Senior Healthcare Data Scientist

Innovaccer is a company that empowers healthcare providers, payers, and government organizations to enhance health outcomes through intelligent data solutions. The Senior Healthcare Data Scientist will analyze healthcare claims data, develop products, and provide insights to clients, while collaborating with a team of data science professionals. This role involves building predictive models, designing reporting platforms, and supporting analytical research projects.

Responsibilities:

• Work independently to analyze and interpret healthcare utilization and financial data to address business questions regarding population health management, health and economic outcomes, quality of healthcare, and product design
• Work with clients to identify historical and future cohort populations, calculate utilization and costs, and estimate financial results under different models
• Work with clients to provide insights about new opportunity assessment
• Use SAS, SQL, and Tableau to design platforms to report on various healthcare deliverables
• Track issues with reports, including defects in logic, data quality problems, and process errors
• Build up predictive models to segment patients
• Support analytical research projects using your statistics and modeling skills

Requirements:

• A Bachelor's degree is required
• A minimum of 3 years of healthcare industry experience is required
• A minimum of 5 years of experience programming in SAS, SQL is required
• Strong organizational, analytical, multi-tasking, documentation, presentation, and problem-solving skills
• Ability to communicate effectively in both oral and written form to a widely diverse audience
• Strong business acumen and interpersonal skills
• Ability to identify relationships in data sets, determine key fields, and present findings unassisted
• A Master's degree in statistics, social science, public health, mathematics, economics, or epidemiology is preferred
• Experience using statistical methods to evaluate healthcare claims data and experience with reporting tools such as Tableau strongly preferred
• Familiarity with healthcare databases and coding systems (e.g., ICD, CPT, HCPCS)
• Experience/knowledge of Medicare and Medicaid data is preferred
• Experience with the VRDC database is preferred