Health Care Data Analyst - Minnetonka, MN or Telecommute

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 the Health Care Data 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)
 
The chosen candidate will research and investigate key business problems and clinical operations processes through quantitative analyses and provide management with statistical findings and conclusions in analyzing, interpreting trends and root cause analysis.
 
Primary Responsibilities:


Works with the clinical program leaders and business intelligence to gather reporting and analytic requirements

Standardizes reporting processes and documentation

Assesses, interprets, and analyzes customer needs and requirements

Solves moderately complex problems and/or conducts moderately complex analyses

Provides analytical support and expertise when compiling and reporting information

Evaluates, interprets and analyzes data and/or business process

Evaluates and presents information in a manner that will facilitate management's understanding of the results and impact

Develops, analyzes and monitors new, routine and ad hoc reports

Works with minimal guidance; seeks guidance on only the most complex tasks

Works with unstructured data, and recognizes data patterns and potential issues and makes recommendations

Proactively discovers potential areas for affordability and management/healthcare initiative strategies

Performs data cleaning, preparation, reporting, and analysis

Leverages existing and ad-hoc reporting capabilities to identify trends in health plan performance and opportunities for improvement

Performs 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 clinical operations and clinical program performance

Provides consultative advice and interprets and summarizes analytical findings

Researches, identifies, and implements new approaches and methods to facilitate process management

Collaborates within and outside the Community and State to lead the development and continuous improvement of methods, processes, and technologies to enhance healthcare quality, affordability, outcomes, and member/provider experience

Measures and reports impact of clinical programs

Develops full understanding of clinical programs being measured

Develops project scope

Identifies and implements appropriate analytic approaches/methodologies

Extracts, aggregates and QAs applicable data for measurement purposes

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

Works with clinical teams to identify areas of opportunity to drive financial and quality performance of programs

Develops conclusions and recommendations

Communicates results to relevant audiences

Perform Healthcare Affordability and Clinical Compliance Analytics

Leverages existing and ad-hoc reporting capabilities to identify trends in health plan performance and opportunities for medical expense reduction and clinical adherence to internal and contractual standards

Extracts, aggregates and performs quality assurance on applicable data from multiple sources and tables for purposes of root cause analysis, affordability initiative development, and clinical adherence initiatives 

Performs data analytics in support of trend identification, initiative/program development and validation/measurement

Uses data analytics to identify and gain consensus on approaches to address medical cost and clinical adherence trends (e.g., contract remediation, benefit design, clinical intervention

Provides ongoing communications on project status, results and conclusions from analyses

Performs standard and ad hoc reporting and develops/facilitates development of technical solutions

Produces or supports development of monthly scorecards/dashboards (e.g., clinical operations performance reports, clinical adherence reports), develop and implement automation strategies for work efficiencies and reduction or elimination of manual work

Designs and implements reports and databases to meet specific customer requirements (e.g., Product, local markets, external customers)

Works with IT or BI to build ongoing reporting needs into the production environment
 

Required Qualifications:


Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience

2+ years of work experience in a corporate setting

Minimum intermediate level of proficiency working with MS Excel including formulas, calculations, charts, graphs, etc.                                 

Basic level of proficiency with Access

Intermediate level of proficiency in performing data analytics

Microsoft Office Suite (i.e. Power Point, Visio, Project, Excel, Access)

Microsoft Excel (i.e. Advanced formulas and filtering, Graphs, Charts, Scorecards, Dashboards, Pivot Tables, Power Pivot Tables, VBA)

Microsoft Access (i.e. create SQL, Forms, Table normalization, Reports, VBA)

Share Point 2010 (i.e. Site Administration: create and maintain Lists, Libraries, user structure. Create Nintex Workflows and InfoPath.)

Programming: jQuery, REST API, SP Services

Microsoft SQL Server (i.e. SSRS, T-SQL programming:  create Tables, Normalization, Views, and Stored Procedures)

Oracle (i.e. PL-SQL, PL-SQL Developer)

Crystal Reports

Tableau
Preferred Qualifications:


2+ years of health care experience

Ability to quickly learn and use computer software tools effectively
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UnitedHealth Group is a drug-free workplace. Candidates are required to pass a drug test before beginning employment.
 
 
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