Analyst, Health Plan Risk & Quality Reporting (Remote in New Mexico)

Molina Healthcare, Inc.; United States; Remote; USD 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Molina Healthcare, Inc. is seeking a Health Data Analyst to provide analyst support for health plan risk and quality reporting activities.

You will design and develop custom health plan reports to support local interventions, provider outreach, and track outcomes of initiatives related to HEDIS across Medicaid, Medicare, Marketplace and MMP. You will educate users on how to use reports related to risk and quality/HEDIS and assist with research, development and completion of quality improvement

Qualifications

• 2+ years of experience mapping, scrubbing, scrapping, and cleaning data with HEDIS/risk adjustment focus
• Analytical mindset with strong attention to detail
• Experience with SQL, Databricks SQL and Power BI; Azure/AWS/Hadoop familiarity welcomed

Responsibilities

• Captures and documents health plan quality reporting requirements, builds custom reports, and educates health plan users on how to use reports.
• Builds intervention strategy reporting for risk and quality interventions and measures gap closure.
• Creates ad hoc quality reports to track HEDIS performance and monitor supplemental data.
• Develops QA health plan reports related to Risk and Quality/HEDIS for Medicaid, Marketplace and Medicare/MMP.
• Generates reports on health plan data including medical claims, pharmacy, lab and HEDIS rates.
• Collaborates with the national risk and quality team on testing of pre-production reporting.
• Calculates and tracks gap closure and intervention outcomes for the assigned health plan.
• Performs data analysis in an agile environment to derive meaningful insights from large data sets.
• Performs root-cause analysis for data issues and logic/source changes.
• Represents as HEDIS subject matter expert to support performance improvement on underperforming measures

Skills

HEDIS analytics

Data cleaning

Data analysis

Attention to detail

Tools

Microsoft T-SQL

Databricks SQL

Power BI

Microsoft Excel

Azure

AWS

Hadoop

Job description

Job Summary

Provides analyst support for health plan risk and quality reporting activities. Designs and develops custom health plan reports to support local interventions, provider outreach, and tracks outcomes of initiatives. Educates users on how to use reports related to risk and quality/Healthcare Effectiveness Data and Information Set (HEDIS) for Medicaid, Medicare, Marketplace and Medicare/Medicare-Medicaid Plan (MMP). Assists with research, development, and completion of special quality performance improvement projects including root-cause analysis.

Essential Job Duties

• Captures and documents health plan quality reporting requirements, builds custom reports, and educates health plan users on how to use reports.
• Builds intervention strategy reporting for the risk and quality interventions and measures gap closure.
• Builds ad hoc quality reports as requested to track HEDIS performance and supplemental data monitoring.
• Develops quality assurance (QA) custom health plan reports related to Risk and Quality/HEDIS for Medicaid, Marketplace and Medicare/MMP.
• Develops custom health plan reports related to managed care data including medical claims, pharmacy, lab and HEDIS rates.
• Collaborates with the national risk and quality team on testing of pre-production reporting for assigned health plan.
• Calculates and tracks gap closure and intervention outcome reporting for the assigned health plan.
• Works in an agile business environment to derive meaningful information out of complex and large organizational data sets through data analysis, data mining, verification, scrubbing, and root-cause analysis.
• Conducts root-cause analysis for business data issues.
• Analyzes data sets and trends for anomalies, outliers, trend changes, and opportunities, using databricks Structured Query Language (SQL), PowerBi, Microsoft Excel, and techniques to determine significance and relevance.
• Assists with research, development and completion of special quality-related projects as requested by various internal departments, or in support of requests from regulatory agencies, contracting agencies, or other external organizations.
• Represents as a key partner to assist with testing changes in the Datawarehouse platform and performs transparent upgrades to reporting modules to ensure no impact to the end users.
• Conducts preliminary and post-impact analyses for any logic and source code changes for data and reporting module - keeping other variables as constant that are not of focus.
• Represents as a HEDIS subject matter expert, and supports health plan improve performance on underperforming quality measures.

Required Qualifications

• At least 2 years of experience mapping, scrubbing, scrapping, and cleaning data, and analysis experience related to HEDIS and/or risk adjustment, and 1 year of experience in a managed care organization, or equivalent combination of relevant education and experience.
• Analytical mindset with excellent attention to detail.
• Experience in working with complex data to include quantifying, measuring, and analyzing financial/performance management and utilization metrics.
• Experience working with Microsoft T-SQL, Databricks SQL and Power BI.
• Experience writing complex SQL queries, functions, procedures and data design.
• Experience with Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services (AWS), or Hadoop.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment.
• Strong business acumen with the ability to connect data insights to strategic goals.
• Self-starter with a continuous improvement mindset.
• Effective verbal and written communication skills.
• Microsoft Office suite (including advanced Excel), and applicable software programs proficiency.

Preferred Qualifications

• Certified Professional in Healthcare Quality (CPHQ).
• Certified HEDIS Compliance Auditor (CHCA).
• Registered Nurse. If licensed, license must be active and unrestricted in state of practice.

Molina Healthcare offers a competitive benefits and compensation package. Molina Healthcare is an Equal Opportunity Employer (EOE) M/F/D/V