Senior Healthcare SQL Data Analyst - White Plains, NY

No industry is moving faster than health care. And no organization is better positioned to lead health care forward than UnitedHealth Group. We need attention to every detail with an eye for the points no one has considered. The rewards for performance are significant. The Health Care Data Analyst will join the Clinical Informatics Department as a key catalyst and team player to advance and implement the Company's analytic agenda and enhance its capabilities to measure, interpret, and report business and clinical performance and identify new business opportunities. Working with your department colleagues, internal functional leads and external client analytics and business leadership, you will provide comprehensive analytic and reporting services and solutions that measure and support ongoing program performance and enhancement. 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. Join us. And start doing your life's best work.(sm)

Primary Responsibilities:

• Analyze health care claims and authorization data to establish and evaluate baseline performance measures and trend, size potential operational and clinical opportunities, measure ongoing Company performance vs. target, and identify and model additional product/service expansion opportunities


• Design, implement, maintain and enhance data workflows and modeling, analytical processes, and reporting products that support company and client operations and program performance and opportunity assessment


• Serve as analytic contact/resource for external business partners to support ongoing data exchange, analysis, reporting and interpretation of performance results; establish and maintain effective ongoing client relationships


• Interface and engage all functional departments (e.g., clinical, claims, network, operations, etc.) within the Company in the development of analytic models and reporting and in the interpretation of results


• Maintain highest standards of data integrity and quality throughout the department's data collection-to-reporting pipeline


• Implement and support new technologies and processes to enhance the analytical/reporting performance of the department and the Company as a whole in the service of its clients

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in a quantitative, finance, technical or health care analytics related discipline or equivalent experience


• Hands-on experience with handling and analyzing large data sets (e.g., over 1 million records) including ETL, preferably with healthcare claims and other related healthcare data


• Proven analytical skills particularly with comprehensive, multi-level drill-down assessment of key health care utilization and financial performance measures by line-of-business, geography, provider type, product, clinical condition, service type, etc.


• Demonstrated clinical analytic ability within a managed health care environment, (e.g., working with analysis of diagnostic case-mix, patient-based episode of care grouping and analysis, provider profiling and/or site-of-service analyses, etc.)


• Exceptional computing skills, particularly in relational database programming, including SQL Server, MS product suite, etc.


• Excellent organizational and communication skills across all levels of the organization with high level of clarity, accuracy and attention to detail


• Compelling interpersonal, verbal and written communications skills; strong personal initiative and accountability as well as ability to work independently


• Experience with MS Office Suite (MS Word, Excel, Power Point, Visio)


• Proficiency with MS Access, SQL Server 2000, SQL Server 2005/2008,

Preferred Qualifications:

• Master's degree


• Data analytics and reporting experience in a health insurance or health care management or delivery organization


• Statistical software experience


• SAS experience

Careers with Optum. Here's the idea. We built an entire organization around one giant objective; make the health system work better for everyone. So when it comes to how we use the world's large accumulation of health-related information, or guide health and lifestyle choices or manage pharmacy benefits for millions, our first goal is to leap beyond the status quo and uncover new ways to serve. Optum, part of the UnitedHealth Group family of businesses, brings together some of the greatest minds and most advanced ideas on where health care has to go in order to reach its fullest potential. For you, that means working on high performance teams against sophisticated challenges that matter. Optum, incredible ideas in one incredible company and a singular opportunity to do 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, age, national origin, protected veteran status, disability status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by law.

UnitedHealth Group is a drug-free workplace. Candidates are required to pass a drug test before beginning employment.

Job Keywords: Healthcare, Healthcare Economics, Network Pricing, Medical Economics, Healthcare Analyst, Financial Analyst, Sales Contracts Analyst, Pricing Consultant, SAS, SQL, MS Access, White Plains, NY, New York