What are the responsibilities and job description for the Analytics Manager, Payer Strategy & Contracting Healthcare Consulting position at ECG Management Consultants?
Overview
With over 50 years of proven success, ECG, ranked as a Best Small Firm to Work For 2024 by Consulting Magazine, is the most experienced healthcare consulting firm in the U.S. Working exclusively in this space, our people prove—over and over again—their ability to solve challenges for providers and achieve better outcomes for patients. Across our eight office locations, we’re seeking individuals who will show the courage to find innovative solutions and make a direct impact on the delivery of healthcare services across our country.
What’s in It for You: Consult with Purpose
At ECG, our consultants are working to create a healthier future for every patient. By creating partnerships with our clients and asking the tough questions, we provide honest, tailored solutions that empower them to maximize their resources. Together with our clients, we’re making healthcare more accessible, sustainable, and effective for the patients and communities they support. We’re looking for individuals to join our passionate team, combining experience and courage to make impactful changes in healthcare. ECG is committed to ensuring a supportive, inclusive, and equitable work environment that embraces DEI, where we recognize performance, communicate openly and transparently, and value work-life balance.
Join Our Payer Strategy & Contracting Division
Our PSC Division guides clients through payer strategy development, reimbursement analysis and design, contract negotiations, and other strategic and operational issues affecting commercial and government revenue streams. As part of our team, you’ll help our clients optimize their managed care contract portfolios and develop successful value-based reimbursement strategies.
PSC engagements include work with inpatient, outpatient, professional, behavioral health, post-acute, and ancillary providers, as well as payers. We assist clients primarily in the three areas below.
Contracting and Reimbursement
Our Contracting and Reimbursement practice is an industry leader in healthcare payment reform and accountable care strategies for large, complex healthcare organizations, including major health systems and provider-owned health plans. We help our clients:
We offer our clients comprehensive value- and risk-based payment program development services, including planning, implementing, and optimizing value-enhancing care models. Common projects include:
Our Payer Services practice advises traditional and provider-owned insurance companies in areas such as:
As a Payer Strategy & Contracting analytics manager at ECG, you’ll be an important part of our consulting team. Not only will you partner with some of the industry’s best to reach your highest goals, but you will also make a real difference in people’s lives and grow personally and professionally while doing so. Here, no two days or projects are alike, which means you’ll have a lot to learn and plenty of support to help you succeed.
Your Responsibilities May Include
Full time/exempt
What You Can Expect Of Us
To reward our driven, innovative, and passionate employees, we’ve built a company culture that’s centered on performance. We offer an attractive compensation package, challenging work, and an entrepreneurial environment where you can take ownership of your career—and get out as much as you put in.
The estimated base salary range for this job is $125,000 - $130,000 annually. It represents a good faith estimate of the range that ECG reasonably expects to pay at the time of the job posting. The actual salary paid will vary based on multiple factors, including but not limited to years of experience, special skills, and market changes. This job is eligible to participate in ECG’s annual incentive compensation program, which reflects ECG’s pay-for-performance philosophy. The job is also eligible to participate in ECG’s benefit plans, which include medical, dental, and vision coverage; a 401(k) matching program; unlimited PTO; and other wellness programs.
About ECG
With knowledge and expertise built over the course of 50-plus years, ECG is a national consulting firm that is redefining healthcare together with its clients. ECG offers a broad range of strategic, financial, operational, and technology-enabled consulting services. ECG is an industry leader, offering specialized expertise to clients across the full continuum of care, including hospitals, health systems, medical groups, academic medical centers, children’s hospitals, cancer centers, ambulatory surgery centers, investors, and payers/health plans.
Apply now and make an impact for years to come.
To begin the recruitment process, please submit your resume via our career site at https://careers.ecgmc.com.
ECG provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to sex, race, color, religion, national origin, citizenship, ancestry, age, disability, pregnancy, medical condition (cancer and genetic characteristics), genetic information, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, marital status, military or veteran status, or any other legally protected characteristic. People of color are encouraged to apply. We participate in E-Verify as part of our onboarding process. Having the permanent legal right to work in the United States is a condition of employment. ECG is not currently able to provide assistance to candidates requiring sponsorship or a visa.
With over 50 years of proven success, ECG, ranked as a Best Small Firm to Work For 2024 by Consulting Magazine, is the most experienced healthcare consulting firm in the U.S. Working exclusively in this space, our people prove—over and over again—their ability to solve challenges for providers and achieve better outcomes for patients. Across our eight office locations, we’re seeking individuals who will show the courage to find innovative solutions and make a direct impact on the delivery of healthcare services across our country.
What’s in It for You: Consult with Purpose
At ECG, our consultants are working to create a healthier future for every patient. By creating partnerships with our clients and asking the tough questions, we provide honest, tailored solutions that empower them to maximize their resources. Together with our clients, we’re making healthcare more accessible, sustainable, and effective for the patients and communities they support. We’re looking for individuals to join our passionate team, combining experience and courage to make impactful changes in healthcare. ECG is committed to ensuring a supportive, inclusive, and equitable work environment that embraces DEI, where we recognize performance, communicate openly and transparently, and value work-life balance.
