Senior Quality Analyst (Remote)

CareFirst•Baltimore, MD

3d•Remote

About The Position

The Senior Quality Analyst is responsible for the most complex work of the team in defining, measuring, analyzing, and evaluating population health, while prioritizing, developing, and operationalizing innovative initiatives to improve the quality of care and experience, resulting in industry-leading outcomes at a population level. Independently responsible and accountable for ensuring that their work aligns with and helps to achieve the organization's vision as it relates to population health, quality, and member experience. Serves as peer mentor within the team. The incumbent will be expected to come into a CareFirst location periodically for meetings, training and/or other business-related activities.

Requirements

Bachelor's Degree in population health, public health, healthcare administration, business administration, health policy, economics, statistics, mathematics, data science, or a related field OR in lieu of a Bachelor's degree, an additional 4 years of relevant work experience is required in addition to the required work experience.
5 years professional experience in a business environment (public health, health insurance, management consulting fields preferred); evidence of progressing levels of responsibility.
Expertise in qualitative and quantitative data analyses and presentations.
End-to-end experience designing, developing, and implementing innovative strategies to improve population health.
Experience self-managing multiple projects and provide regular status reports.
Ability to conduct advanced analytics using SQL, Python, R, or similar.
Fluent in the use of Microsoft tools including Excel, Word, Power Point and Outlook.
Expertise with healthcare claims, survey, clinical, and health data.
Ability to mentor and guide other team members and lead initiatives in a matrix environment.
Must be able to meet established deadlines and handle multiple customer service demands from internal and external customers, within set expectations for service excellence.
Must be able to effectively communicate and provide positive customer service to every internal and external customer, including customers who may be demanding or otherwise challenging.
Must be eligible to work in the U.S. without Sponsorship

Nice To Haves

RN-BC - Certified General Nursing Practice
Certification in Quality or Process Improvement Methods preferred.
Direct experience with HEDIS, NCQA accreditation, CAHPS, quality programs, Stars, quality improvement, or related quality activities in a healthcare, managed care, payer, provider, or HEDIS vendor environment.
Data analytics experience working with large data sets to answer clinical, operational, or business questions; prior experience with healthcare data expected.
Experience interpreting and applying HEDIS measure specifications, NCQA requirements, medical record review guidelines, and audit documentation expectations to support accurate gap closure, reporting, supplemental data use, and quality performance improvement.
Experience monitoring productivity, quality, retrieval, abstraction, overread, outreach, pend management, or project trends to recommend workflow improvements, escalation, training, operational strategies, supplemental data validation, primary source verification, and audit-readiness workflows.
Experience developing or maintaining SOPs, job aids, workflows, trackers, training materials, reference tools, or audit documentation, and mentoring or cross-training peers during quality, HEDIS, medical record retrieval, or medical record review initiatives.
At least two consecutive HEDIS seasons with the same company preferred.

Responsibilities

Act as a senior subject matter expert in HEDIS, population health, measurement science, NCQA accreditation, quality programs, Stars, medical record review, supplemental data, primary source verification, and quality improvement.
Utilize NCQA and HEDIS technical specifications, quality standards, and internal Quality Department guidelines to complete and document work products in support of compliant reporting, audit readiness, and quality performance improvement.
Lead and support complex medical record retrieval, provider outreach, intake, routing, upload, documentation, abstraction, overread, quality review, and pend research activities for prospective and retrospective HEDIS projects, Stars initiatives, Risk Adjustment support, supplemental data validation, and other quality or regulatory initiatives.
Validate provider and facility information, confirm records are received from the appropriate provider group, ensure records are assigned to the correct project, resolve complex retrieval or documentation issues, and escalate provider or vendor barriers as needed.
Analyze and evaluate workflow outcomes, retrieval progress, abstraction accuracy, pend trends, data integrity findings, productivity, quality results, and measure-level opportunities using qualitative and quantitative methodologies.
Produce actionable reports, summaries, visualizations, and recommendations that support targeted gap closure, audit readiness, supplemental data use, operational improvement, and improved quality outcomes across Commercial, Medicare, Medicaid, ACA, FEP, and other assigned lines of business.
Prioritize, develop, and operationalize quality improvement opportunities in collaboration with internal Quality teams, analytics partners, provider-facing teams, vendors, and other business areas.
Support the standardization of retrieval, abstraction, overread, reconciliation, PSV, vendor management, training, and documentation workflows to improve accuracy, timeliness, compliance, continuity, and scalability across HEDIS and quality operations.
Mentor team members and provide guidance on complex work efforts, including HEDIS measure interpretation, medical record review, pend resolution, provider outreach, audit documentation, workflow troubleshooting, and issue escalation.
Develop and maintain standard operating procedures, job aids, training materials, trackers, workflow documentation, and reference tools.
Assist with special projects and department initiatives requiring thought leadership, subject matter expertise, cross-functional coordination, and consultative support.