Senior Analyst, Medical Economics (VBC) - REMOTE

JOB DESCRIPTION

Job Summary

The Senior Analyst, Medical Economics provides support and consultation to the Health Plan and Finance team through analyzing key business issues related to cost, utilization and revenue for multiple Molina Healthcare products. Designs and develops reports to monitor health plan performance and identify the root causes of medical cost trends. With those root causes identified, drives innovation by creating tools to monitor trend drivers and provide recommendations to senior leaders for affordability opportunities.

Responsible for conducting complex analyses of insured medical populations with the goal of identifying opportunities to improve financial performance. Extracts, analyzes, and synthesizes data from various sources to identify risks and opportunities.

 

Job Duties

• Extract and compile information from various systems to support executive decision-making
• Mine and manage information from large data sources.
• Analyze claims and other data sources to identify early signs of trends or other issues related to medical care costs.
• Work with clinical, provider network and other personnel to bring supplemental context/insight to data analyses, and design and perform studies related to the quantification of medical interventions.
• Work with business owners to track key performance indicators of medical interventions
• Perform pro forma sensitivity analyses in order to estimate the expected financial value of proposed medical cost improvement initiatives
• Proactively identify and investigate complex suspect areas regarding medical cost issues, initiate in-depth analysis of the suspect/problem areas, and suggest a corrective action plan
• Draw actionable conclusions based on analyses performed, make recommendations through use of healthcare analytics, predictive modeling, and communicate those conclusions effectively to audiences at various levels of the enterprise
• Analyze the financial performance of all Molina Healthcare products, identify favorable and unfavorable trends, develop recommendations to improve trends, communicate recommendations to management
• Lead projects to completion by contributing to ad-hoc data analyses, development, and presentation of financial reports
• Serve as subject matter expert on developing financial models to evaluate the impact of provider reimbursement changes
• Provide data driven analytics to Finance, Claims, Medical Management, Network, and other departments to enable critical decision making
• Support Financial Analysis projects related to medical cost reduction initiatives
• Support Medical Management by assisting with Return on Investment (ROI) analyses for vendors to determine if their financial and clinical performance is achieving desired results
• Keep abreast of Medicaid and Medicare reforms and their impact on Molina Healthcare

 

Job Qualifications

Required Education:

Bachelor's Degree in Mathematics, Economics, Computer Science, Healthcare Management, or related field.

Required Experience, Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

• 5+ years of related experience in healthcare
• Demonstrated understanding of Medicaid and Medicare programs or other healthcare plans
• Analytical work experience within the healthcare industry (i.e., hospitals, network, ancillary, medical facilities, healthcare vendor, commercial health insurance company, large physician practices, managed care organization, etc.)
• Proficiency with Microsoft Excel (formulas, PIVOT tables, PowerQuery, etc.)
• Proficiency with Excel and SQL for retrieving specified information from data sources.
• Experience with building dashboards in Excel, Power BI, and/or Tableau and data management
• Knowledge of healthcare operations (utilization management, disease