Quantitative Consultant - Remote
About The Position
OptumServe Consulting (OSC)/The Lewin Group (Lewin), a premier national healthcare and human services consulting and policy analysis firm, brings more than 50 years of experience finding answers and solving problems for leading organizations in the public, non-profit, and private sectors. OSC/Lewin's strategic and analytical services aim to help clients improve policy and expand knowledge of healthcare and human service systems, enact, run, and evaluate programs to enhance delivery and financing of healthcare and family services, deal with shifts in healthcare practice, technology, and regulation, optimize performance, quality, coverage, and health outcomes, and create strategies for institutions, communities, associations, foundations, governments, and people to make healthcare and human services systems more effective. OSC/Lewin is seeking graduates of master’s programs in fields such as mathematics, statistics, biostatistics, economics, computer science, data science, epidemiology, or other quantitative fields with at least two years of relevant experience to fill statistician roles. Individuals without a master’s degree who have 5 or more years of relevant experience and a bachelor’s degree may fill these roles as well. Lewin assists state and federal administrations such as the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services in evaluating and optimizing healthcare program operations through a combination of analytic and policy-driven research, modeling, and reporting. You’ll enjoy the flexibility to work remotely from anywhere within the U.S. as you take on some tough challenges. For all hires in the Minneapolis or Washington, D.C. area, you will be required to work in the office a minimum of four days per week.
Requirements
- Academic and/or work experience performing quantitative analysis
- Maintaining a high degree of accuracy and attention to detail
- Preparing presentations and reports
- Solid oral and written communication skills
- Aptitude for interpreting data outputs and articulating findings
- Experience using software for data analysis, such as Snowflake, SQL, Python, R, or Tableau
- Intermediate to advanced knowledge of MS Office—Word, Excel, PowerPoint
- Experience in healthcare or public policy
Nice To Haves
- Experience with data analyses, such as hypothesis testing, regression modeling, and data visualization
- Experience working with large datasets
- Experience working in the CMS integrated data repository (IDR)
- Experience working effectively as a member of a project team
- Familiarity with medical claims data and/or medical auditing data
- Healthcare or human services research experience
Responsibilities
- Contribute to projects involving the application of statistical sampling such as: Investigating improper Medicare and Medicaid billing, Estimating fund recoupment associated with auditing programs, Predicting improper billing for audit optimization
- Summarize and analyze claims data as well as perform hypothesis testing
- Perform data extractions and data cleaning
- Produce analytic reports on statistical issues
Benefits
- a comprehensive benefits package
- incentive and recognition programs
- equity stock purchase
- 401k contribution
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
