Sr. Data Analyst
KeyBank
Python
Research Economist – Medicare Advantage and ACA Marketplace
RTI International
full-time
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Origin: • 🇺🇸 United States • North Carolina
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💰 $113,000 - $138,000 per year
Job Level
Mid-LevelSenior
Tech Stack
PythonSQL
About the role
- Serve as a task and project leader for implementation, analysis, evaluation, and synthesis of Medicare Advantage and Affordable Care Act individual and small group health insurance markets.
- Provide cutting-edge analyses that will influence healthcare policy and healthcare system innovation, particularly within the Medicare Advantage market and the ACA individual and small group markets.
- Using large healthcare datasets, design, evaluate, and support policies related to healthcare insurance, payment, and delivery models; managed care; healthcare financing, costs, utilization, and quality; health insurance coverage and access; prescription drugs; and risk and case-mix adjustment through statistical analysis.
- Lead analytic projects as an integral part of a team, apply an in-depth understanding of critical health policy issues and methods, contribute to and lead proposals to funding entities, and publish and present on findings for scientific audiences.
- Lead and/or contribute to quantitative and qualitative research activities on a broad range of health policy and health services research topics.
- Conduct research on emerging approaches to risk adjustment including social risk factors, functional status, and condition severity.
- Apply advanced statistical and econometric methods (e.g., hierarchical modeling, machine learning, causal inference) to improve predictive accuracy and fairness of risk models.
- Understand market dynamics and simulate impacts of new or potential policies on health insurance markets.
- Specify and supervise descriptive and statistical analyses of large, complex datasets.
- Succinctly present results for a diverse technical and policy audience.
- Author technical reports, memoranda, articles, documentation, regulations, and contract proposals.
- Design and document analytic data files, including health care claims and enrollment data.
- Ensure high quality and accuracy of work products.
- Supervise and manage research staff in completing project tasks.
- Lead and/or contribute to contract proposals including methodological design, management plans, and project budgets.
- Collaborate with teams of mixed levels of technical skills and experience.
- Develop expertise in several health care policy, research methods, and healthcare data areas.
Requirements
- PhD or PhD candidate (who can begin working in 2025 or early 2026) in health economics, health services research, health policy, actuarial science, operations research, finance or related quantitative field; or a Master’s degree in the same fields with at least 6 years of relevant experience.
- Completed coursework and experience with quantitative research.
- Experience with domestic (United States) health policy research, particularly the Medicare Advantage program or the Affordable Care Act health insurance marketplaces.
- Experience with and skills in quantitative, financial, actuarial, or statistical analysis.
- Ability to communicate (both written and verbal) complex ideas and information clearly and precisely to diverse audiences.
- Ability to support multiple projects simultaneously and manage competing deadlines with close attention to detail to ensure high quality work.
- Ability to collaborate effectively as part of a multidisciplinary team.
- Ability to analyze quantitative data with R, Python, SQL, SAS, SPSS, and/or Stata.
- Proficiency with Microsoft Office 365 Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, etc.).
- To qualify, applicants must be legally authorized to work in the United States and should not require, now or in the future, sponsorship for employment visa status (e.g., H-1B visa status, etc.) .
