Senior Healthcare Economics Analyst

UnitedHealth Group Inc.•Minnetonka, MN

73d•Hybrid

About The Position

At UnitedHealthcare, we're simplifying the health care experience, creating healthier communities and removing barriers to quality care. The work you do here impacts the lives of millions of people for the better. Come build the health care system of tomorrow, making it more responsive, affordable and equitable. Ready to make a difference? Join us to start Caring. Connecting. Growing together. What makes your Healthcare Economics career greater with UnitedHealth Group? Advancement, access to data, variety of product lines, and rewards for delivering on our mission. The Senior Healthcare Economics Analyst will support United Retiree Solutions (URS) Strategic Growth, Reporting and Analytics (SGRA) teams' analytic needs. This position will partner with the Associate Director to extract, analyze and interpret Healthcare data to uncover trends. This role will also assist in managing and understanding the customers' Medical and Pharmacy Cost trends. The role offers a unique blend of support for internal teams such as Actuarial and Finance, as well as customer-facing teams, such as Sales and Account Management. The Senior Analyst will be responsible for Medical and Pharmacy financial and utilization reporting. The individual must be able to extract, aggregate and QA applicable data for measurement purposes leveraging existing or creating ad-hoc reporting capabilities to identify trends in health plan performance. This position will work with very large data sets and see projects from conceptualization to completion by contributing to database creation, statistical modeling, and financial reports. This position follows a hybrid schedule with four in-office days per week.

Requirements

Bachelor's Degree in Healthcare Administration, Actuarial Math, Statistics, Economics, or a related field
Experience working with large Data sets
Experience with SAS/SQL and/or other statistical software
Intermediate or higher level of proficiency with MS Excel (practical experience working with pivot tables, advanced formulas, graphs, vlookups) and PowerPoint
Proven ability to pay attention to detail and ensure accuracy of work

Nice To Haves

Advanced Degree
2+ years of applicable corporate or academic experience in data analytics-examining and summarizing data to uncover insights
Claims analytics experience
VBA knowledge
Proven to be team oriented and motivated to collaborate
Demonstrated proactive problem-solving abilities

Responsibilities

Apply critical thinking skills to anticipate questions from key stakeholders and consider all aspects of an analysis before completion
Use SAS/SQL to construct claims-based datasets
Construct polished MS Excel models to satisfy analytical requests
Provide ongoing, meaningful, communications to managers on project status, results and conclusions from analyses
Identify, analyze, and explain Medicare medical trends using claims-based analyses
Understand and interpret key drivers of health care trends (i.e. medical cost trends, utilization, etc.), clinical program performance, and potential opportunities for medical cost reduction or program improvement
Build solid relationships within the organization including finance, network pricing, product, actuarial/underwriting, clinical, and operations teams as well as other areas to create a connection between medical trend evaluations and financial results
Update reports to support trend analysis