Clinical and Economic Research Patient Classification Senior Research Specialist

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Job Description:

Patient Classification Researcher Clinical and Economic Research (Solventum)

3M Health Care is now Solventum

At Solventum, we enable better, smarter, safer healthcare to improve lives. As a new company with a long legacy of creating breakthrough solutions for our customers’ toughest challenges, we pioneer game-changing innovations at the intersection of health, material and data science that change patients' lives for the better while enabling healthcare professionals to perform at their best. Because people, and their wellbeing, are at the heart of every scientific advancement we pursue.

We partner closely with the brightest minds in healthcare to ensure that every solution we create melds the latest technology with compassion and empathy. Because at Solventum, we never stop solving for you.

The Impact You’ll Make in this Role

The Clinical and Economic Research (CER) Senior Patient Classification Research Specialist is a key member of the CER team, engaged in enhancing our clinical patient classification systems.  You will have the opportunity to tap into your curiosity and collaborate with some of the most innovative and diverse people around the world.  We are an international leader in designing and maintaining healthcare payment and value-based care systems.  We support the United States and 14 other countries on how they budget and pay for inpatient and outpatient care and incenting high quality outcomes. This role would appeal to highly motivated self-starters interested in playing a vital role in the equitable improvement of driving efficiency and value across the healthcare delivery system. Being part of a team that has more than 40 years of experience developing classification, grouping and reimbursement calculation systems globally for inpatient, outpatient and professional settings addressing healthcare payment reform, value-based care and population health.  Here, you will make an impact by:

• Contributing subject matter expertise in the research, clinical logic content design, evaluation, development and application of Solventum Clinical and Economic Research clinical categorical patient classification methodologies for inpatient, outpatient facility, population care, risk adjustment and payment with particular focus on Solventum’s outpatient Enhanced Ambulatory Patient Groups (EAPGs), inpatient All Patient Refined DRGs (APR-DRGs), and Clinical Risk Groups (CRGs) to advance effective and efficient payment and utilization solutions and ensuring its meaningful integration into end user operations.
• Collaborate with research team to create and develop research approaches and plans with academic rigor that combine the power of categorical models with big data to drive further refinement of our models enhancing our analytic abilities to express and summarize clinically relevant results of analyzing big data making results that much more understandable and actionable across the entire health system.
• Advance and enhance methodology impact and usability in improving payment accuracy and measure efficiency by users across payer, provider, government, business partner, and non-profit clients. 
• Bring an apply strong and broad understanding of the applicable healthcare landscape and inpatient/outpatient/population payment classification solutions / risk adjustment.  Bring forward emerging clinical categorical patient classification models and trends in the healthcare delivery market and usage in US Medicare, Medicaid, commercial and global health care policy.  Perform and interpret review of healthcare patient classification, healthcare delivery reform and market trends related to EAPG, APR-DRG and CRGs.
• Support application of clinical categorical patient classification systems into quality and patient safety methodologies and approaches/risk adjustment.
• Publish articles, blogs and comments on patient