How will this role have an impact?

The Data Analyst contributes to the overall success of our organization by applying data mining techniques and statistical modeling to population health data to better understand cost, utilization, and quality of care for a defined patient population typically part of an Accountable Care Organizations (ACO) or similar environments.  Through analyzing patient claims, EHR, and organizational data, the Healthcare Data Analyst will contribute to identifying progress, performance, and opportunities for improvement on program, financial, quality, patient experience, and other metrics. The analytic findings will help healthcare providers in various value-based and pay-for-performance programs understand and identify methods to maximize reimbursement and improve population health. This work contributes to the development of new strategies and tactics to improve overall health care delivery and transform rural health systems across the country as they adapt from volume-based to value-based models of care.

This role will report to our Director, Analytics for VBC Client Analytics.

What will you do?

• Prepare a variety of reports including statistical analyses for stakeholders to assist with decision-making and tracking accountability. 
• Respond to Ad hoc reporting requests by creating reports as needed for specific situations.
• Develop new reports, dashboards and other means to enable transparency and to monitor system-wide performance of program progress, total cost of care and clinical quality. 
• Monitor trend of cost, utilization and quality of care for a defined patient population, identify factors driving the changes, and predict future trends. 
• Support acquisition and implementation of new information sources, data collection strategies, data governance, and analytics.
• Help staff with data manipulation and analytic methods to improve analytic deliverables when required.
• Other duties as assigned.

We are looking for someone with:

• Bachelor’s Degree with concentration in health informatics, computing, epidemiology, statistics, or related field
• 3-5 years relevant experience. 
• Strong SQL, Python, or R skills, ability to perform effective querying involving multiple tables and subqueries. Experience with SQL and Power BI strongly preferred.
• Ability to examine, interpret and report results of analytical initiatives to stakeholders. 
• Preferred understanding of health data formats including Medicare claims, EMR, ADT feeds, lab and pharmacy. Previous experience analyzing medical claims or EMR data is strongly preferred
• Excellent oral and written communication skills; ability to present complex information in an understandable and compelling manner

About us:

Signify Health is helping build the healthcare system we all want to experience by transforming the home into the healthcare hub. We coordinate care holistically across individuals’ clinical, social, and behavioral needs so they can enjoy more healthy days at home. By building strong connections to primary care providers and community resources, we’re able to close critical care and social gaps, as well as manage risk for individuals who need help the most. This leads to better outcomes and a better experience for everyone involved. 

Our high-performance networks are powered by more than 9,000 mobile doctors and nurses covering every county in the U.S., 3,500 healthcare providers and facilities in value-based arrangements, and hundreds of community-based organizations. Signify’s intelligent technology and decision-support services enable these resources to radically simplify care coordination for more than 1.5 million individuals each year while helping payers and providers more effectively implement value-based care programs.