at atOrchard LLC in Chicago, Illinois, United States
Job Description
Data Analyst II - Healthcare FraudEaston, MD (or) Remote U.S.
@Orchard LLC is supporting a not-for-profit corporation that partners with public and private sectors to create high quality, safe, and efficient delivery of health care and human services programs. They have multiple lines of business including population health, utilization review, managed care organization quality review, and quality assurance for programs serving individuals with developmental disabilities. Our Client is also a national leader in fighting fraud, waste and abuse for large organizations across the country. In addition, our Foundation provides grant opportunities to those with programs for under-served communities.
If you want to make a difference in the future of our nation's healthcare programs, this is the company for you!
About the Data Analyst Role:
The Data Analyst utilizes various data analysis tools and software (like SAS, SQL, Excel, R, Python, Tableau, etc.) to manipulate and analyze data, identifying trends in data to pinpoint variances, outliers, and percentile-ranked groups that provide actionable insight opportunities for quality improvement or in-depth investigations. Collaborates with other data analysts to create tabular and graphical presentations that clearly illustrate current levels of care, ensuring complex data is accessible and understandable for both technical and non-technical stakeholders. Contributes to the design of re-measurement strategies to assess the efficacy of interventions, leveraging analytical reports to effectively quantify their impact on healthcare improvement.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities :
- Prepares and/or modifies reports using complex functions of spreadsheet software to illustrate complex analysis.
- Performs data entry into spreadsheets, relational databases, or other applications and tracks data receipt and distribution to maintain records.
- Conducts routine functions using databases and client systems, ensuring accuracy and efficiency.
- Operates and manages dashboards following internal processes and procedures for data capture and measurement.
- Drafts and maintains data and process documentation, ensuring clarity and accessibility.
- Prepares trending reports and graphic presentations to visually represent data trends.
- Utilizes SAS templates or menu-driven analytic tools to build efficient data analysis.
- Assists in research on specific topics, contributing to comprehensive data understanding.
- Interprets policies, procedures, and instructions with limited flexibility, adhering to contract requirements and established policies and procedures.
To perform the job successfully, an individual should demonstrate the following competencies:
- Business Expertise- Good understanding of how the team integrates with others in accomplishing the objectives of the department.
- Problem Solving- Uses judgment based on practice and precedence.
- Nature of Impact- Small, but direct impact through the quality of the tasks/service provided by the individual.
- Area of Impact- Primarily on own department.
- Interpersonal Skills- Information exchange requiring tact and diplomacy is a significant feature of the job.
- Leadership- This job has no supervisory responsibilities.
- Functional Knowledge- Good understanding of procedures and concepts within own discipline.
- Project Management- Project/program team member.
Your background will include:
- Bachelor's degree (BA or BS) in Statistics, Biostatistics, Epidemiology, Public Health or related discipline (e.g., Economics, Mathematics, Engineering, Computer Science) required.
- Minimum of 0-2 years of hands-on Python, R and/or SQL or demonstrated combination of education and experience (OR) Master's and academic projects, internships, and/or assistantships utilizing statistical programming.
- Minimum of 2-4 years experience preferred
- Must have experience utilizing Python for data analysis.
- Must have strong verbal and written communication skills.
- Working knowledge of healthcare data and databases preferred.
If you match the requirements for this opportunity and believe you have the experience and talent to succeed in the role, we need to hear from you!
Established in 2010, @Orchard LLC, also known as, Talent Orchard has an exceptional reputation, providing staffing solutions to time-sensitive, talent scarcity issues to deliver better talent management ROI. Our specialty lies in the critical area of program talent acquisition and resource management, not in one narrow skillset, but across many areas of technical and functional delivery. To learn more about our other exciting opportunities, visit our Jobs Page at www.atOrchard.com. To view full details and how to apply, please login or create a Job Seeker account
