Consultant, Center for Healthcare Economics and Policy

FTI Consulting•Washington, DC

22d•$81,500 - $111,500•Hybrid

About The Position

FTI Consulting is a leading global expert firm for organizations facing crisis and transformation. The Center for Healthcare Economics and Policy (“Center”) is a separate business unit of the Economics Practice within FTI Consulting, Inc. The Center applies cutting-edge economics and quantitative methods to assist clients in developing and implementing market-based solutions across the spectrum of healthcare activity. Our analyses utilize economic modeling and simulation applied to real-world data in order to predict future demand for services to provide organizations insights into how to maintain quality, improve health outcomes and reduce costs, as well as to properly deploy constrained resources. Our advanced capabilities and extensive data sets can address effects of major policy, regulatory, or significant and disruptive changes. We provide predictive modeling capable of evaluating complex “what-if” scenarios for both public and private stakeholders. Our staff includes academically trained economists with extensive industry expertise and decades of policy and applied experience in the public and private sector. The Center’s analytic domains include mergers and acquisitions, market insight, value-based arrangements, cross-stakeholder and community-level analysis including economic impact of poor health, population health, value assessment, quantification of patient-centered preferences, health economics and outcomes research, and digital health. Clients come from across the health care spectrum from providers, life sciences companies, payers, governments and non-government organizations (NGOs). We collaborate with colleagues across FTI Consulting, including strategic communications, healthcare practitioners and financial specialists. This position involves working in teams to provide advanced analytics to a multitude of clients on both healthcare and non-healthcare matters including employers, healthcare systems, managed care organizations, life sciences firms and government agencies. This is an opportunity to work in a dynamic environment, contributing to projects that make an impact and help shape the healthcare environment.

Requirements

A Bachelor’s degree in the areas of Economics, Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science or other field relevant to data analysis
1+ years of post-graduate professional work experience
Experience with Excel and at least one statistical programming packages such as Stata, Visual Basic, SAS, R, MATLAB, or Mathematica
This role requires travel to clients and FTI office(s)

Nice To Haves

2+ years of experience in healthcare industry practices conducting analysis and conveying conclusions to an audience in written form or presentations
Proficiency in Stata
Skills and experience in data visualization
Ability to learn and thrive in a project-driven environment with time-sensitive deliverables
Knowledge of and interest in healthcare industry practices and policy

Responsibilities

Analyzing data quality and performing data analysis using statistical packages such as Stata, R, Python and SAS
Building health economic models using state-of-the-science approaches
Conducting research into industry-specific matters
Producing written summaries of both qualitative and quantitative data
Preparing memos, technical reports and PowerPoint decks detailing the operational components of projects including data sources, key data elements, and statistical programs/techniques used in preparing the dataset or conducting the analysis
Preparing work for submission to academic peer-reviewed journals
Auditing their own as well as colleagues’ work to ensure quality