Population Health Analyst

POSITION SUMMARY:

Boston Medical Center Health System is an integrated health system devoted to the proposition that every person regardless of their social or economic circumstances deserves the best health care.  Our mission is to provide Exceptional Care, Without Exception and our vision is to make Boston the healthiest urban population in the world.  Our health system includes:

•    Boston Medical Center, a 498-bed academic medical center and the leading safety-net hospital in New England
•    WellSense Health Plan, a nonprofit health insurance company serving more than 740,000 members across Massachusetts and New Hampshire through Medicare, Individual and Family, and Medicaid plans.
•    Boston HealthNet, a network of 15 community health centers throughout Boston
•    Boston Accountable Care Organization, a partnership between BMC and local CHC’s created to coordinate delivery of care across our health network 
•    Clearway Health, partners with hospitals and health systems to build or strengthen their own specialty pharmacy program, improve access to care, and provide personalized support to vulnerable patients, families, providers, and care managers to eliminate barriers and ensure medications are received on time.

Essential to the success of our health system is our ability to work with data to understand who our patients are, identify who needs special intervention, and target clinical programs that will drive better health outcomes for our patients. The System Analytics team sits at the center of our strategy, supporting the health system to accurately measure performance, understand key drivers, and identify new opportunities. This will include collaborating with clinical and operational leaders to design the right metrics and analyses, as well as developing insights that will inform critical decisions by senior leadership. 

The Population Health Quality Analyst will play a key role on this team, and represents the key connecting point between Strategy, IT, Analytics, and our stakeholders.

Position: Population Health Analyst

Department: System Analytics

Schedule: Full Time

ESSENTIAL DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Develop analyses that help the organization understand and monitor performance, break down key drivers, and identify new opportunities

• Create ongoing reports and high-impact dashboards and visuals that effectively communicate performance to operational and clinical leaders and other stakeholders (e.g, Tableau dashboards)

• Develop gap lists to identify patients requiring intervention

• Develop models to prioritize where to focus efforts and resources by measures and patient segments

• Develop models to understand the role of health disparities in driving patient outcomes

• Interface with stakeholders to engage on data questions, develop new analyses, and present results

• Manage multiple projects and analyses simultaneously while meeting key deadlines and deliverables, and prioritizing time and resources

• Identify and elevate key obstacles for intervention that may jeopardize timelines

• Support other Population Health analytics initiatives as needed, including quality reporting, risk coding, medical expense management, member attribution, risk stratification, readmissions, utilization management, and low-acuity ED. 

JOB REQUIREMENTS

EDUCATION:

• Bachelor’s degree, preference for concentration in economics, biology, biostatistics, data science, statistics, or computer science

• Masters degree preferred.

EXPERIENCE:

• Two to three years of data analytics experience working with large data sets to answer important clinical, operational, or business questions.

• Ability to conduct advanced analytics using SAS, SQL, fluent in Excel.

• Experience developing dashboards using Tableau.

• Ability to meet deadlines, multi-task, problem solve and use appropriate technology to analyze business problems. Project management skills a plus.

• Strong communications skills, both verbal and written.

• Experience with care management data preferred.

• Experience with quality measures (e.g. HEDIS, CMS measures) preferred. 

• Prior experience with healthcare data, and knowledge of healthcare claims preferred.

• Experience with external grouping methodologies such as DRG, ETG and DxCG/CDPS in analytics preferred.

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, & ABILITIES:

• We are seeking a top performing analyst to help us find answers to complex healthcare questions across large and complex data sets, and to design and develop operational reports that will drive health system performance. 

• The ideal candidate will have the following skills:

• Technically proficient: Strong coding skills. Capable of manipulating large data sets, cleaning and normalizing data, generating analysis and working through challenges independently.

• Reporting capability: Experience in public reporting that meets auditing requirements.

• Strong analytic thinking: Effective at identifying the critical question, capable of navigating the trade-off’s between accuracy / comprehensiveness / complexity vs. speed and simplicity, able to make independent decisions on how to adjust assumptions and analyses. Can distill complex analysis into simple charts to communicate key takeaways.

• Curious and creative: Capable of finding the right analytic approach, always asking questions and testing the data and analysis to ensure that we are answering the right key questions. 

• Outcomes-focused: Ability to manage multiple high priority projects simultaneously and prioritize to meet key projects.

• Passionate about our mission: Highest level of integrity and respect for colleagues and for our mission to provide Exceptional Care Without Exception to our patients and members.

Compensation Range:

This range offers an estimate based on the minimum job qualifications. However, our approach to determining base pay is comprehensive, and a broad range of factors is considered when making an offer. This includes education, experience, skills, and certifications/licensures as they directly relate to position requirements; as well as business/organizational needs, internal equity, and market-competitiveness. In addition, BMCHS offers generous total compensation that includes, but is not limited to, benefits (medical, dental, vision, pharmacy), discretionary annual bonuses and merit increases, Flexible Spending Accounts, 403(b) savings matches, paid time off, career advancement opportunities, and resources to support employee and family well-being. 

NOTE: This range is based on Boston-area data, and is subject to modification based on geographic location.

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