3439-Senior Healthcare Data Scientist
Innovaccer
About the Role
As an individual contributor on the Data Science & Analytics team, you will use your experience with healthcare claims data, your programming experience in SAS, SQL, and your analytic skills to help develop new products, provide analytics and clinical outcomes reporting and data-driven insights to our customers.
In this role you will join an experienced team of data science professionals and actuarials to build up platforms and financial models, measure the value and improve the effectiveness for various clients.
A Day in the Life
- 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 population, 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.
What You Need
- To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty
- satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
- A Bachelor’s degree is required. A Master’s degree in statistics, social science, public health, mathematics, economics, or epidemiology is preferred.
- Minimum of 3 years of health care industry experience is required.
- 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 on Medicare and Medicaid data is preferred. Experience on 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.
Here’s What We Offer
- 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.
- 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.
Innovaccer Inc. is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to fostering an inclusive workplace where all employees feel valued and empowered regardless of any characteristic protected by federal, state or local law including, without limitation, race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, medical condition, disability, age, marital status, or veteran status. Innovaccer Inc. participates in the E-Verify program to confirm employment eligibility of all newly hired employees based out of the U.S. and employed by Innovaccer Inc.
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