Join Our Payer Strategy & Contracting Division
Our PSC Division guides clients through payer strategy development, reimbursement analysis and design, contract negotiations, and other strategic and operational issues affecting commercial and government revenue streams. As part of our team, you’ll help our clients optimize their managed care contract portfolios and develop successful value-based reimbursement strategies.
PSC engagements include work with inpatient, outpatient, professional, behavioral health, post-acute, and ancillary providers, as well as payers. We assist clients primarily in the three areas below.
Contracting and Reimbursement
Our Contracting and Reimbursement practice is an industry leader in healthcare payment reform and accountable care strategies for large, complex healthcare organizations, including major health systems and provider-owned health plans. We help our clients:
- Develop innovative payment approaches.
- Negotiate contracts.
- Devise reimbursement strategies.
- Improve revenues.
We offer our clients comprehensive value- and risk-based payment program development services, including planning, implementing, and optimizing value-enhancing care models. Common projects include:
- Value-based readiness assessments and payment design.
- Care model and reimbursement strategy.
- Medicare Shared Savings Program, Accountable Care Organization (ACO) REACH, or commercial ACO development.
- Clinically integrated or regional affiliate network development.
- Assistance with Medicaid managed care program participation.
- Patient-centered medical home transformation.
- Population health service organization establishment.
- Support for participation in grant-funded or governmental programs.
Our Payer Services practice advises traditional and provider-owned insurance companies in areas such as:
- Commercial insurance.
- Medicare Advantage.
- Medicaid managed care.
- Third-party administrator services.
- Provider network performance.
As a Payer Strategy & Contracting analytics manager at ECG, you’ll be an important part of our consulting team. Not only will you partner with some of the industry’s best to reach your highest goals, but you will also make a real difference in people’s lives and grow personally and professionally while doing so. Here, no two days or projects are alike, which means you’ll have a lot to learn and plenty of support to help you succeed.
Your Responsibilities May Include
- Gathering and synthesizing data from various sources (e.g., national surveys, proprietary research, client interviews, industries, markets).
- Preparing analyses related to provider claims data, price transparency, and other market data sources.
- Building flexible, dynamic, and scalable models to analyze reimbursement terms, project the impact of contract changes, and forecast market changes, preparing scenarios for consulting efforts related to delivery and business development.
- Enhancing existing models and capabilities built using SQL, primarily with some use of Python in certain models or scenarios.
- Performing complex analyses on big data, including cleaning, preparing, and interpreting.
- Communicating market insights to the Payer Strategy & Contracting consulting team and supporting business development efforts.
- Partnering with the Payer Strategy & Contracting consulting team to gather requirements related to data analytics.
- Developing, configuring, and maintaining interfaces to exchange data among Power BI, SQL databases, and other cloud-based applications.
- Developing new and innovative methodologies and approaches.
- Providing analytics and contract modeling education and training to PSC consultants.
- Strong knowledge of and passion for the healthcare industry
- A bachelor’s degree in computer science, computer engineering, mathematics, statistics, business, or a related discipline that relies heavily on critical thinking, logic, and math; master’s degree a plus
- Five-plus years of hospital reimbursement experience required
- Five-plus years of payer contract modeling required
- Prior work experience in healthcare data analytics using databases, SQL, and/or Python required
- Prior work experience in healthcare consulting preferred
- Proficiency in Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint
- Comfort with manipulating and synthesizing large datasets required
- Strong written and verbal presentation skills
- Excellent organizational skills
- Preferred locations: Atlanta, Boston, or Washington, DC
- Other locations: Chicago
- Hybrid work schedule, with a minimum of two days per week in office
Full time/exempt
What You Can Expect Of Us
To reward our driven, innovative, and passionate employees, we’ve built a company culture that’s centered on performance. We offer an attractive compensation package, challenging work, and an entrepreneurial environment where you can take ownership of your career—and get out as much as you put in.
The estimated base salary range for this job is $125,000 - $130,000 annually. It represents a good faith estimate of the range that ECG reasonably expects to pay at the time of the job posting. The actual salary paid will vary based on multiple factors, including but not limited to years of experience, special skills, and market changes. This job is eligible to participate in ECG’s annual incentive compensation program, which reflects ECG’s pay-for-performance philosophy. The job is also eligible to participate in ECG’s benefit plans, which include medical, dental, and vision coverage; a 401(k) matching program; unlimited PTO; and other wellness programs.
About ECG
With knowledge and expertise built over the course of 50-plus years, ECG is a national consulting firm that is redefining healthcare together with its clients. ECG offers a broad range of strategic, financial, operational, and technology-enabled consulting services. ECG is an industry leader, offering specialized expertise to clients across the full continuum of care, including hospitals, health systems, medical groups, academic medical centers, children’s hospitals, cancer centers, ambulatory surgery centers, investors, and payers/health plans.
Apply now and make an impact for years to come.
To begin the recruitment process, please submit your resume via our career site at https://careers.ecgmc.com.
ECG provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to sex, race, color, religion, national origin, citizenship, ancestry, age, disability, pregnancy, medical condition (cancer and genetic characteristics), genetic information, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, marital status, military or veteran status, or any other legally protected characteristic. People of color are encouraged to apply. We participate in E-Verify as part of our onboarding process. Having the permanent legal right to work in the United States is a condition of employment. ECG is not currently able to provide assistance to candidates requiring sponsorship or a visa.
Salary : $125,000 - $130,000
