Population Health Senior Analyst

BMC Software

2d•$78,000 - $113,000•Remote

About The Position

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.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree, preference for concentration in economics, math, statistics, health informatics or data science
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.
Strong communications skills, both verbal and written.

Nice To Haves

Master’s degree in a related field, preferred
Project management skills a plus.
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.

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