Data Analyst - Healthcare Data
- Job Title
- Data Analyst - Healthcare Data
- Job ID
- 27747715
- Work From Home
- Yes
- Work Remote
- Yes
- Location
- Work From Home Remote
- Other Location
- Description
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Data Analyst II
Work from Home, within the Continental United States
@Orchard LLC is retained by a not-for-profit corporation that partners with public and private sectors to create high-quality, safe, and efficient delivery of health care and human services programs. We have multiple lines of business including population health, utilization review, managed care organization quality review, and quality assurance for programs serving individuals with developmental disabilities. Our Client is also a national leader in fighting fraud, waste, and abuse for large organizations across the country. In addition, our Foundation provides grant opportunities to those with programs for under-served communities.
We have an exciting opportunity for an entry-level Healthcare Data Analyst to join our Client’s team. This is a somewhat entry level professional who performs study design, data analysis, and report preparation. Studies originate from preliminary data analysis (trends), literature review, experience and expertise of the team, and mandated projects. Data analysis, including data preparation and presentation of findings is performed in conjunction with other analysts. Reports are drafted by teams with leadership of Scientists.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
- Discuss the requirements of the RFI with the customer, assisting to define the most appropriate type of analysis and report format to address the allegation.
- Identify the most appropriate source of data and recommend the methodology for analysis, consulting with Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) as needed
- Extract Medicare claims and Prescription Drug Event (PDE) records from the CMS Integrated Data Repository (IDR) using various interfaces.
- Utilize additional databases to supplement the information available in the claims data.
- Analyze the data and prepare reports using SAS, SAS EBI and Excel. For ad hoc requests, you will use SAS and/or Excel to complete analysis and prepare reports.
- Participate in projects involving a multidisciplinary team.
- Prepare statistical samples under the direction of a statistician.
- Research Medicare Program policies and regulations in order to understand and assist with analysis requests.
- Clearly communicate with law enforcement, investigators and subject matter experts to identify allegations.
- Trend data to identify potential opportunities (e.g., variances, significant outliers, percentile ranked groups).
- Work with team to design data analysis strategies to identify potential areas for a focused investigation.
- Analyze data, draw conclusions, and summarize.
- Develop tabular and graphical presentations of data.
- Depending upon the project, assist with and/or performs statistical analysis or predictive modeling to detect aberrancies and fraud.
- Utilize commonly used concepts, practices and procedures, relying on instructions, pre-established guidelines and mentor’s input to perform the functions of the job.
- Leverage standardized reporting and stored processes to meet customer deliverables.
- Contribute to, develop and deliver presentations to internal and external customers.
- Format and /or modify reports applying some complex functions of spreadsheet software.
Required Experience:- Bachelor's degree (BA or BS) in Statistics, Biostatistics, Epidemiology, Public Health or related discipline (e.g., Economics, Mathematics, Engineering, Computer Science) required.
- Coursework, academic projects, internships and/or work experience utilizing one or more data science programming languages (e.g., SQL, R, Python, SAS, etc.) required.
Established in 2010, @Orchard has an exceptional reputation, providing staffing solutions to time-sensitive, talent scarcity issues to deliver better talent management ROI. Our specialty lies in the critical area of program talent acquisition and resource management, not in one narrow skillset, but across many areas of technical and functional delivery. To learn more about our other exciting opportunities, visit our Jobs Page at www.atorchard.com.
