Sr. Statistician (Healthcare)

Integrity Management Services, Inc. (IntegrityM) is a woman-owned small business specializing in assisting government healthcare organizations prevent and detect fraud and abuse in their programs.

At IntegrityM, we offer a culture of opportunity, recognition, and collaboration. We thrive off of these fundamental elements that make IntegrityM a great place to work. We offer the flexibility our employees need to challenge themselves and focus on advancing their professional development and careers. Large company perks. Small company feel.

http://www.integritym.com

We are now seeking a Chief Statistician to join our team. This position will be responsible for supporting fraud, waste and abuse (FWA) study development and execution activities in a multi-payer environment. The team member will have advanced statistical skills and the ability to analyze healthcare claims across Medicare, Medicaid and private payers. The statistician will be responsible for creating, reviewing, and maintaining statistical analysis plans, providing data interpretation and generating reports. These duties will be performed in support of FWA studies using administrative healthcare data.

Role and Responsibilities

• Assist with study design and develop statistical plans for data analysis in support of proposed research questions
• Develop statistical tests for FWA modeling results and provide predictive analytic statistical support
• Prepare timelines for statistical project management and performs and interprets basic and complex analyses.
• Utilizes knowledge of statistical methods and medical understanding to propose and perform additional analyses when appropriate
• Documents analyses, creates summaries and presents written and verbal results for FWA study reports
• Provides quality review on statistical analysis plan to ensure consistency with protocol and adequacy to meet objectives defined in protocol
• Effectively communicate statistical concepts to non-statisticians (managers, researchers in other fields, etc.).
• Serve as a statistical expert consultant for assigned research and FWA studies using healthcare claims data and other healthcare data sources
• Support programmers to identify potential data problems from analytic queries and to take appropriate action to guide the resolution process
• Exceptional problem-solving abilities, accuracy with work, strong organizational skills, attention to detail and the ability to multi-task while meeting deadlines
• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal, and especially the ability to communicate data clearly to clients
• Ability to work in a fast-paced, team-oriented environment with minimal supervision

Requirements

• Master’s Degree in Statistics or related field with 6 years, or Bachelors with 12 years of experience.
• Superior skills conducting statistical and mathematical modeling and analysis using SAS
• Advanced skills for modeling and data manipulation purposes
• Excellent problem solving, quantitative and analytical skills
• Advanced risk analytics and predictive modeling skills

Desired Skills and Experience:

• Ability to make complex decisions and recommendations under limited direction and using high degree of initiative and independent judgment
• Experience with various outlier detection methods and clustering techniques
• Experience conducting health care related statistical analysis and intimately familiar with healthcare institutional claims (UB 04 claim form)
• Superior multi-tasking and organization skills. Must manage multiple simultaneous projects and prioritize assignments and tasks accordingly, remaining flexible to changing priorities and new initiatives

• Experience working with healthcare administrative data across Medicare, Medicaid, commercial as well as third party data assets