Actuary Associate Level l

Essen Medical Associates; New York (NY); On-site; USD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Essen Medical Associates is looking for an Actuary Associate Level I to join their team in New York. The successful candidate will perform various actuarial functions including data analysis, model development, and reporting.

Responsibilities include project management on medical initiatives, analyzing utilization trends, and collaborating with multiple departments for insights. Candidates should have a Bachelor’s degree in Statistics or Math, and at least 3 years of relevant experience. A salary range of $120,000-$150,000 annually is offered.

Qualifications

• 3+ years experience at health plans and/or providers.
• Experience in actuarial and/or analytics departments.
• Understanding of healthcare concepts, VBP, ACO REACH, Medicare, Medicaid.

Responsibilities

• Serves as project manager on medical initiatives.
• Quantify the impact of population and risk score changes.
• Perform trends analysis on utilization and costs.

Skills

Advanced skills in Excel

SQL

SAS

Critical thinking

Data visualization

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Statistics, Math or related field

Job description

Overview

Company Overview: Essen Health Care is a growing community healthcare network provides high quality, compassionate, and accessible medical care to some of the most vulnerable and under-served residents of New York State. Guided by a ‘population health’ model of care, Essen has five integrated clinical divisions offering services in primary & specialty offices, urgent care centers, and nursing homes, as well as house calls for home bound patients; all clinical services are also offered via telehealth. Our Care Management division supports patient-centered care through care coordination, complex care management and helping address health-related social needs.

Founded in 1999, Essen provides care in all five boroughs of New York City, with a primary focus in the Bronx. Staffed by over 300 primary and specialty care physicians and advanced clinicians, Essen Health Care is one of the largest, most comprehensive private medical groups in New York City. Essen maintains a Clinical Information Services team that maintains our enterprise-wide electronic medical record system, data repository, clinical analytics and population health capabilities. Our Community Services teams creates and sustains relationship with community organizations and agencies and health plans.

Essen is dedicated to ensuring the quality of care for all patients and has been designated ‘Level 3 Patient Centered Medical Home’ by the National Committee for Quality Assurance. Essen has won awards for its patient care innovations and recently launched Intention Health Ventures to develop and commercialize our technology innovations

Job Summary

Position Title: Actuary Associate Level l

Job Summary: Essen Health Care has a posiition open for an Actuary Associate Level l who will be responsible for performing various actuarial functions, such as analysing data, developing and maintaining models, and preparing reports.

Responsibilities

• Serves as project manager on medical initiatives, tracking medical and financial experience
• Quantify the impact of the population, risk scores and rates changes, and savings impacts due to the medical initiatives
• Perform trends analysis to understand the changes of the utilization and costs per units
• Identify medical opportunities and provide programming/analysis/reporting for cohorts of members
• Partner with Operations, Medical, IT and Business leaders to gather requirements and provide with analysis updates

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Statistics, Math or related field is required
• +3 years experience at health plans and/or providers
• Experience at actuarial and/or analytics departments
• Understand healthcare concepts, VBP, ACO REACH, Medicare, Medicaid, reconciliations, revenue cycles
• Have previous working experience with healthcare data
• Demonstrate critical thinking and express ideas to not technical people
• Advanced skills in Excel and SQL, basic skills in SAS
• Experience with reporting and data visualization

Salary- $120,000- $150,000 annually

Equal Opportunity Employer

Essen Health Care is proud to be an equal opportunity employer, and we seek candidates who desire to work in and serve an ethnically-diverse population.