What are the responsibilities and job description for the Sr. Healthcare Analyst position at Beth Israel Lahey Health?
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Under the general supervision of the Director, Performance Analytics and Reporting, the Sr. Healthcare Analyst will provide data analysis and reporting that answer questions about most pressing healthcare needs to various stakeholders across the organization in an accurate, reliable, and timely fashion. The areas of focus will include population health in terms of financial efficiency and quality improvements, opportunities design and specialty variation for multiple population cohorts. This role requires working with multiple sources of healthcare data (ex: claims, financial, and clinical data) to meet both internal and external reporting requirements. Projects range from simple programming and basic data manipulation/analysis to more advanced and predictive analytics.
Job Description:
The Sr. Healthcare Analyst provides information to leadership and utilizes subject matter expertise as well as exceptional analytic skills with a focus on a specific population or medical category to design and deliver analytic products that will help leadership make decision to drive change. S/he leads junior analysts/other team members in setting definitions and efficient ways to analyze various healthcare concepts, assist in translating the analytical requirements into easy to follow data directions, is able to forecast and model future medical expenses, understands the impact of risk adjustment on financial results and assists in finding physicians’ performance related efficiencies by guiding others into desired area of opportunity. Handles the data with confidentiality especially around PHI and sensitive information.
1. Work with a variety of tools (ex: SQL, Excel, Access, Tableau, etc.) to access data, write queries, develop programming logic, organize data, manipulate, and analyze large datasets.
2. Integrate other data sources into applicable analyses.
3. Present analytical findings in a variety of formats (reports, PowerPoint, Tableau, graphs, figures, and tables), formulate recommendations, and effectively present results and recommendations to non-analytic audiences.
4. Build and foster relationships with senior leadership/physicians and key stakeholders to understand multifaceted business problems and develop analytical solutions to complex issues to satisfy reporting and analytical needs.
5. Perform own quality checks on performed analyses and utilize internal benchmarks to verify the results and perform quality checks on analyses performed by junior analysts/other team members.
6. Incorporate CHIA cost relativity benchmarks into analyses when appropriate. 7. Document performed processes and assure the correct documentation exists and is appended to the analyses.
8. Collaborate with the Medical Director(s) and business associates (e.g., healthcare plan, PBM, consultants) to define the best approaches to find areas for improvement and trend mitigations.
9. Serve as analytical resource and internal consultant for organization’s multidisciplinary quality and utilization improvement initiatives.
10. Design analyses that calculate cost savings opportunities for BILHPN’s population(s) or specific population segments by utilizing future and retrospective risk scores and other financial adjustments.
11. Provide clinical and administrative leaders with routine and timely updates on key clinical quality and utilization indicators at the network/population/service category level.
12. Prepare reporting package for the Board of Directors and other Senior Executives.
13. Collaborate with others to identify, understand and promote opportunities to analyze data more efficiently and accurately.
14. Lead and guide the development of analyses to produce meaningful information.
15. Assist the Dir, Performance Analytics and Reporting in training junior analysts/other team members, recommend appropriate training sessions or occasionally prepare and run the training.
16. Take initiative and proactively suggest which areas of healthcare trends need to be analyzed at a deeper level and stay on top on industry specific development.
Pay Range:
$83,200.00 USD – $124,800.00 USD
The pay range listed for this position is the annual base salary range the organization reasonably and in good faith expects to pay for this position at this time. Actual compensation is determined based on several factors, that may include seniority, education, training, relevant experience, relevant certifications, geography of work location, job responsibilities, or other applicable factors permissible by law.
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Salary : $83,200 - $124,800