Data Scientist, Healthcare Economics and Value Based Care

United Software Group Inc is seeking a Data Scientist to improve the quality, credibility, and usefulness of client reporting in healthcare economics and value-based care. The role focuses on developing and validating analytics methodologies, translating findings into client-facing reports, documenting results, and partnering with data engineering and client-facing teams.

Responsibilities:

• Design and improve the analytics behind client reporting, including cost of care trend, utilization, program impact, and return on investment
• Build and validate measurement methodology such as risk adjustment, cohort construction, attribution logic, and comparison group design
• Turn analytic output into reporting that a client audience can read and trust, partnering with client facing teams on narrative and presentation
• Document methodology so results can be explained, audited, and reproduced
• Partner with data engineering and the data architect on the models and data assets reporting depends on
• Investigate anomalies and questions raised by clients or internal stakeholders and close them with evidence

Requirements:

• 5 or more years of analytics or data science experience in healthcare, with direct exposure to healthcare economics, actuarial analytics, or value based care measurement
• Strong SQL plus Python or R for analysis and modeling
• Working knowledge of medical and pharmacy claims data, including standard code sets and common data quality pitfalls
• Demonstrated ability to explain methodology and findings to non-technical audiences
• Experience with risk adjustment models, quality measure sets, or shared savings and total cost of care programs
• Experience building client facing or externally published reporting
• Experience working in Snowflake and with modern BI tooling