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Hours Full-time, Part-time
Location Eden Prairie, MN
Eden Prairie, Minnesota

About this job

Optum delivers Intelligence for Healthcare. A UnitedHealth Group company, Optum unites the brightest minds to transform organizations and improve healthcare through information and technology. We serve a diverse customer base within the healthcare community, including healthcare payers, providers, employers, pharmaceutical companies, consumers, workers' compensation and auto liability insurers, and government agencies.
 
Optum is a premier, data-driven consulting organization in health and human services. We have over 1,000 consultants with experience working with hospitals, physicians, health plans, employers, government agencies and pharmaceutical companies. No other consulting firm operates on this scale with an exclusive health and human services focus. Optum offers tremendous breadth and depth of services to assist clients in solving the critical challenges facing the health and human services industry. We work with all markets to make global industry-wide improvements. Our data-driven, innovative solutions drive powerful business improvements and create meaningful, measurable results.
 
Our Network Intelligence team is part of Optum's Reimbursement Solutions practice which works with clients to optimize healthcare delivery financing through modeling, forecasting and analysis. We support the network development and managed care contracting efforts by providing custom analysis of proprietary and public available data. The team has a range of expertise, including provider negotiations, financial analysis, payer reimbursement arrangements and claims data. Our portfolio of clients includes several national and regional managed care plans and regional hospital systems.
 
Primary Responsibilities:


Reviews physician claim data to identify reimbursement rates and trends
Analyzes data based on findings to present a picture of the client's competitive landscape and contributions to a specific provider group
Prepares presentations of findings
Provides explanations and meaningful interpretations within area of expertise
Works closely with other team members to develop conclusions

Contributes to ad hoc analysis and reporting
Utilizes business writing skills to clearly and concisely explain relevant analysis findings

Develops best practice process based on the changing healthcare environment

Requirements

Required Qualifications:


Bachelor’s degree

1+ years of professional data analysis experience

Intermediate or better level of expertise in MS Excel (formulas, sorting, filtering, formatting, v-lookups, etc.)

Excellent written and verbal communication skills

Excellent critical thinking skills 
Preferred Qualifications:


Healthcare experience

Experience analyzing and manipulation large sets of healthcare data (i.e. identifying trends and patterns)

Careers with Optum. Here's the idea. We built an entire organization around one giant objective; make health care 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.
 
 
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