Medicaid and Medicare Policy Researcher

American Institutes for Research

Join AIR as a Researcher on Marketplace, Medicaid, and Medicare policy. Work collaboratively with a multidisciplinary team to inform policy design and program evaluation.

Posted 6/29/2026full-timeRemote • 🇺🇸 United StatesMid-LevelSenior💰 $92,700 - $113,000 per yearWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Engage with Marketplace, Medicaid and Medicare stakeholders through meetings, briefings, and dissemination activities.
Interpret policy and regulations.
Specify, oversee, and interpret descriptive and statistical analyses of large, complex datasets.
Translate complex analytic findings into clear, actionable insights for state and federal stakeholders, including client reports, technical memoranda, and presentations.
Design and oversee the development of dashboards and other data visualizations to present quality performance and associated data.
Apply appropriate quantitative methods to collect, manage, analyze, and interpret administrative data, such as claims, encounters, enrollment, eligibility, and provider data.
Lead or contribute to the design and execution of research and evaluation projects, including policy analyses, demonstrations, and program evaluations.
Support proposal development work by writing technical sections, contributing to analytic approaches, and supporting proposal strategy.
Manage small to mid sized project tasks or analytic components, including planning timelines, tracking deliverables, and coordinating with internal teams and external clients.
Develop and manage budgets (in collaboration with a Project Manager), and communicate timelines, scope and resources with clients.
Ensure the quality, accuracy, and consistency of all work products through appropriate QA/QC processes.
Supervise, mentor and guide junior staff through feedback, training, and modeling best practices in quantitative and qualitative policy research and professional completion of project tasks.
Work effectively in a highly collaborative, multidisciplinary team environment with staff of varied technical skills and expertise.

Requirements

What you’ll need

PhD in a relevant field (e.g., Economics, Public Policy, Health Services Research, Statistics, Public Health, Sociology, Political Science, or a related discipline), or a Master’s degree with at least four years of quantitative research experience.
Demonstrate policy expertise related to Marketplace, Medicare and Medicaid.
Demonstrated experience conducting applied quantitative research related to Marketplace, Medicaid, or Medicare.
Experience interpreting analytic results and contributing to reports, briefs, or presentations that inform program or policy decisions.
Experience working on research, evaluation, or technical assistance projects for federal or state Medicaid agencies, CMS, or other public or nonprofit entities.
Experience collaborating with cross functional teams, including programmers, analysts, and policy experts.
Familiarity with CMS data sources, Medicaid and Medicare programs, waiver demonstrations (e.g., 1115 waivers), or value based payment models preferred but not required.
Demonstrated experience applying a range of statistical inference methods.
Experience developing and writing proposals for federal agencies.
Experience developing, implementing, and/or adapting quality measures for federal programs.
Experience with large program and administrative, patient reported outcome, survey measure datasets.
Direct experience working with CMS is strongly preferred, but not required.

Benefits

Comp & perks

AIR’s Total Rewards Program is designed to reward our staff competitively and motivate them to achieve our critical mission.

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Hard Skills & Tools

Data AnalysisStatistical MethodsData VisualizationProject ManagementQuality AssuranceBudget ManagementResearch DesignTechnical WritingAnalytic ReportingData Interpretation

Soft Skills

CollaborationMentoringCommunicationTeamworkLeadership