Senior Analyst for Value Based Care

Company: CTI Education Group
Location: Somerville
Posted on: February 25, 2021

Job Description:

Job Description - Senior Analyst for Value Based Care (3146913) Senior Analyst for Value Based Care - ( 3146913 ) About Us As a not-for-profit organization, Mass General Brigham is committed to supporting patient care, research, teaching, and service to our community by leading innovation across our system. Founded by Brigham and Women's Hospital and Massachusetts General Hospital, Mass General Brigham supports a complete continuum of care including community and specialty hospitals, a managed care organization, a physician network, community health centers, home care and other health-related entities. Several of our hospitals are teaching affiliates of Harvard Medical School, and our system is a national leader in biomedical research.
We seek employees who bring passion, are highly collaborative, and thrive in a dynamic, diverse, and inclusive team. We work in a highly agile environment with a focus on quality and achieving real impact with our work. We are excited to have a team with a rich mix of experiences, with people who bring innovative approaches to their work, an excitement for looking at things from new angles, and a spirit of continuous improvement. Finally, we seek employees who embrace and live our core values of respect, recognition, communication, commitment, trust, innovation, and service. If this sounds like you, we invite you to apply. Mass General Brigham's main office is in Somerville, MA. We are currently working as a fully-remote team due to COVID-19 and encourage applications from across the US as telecommuting becomes part of our new normal. We are committed to building an engaged, inclusive community and offer a variety of opportunities to come together virtually and facilitate learning and collaboration. Overview Mass General Brigham's board and system-wide executive leadership are making significant investments in enterprise data and digital health, enabling innovation and transformation in the delivery of health care, research and discovery. By building out core digital and data capabilities, we are supporting the achievement of Mass General Brigham's mission to drive growth and innovation in inpatient, ambulatory, and digital care. We are at the start of this journey and we are looking for talented individuals from across the nation to join us in transforming healthcare and in achieving the expected outcomes of this strategy: improved patient care, quality of care, patient engagement, and efficiency in the delivery of healthcare with excellence. In the achievement of these goals, Mass General Brigham's data and analytic teams are working together to build a system-wide data ecosystem. We are both leveraging current assets and building new, integrated solutions to provide a holistic set of industry-leading data and analytic capabilities, supporting Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning (ML), and real-time insights. Teams from Data and Analytics, Research Analytics, Clinical Data Science, and Information Systems are collaborating to build this new data and analytic ecosystem. To ensure success of this effort, Mass General Brigham is standing up a new Data and Analytics operating model with a goal of driving a level of standardization for data and analytic operations across the teams involved. The value of investments in data and analytics were proven out during our response to COVID-19 as these investments were leveraged to stand up new reporting and analytic capabilities to support executive and clinical leadership on managing the pandemic. Our broad data and analytic community has come together across Mass General Brigham 's 14 healthcare sites with shared urgency, delivering analytic tools to our system that drove timely insights in both clinical and operational domains, resulting in effective delivery of critical care and in organizational efficiencies during a time of reduced resources.
-- Role Summary The Sr. Healthcare Analyst will join the ACO Analytics team in the Enterprise Analytics Department which is part of the Data and Analytics Organization (DAO) at Mass General Brigham. This team supports the reporting and analytical needs of Population Health Management and the enterprise-wide Value-Based Care initiatives in three areas: Medicare and Medicaid ACOs, Risk Capture, and Physician Variation. In this role, the individual will be responsible for conducting analysis and producing reports to generate actionable insights for the Physician Variation program and other initiatives under MGB's Value-Based Care portfolio. Principal Duties and Responsibilities --- Perform analysis on clinical, administrative, and other internal and external data to examine variations in practice patterns and other measurements among MGB's primary care and specialty providers. --- Presents results to senior leadership with professional visual analysis and summaries in a concise and easy-to-digest manner. --- Work with a variety of tools (e.g., SAS, SQL, Excel, Tableau, etc.) to access data, write queries, develop programming logic, create dashboards, manipulate, and analyze large datasets to meet the needs for the measurement and reporting of the Physician Variation program. --- Build and foster relationships with senior leadership/physicians and key stakeholders to understand multifaceted business problems and develop analytical solutions to complex issues to satisfy reporting and analytical needs for the Physician Variation program. --- Design and deliver analytical findings on Physician Variation in targeted areas such as high-cost imaging and laboratory medicine in a report format or Tableau dashboard, formulate recommendations, and effectively present results to non-analytical audiences. --- Responsible for completing thorough quality assurance procedures to ensure accuracy, reliability, and validity of work --- Support the development, modification, and validation of new metrics as needed --- Conduct analysis to examine opportunities for cost containment, utilization optimization and other areas to support MGB's Value-Based Care initiatives Requirements

• BS/BA required. Master's degree in healthcare or related technical fields, e.g., public health, epidemiology, biostatistics, actuarial sciences, mathematics, and health services research preferred.
• Minimum of 5 years related healthcare experience, preferably with a payer or integrated healthcare system.
• Prior experience working with complex financial models in the context of total medical expenses.
• At least five years of experience with a statistical package such as SAS or R for analysis and reporting.
• At least five years of experience in data analytics, preferably in healthcare.
• Good communication skills.
• Excellent interpersonal skills, including strong customer service orientation.
• Ability to work effectively and efficiently as a member of a team.
• Self-motivated, resourceful, and able to take initiative Skills, Abilities and Competencies
  • Knowledge of statistical analysis and multivariate modeling preferred
  • Strong programming skills in SAS and/or SQL, willingness to learn other programming languages as necessary
  • Experience with clinical data (e.g., Epic) and administrative data (e.g., commercial or government payer claims) strongly preferred
  • Experience with data analysis and reporting, and working knowledge of data visualization (Tableau/Power BI) software is preferred
  • Practical problem-solving abilities, i.e. the ability to formulate hypotheses, test options and move forward in a fast-paced environment
  • Ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously, set priorities, and collaborate with team members and others throughout the organization
  • Self-motivated, resourceful, and able to take initiative
  • Ability to work both independently and as part of a team essential MGB has implemented special remote working policies due to COVID-19. These policies are subject to change; however, it is currently expected that this position will work remotely (e.g. from home) full time through June 2021
    -- Mass General Brigham (formerly Partners HealthCare) is an Equal Opportunity Employer & by embracing diverse skills, perspectives and ideas, we choose to lead. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religious creed, national origin, sex, age, gender identity, disability, sexual orientation, military service, genetic information, and/or other status protected under law. Primary Location MA-Somerville-PHS Assembly Row Work Locations PHS Assembly Row Job Professional/Managerial Organization Mass General Brigham(PHS) Schedule Full-time Standard Hours 40 Shift Day Job Employee Status Regular

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