Senior Healthcare Data Scientist

Innovaccer

Data Scientist analyzing healthcare claims data and collaborating on financial models for product development. Joining experienced team to provide data-driven insights for healthcare clients.

Posted 4/14/2026full-timeRemote • 🇺🇸 United StatesSeniorWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

SQLTableau

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Work independently to analyze and interpret healthcare utilization and financial data to address business questions regarding population health management, health and economic outcomes, quality of healthcare, and product design.
Work with clients to identify historical and future cohort populations, calculate utilization and costs, and estimate financial results under different models.
Work with clients to provide insights about new opportunity assessment.
Use SAS, SQL, and Tableau to design platforms to report on various healthcare deliverables.
Track issues with reports, including defects in logic, data quality problems, and process errors.
Build up predictive models to segment patients.
Support analytical research projects using your statistics and modeling skills.

Requirements

What you’ll need

A Bachelor’s degree is required. A Master’s degree in statistics, social science, public health, mathematics, economics, or epidemiology is preferred.
A minimum of 3 years of healthcare industry experience is required.
A minimum of 5 years of experience programming in SAS, SQL is required.
Experience using statistical methods to evaluate healthcare claims data and experience with reporting tools such as Tableau strongly preferred.
Strong organizational, analytical, multi-tasking, documentation, presentation, and problem-solving skills.
Familiarity with healthcare databases and coding systems (e.g., ICD, CPT, HCPCS). Experience/knowledge of Medicare and Medicaid data is preferred. Experience with the VRDC database is preferred.
Ability to communicate effectively in both oral and written form to a widely diverse audience.
Strong business acumen and interpersonal skills.
Ability to identify relationships in data sets, determine key fields, and present findings unassisted.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Generous Paid Time Off: Recharge and relax with 22 days of fixed time off per year, in addition to company holidays—because we believe work-life balance fuels performance.
Best-in-Class Parental Leave: Spend quality time with your growing family. We offer one of the industry’s most generous parental leave policies to support you during life’s most important moments.
Recognition & Rewards: We celebrate wins—big and small. Get rewarded with monetary incentives and company-wide recognition for your impact and dedication. Your hard work won’t go unnoticed.
Comprehensive Insurance Coverage: Stay covered with medical, dental, and vision insurance, plus 100% company-paid short- and long-term disability and basic life insurance. Optional perks include discounted legal aid and pet insurance.

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Hard Skills & Tools

SASSQLTableaupredictive modelingstatistical methodsdata analysisdata interpretationhealthcare claims evaluationreportingdata quality assessment

Soft Skills

organizational skillsanalytical skillsmulti-taskingdocumentation skillspresentation skillsproblem-solving skillscommunication skillsinterpersonal skillsbusiness acumenindependent work