complex analysis into simple visualizations that can communicate key takeaways to leaders and stakeholders
• Understand health system data sources and support data architecture team to ensure that data is clean, normalized, and accurate
• Establish credibility and trust in data integrity and accuracy across internal and external stakeholders
• Present analyses to senior leaders and other stakeholders
• Collaborate across the health system to ensure that assumptions and methodologies are consistent
• 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

JOB REQUIREMENTS

EDUCATION:

• Bachelor's degree, preference for concentration in economics, math, statistics, health informatics or data science
• Master's degree in a related field, preferred

EXPERIENCE:

• 5+ years of data analytics experience with progressive responsibility, working with large data sets to answer important clinical, operational, or business questions
• 3+ years of experience working with medical claims data in managed healthcare or insurance operations, with preference for analysis on Medicare or Medicaid risk products
• 3+ years of experience developing dashboards using Tableau
• Ability to conduct advanced analytics using SAS and SQL; fluent in Excel
• 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 quality measures (e.g. HEDIS, CMS measures) preferred.
• Experience with external grouping methodologies such as DRG, ETG and DxCG/CDPS in analytics preferred.

KNOWLEDGE/SKILLS:

The Ideal Candidate:

We are seeking a top performing senior analyst to help us build a high performing analytic team that will find answers to difficult questions across large and complex data sets.

The ideal candidate will have the following skills:

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  Technically proficient: Capable of manipulating large data sets, cleaning and normalizing data, generating analysis and working through challenges independently
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  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
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  Experienced in working with medical claims: Possesses a baseline understanding of the structure of raw claims billing data, and how to extract relevant clinical insights
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  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
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  Outcomes-focused: Ability to manage multiple high priority projects simultaneously and prioritize to meet key projects
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  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

Remote work arrangements within the U.S. will be considered for this position.

Equal Opportunity Employer/Disabled/Veterans