Senior Healthcare Economics Analyst - Trumbull, CT

Why work for the leading organization in health care to help improve the lives of millions? You'll find that this is no small opportunity on our Health Care Economics team. There are new challenges and bigger rewards around every turn. Now is the time, and this the place where you'll find a career in which you can make a big difference - in our company, our industry, even our world. As a Senior Healthcare Economics Analyst, you will design and develop reports and analyze data to measure clinical outcomes, network performance and methodology levers. You will investigate key business problems through quantitative analyses of utilization and health care costs data. Along with your team, you will identify potential areas for medical cost improvements and alternative pricing strategies. You will help heal the health care system as you work with an elite team to solve tough challenges. Join us. And start doing your life's best work.(sm)

Great healthcare economics work is the result of strong purpose, conviction and pride - pride in your ability and your tools. UHC is the right place to apply and build on those skills and talents.

As a Senior Healthcare Economic Analyst on the Affordability team within Heath Care Economics you will be responsible for evaluating UHC's efforts to both improve the quality and reduce the cost of health care for our members. The Affordability team helps to identify areas where quality or cost can be improved by combining evidence from UHC's claims system with insights provided by clinical experts within UHC. As ideas on how to improve care move towards an actual program that can be implemented we help design a study that will help us to determine, as accurately as possible, whether or not that program has been a success.

As a Senior Health Care Economics Analyst you will assist in the process of analyzing data to measure clinical and financial outcomes. You will investigate key business problems through quantitative analyses of utilization and health care costs data. As a Senior Analyst, you will participate in the interpretation and analysis of clinical data from various sources and help choose best approaches for its consolidation.

The Senior Healthcare Economics Analyst will be on the forefront of efforts to develop more and better ways to keep UHC on the leading edge of providing quality health care at a reasonable price.

Primary job responsibilities include:

- Working with complex raw healthcare claims and clinical data, and recognizing data patterns and potential issues and makes recommendations

- Performing statistical analyses to determine effectiveness of clinical programs (e.g., pre-post analysis, clinical trial results)

- Summarizing analytical findings

- Researching new approaches and methods to improve the quality and cost of care.

- Performing data extraction, aggregation, and quality checking from multiple sources and tables in support of trend identification, root cause analysis, affordability initiative development, and validation/measurement of medical expense reduction initiatives

- Collaborating within and outside the Medical Informatics department, UHC, and UHG to develop and continuously improve methods, processes, and technologies to enhance healthcare quality, affordability, outcomes, and member/provider experience.

- Providing ongoing communications on project status, results and conclusions from analyses

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Economics, Business, Statistical, or Health-related field


• Demonstrated proficiency in SAS programming


• Experience in the extraction of data and the use of large data sets to perform analysis


• Strong verbal and written communication skills


• Strong interpersonal skills and ability to interact collaboratively with internal customers across multiple departments and business segments


• Self-motivated to prioritize work on multiple complex assignments with ongoing deadlines


• Proficient with MS Excel

Preferred Qualifications:

• Master's degree in Health Administration, Management Decision Sciences, Statistics, Economics, or other business-related field


• 5+ years of analysis and reporting experience in a health care environment


• Health care industry experience


• Statistical analysis background

Careers at UnitedHealthcare Employer & Individual. We all want to make a difference with the work we do. Sometimes we're presented with an opportunity to make a difference on a scale we couldn't imagine. Here, you get that opportunity every day. As a member of one of our elite teams, you'll provide the ideas and solutions that help nearly 25 million customers live healthier lives. You'll help write the next chapter in the history of health care. And you'll find a wealth of open doors and career paths that will take you as far as you want to go. Go further. This is your life's best work.(sm)

Diversity creates a healthier atmosphere: All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, protected veteran status, or disability status.

UnitedHealth Group is a drug-free workplace. Candidates are required to pass a drug test before beginning employment. In addition, employees in certain positions are subject to random drug testing.

Job Keywords: Analyst, data, outcomes, claims, patterns, trends, SAS, Trumbull, CT