Ambulatory Quality & Performance Lead

MedStar Health; Rosedale (MD); On-site; USD 72,000 - 136,000; Full time

Job summary

MedStar Health is seeking an Ambulatory Quality Specialist to design and improve quality initiatives across the ambulatory network. You will extract, validate, analyze, and translate performance data into actionable insights for practice teams and physician leadership.

The Specialist supports gap closure efforts, performance improvement initiatives, regulatory readiness activities, and value-based care reporting across ambulatory practices.

Qualifications

• 3–4 years work experience in a healthcare clinical environment with proficiency working directly with electronic health records and quality or population health reporting tools.
• 3–4 years experience in ambulatory clinical settings and value-based/quality reporting programs preferred.
• One year of relevant professional-level work experience may be substituted for one year of required education.

Responsibilities

• Extracts, validates, and analyzes quality data from electronic health records, registries, payer portals, and other reporting systems.
• Develops maintains and distributes dashboards, scorecards and summary reports translating raw data into decision-ready insights for practice managers and leadership.
• Monitors updates to NCQA, CMS and payer measure specifications and assesses operational impact on workflows and reporting.
• Partners with ambulatory practice sites to design and implement targeted improvement plans and track outcomes.
• Assists with care gap closure initiatives and patient outreach strategies in collaboration with clinical staff.
• Prepares quality performance summaries and presents findings to physician leadership and quality committees.

Skills

Data extraction

Data translation

Ambulatory care

Communication

Organization

Collaboration

Power BI

Tableau

Education

Associate's degree In Healthcare Administration or related field

Bachelor's degree In Healthcare Administration or related field

Equivalent combination of education and relevant experience

Tools

Microsoft Word

Excel

Teams

Job description

MedStar Health is seeking an Ambulatory Quality Specialist to design and improve quality initiatives across the ambulatory network. You will extract, validate, analyze, and translate performance data into actionable insights for practice teams and physician leadership.

The Specialist supports gap closure efforts, performance improvement initiatives, regulatory readiness activities, and value-based care reporting across ambulatory practices.