Healthcare Data Analyst

Option Care Health; Springfield (IL); On-site; USD 70,000 - 117,000; Full time

Job summary

Option Care Health is seeking a data analytics professional to provide value-added analysis of medical and pharmacy data, develop cost-benefit analyses, and support market, cost control, dispensing and purchasing projects.

This role requires a Bachelor’s in a relevant field, 3+ years in healthcare analytics, strong SQL and Office skills, and advanced programming with Python and R to deliver actionable insights.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field; Master’s degree preferred.
• Minimum 3 years in a healthcare analytics role.
• 3+ years of intermediate SQL and MS Office (Excel, Visio, PowerPoint) skills.

Responsibilities

• Develops and maintains a comprehensive understanding of business processes and industry practices.
• Investigates key business problems through quantitative analyses and interpretation of utilization and healthcare cost data.
• Translates specific business issues and questions into appropriate functional and analytic results.
• Provides recommendations to support critical business decisions through data analyses.
• Identifies and evaluates emerging trends for internal and external clients by analyzing client data.
• Monitors and studies operational, financial, clinical and utilization data to identify trends and communicate findings and recommendations to the leadership team.
• Develops and presents cost-benefit analyses of proposed programs and makes specific recommendations tied to the business goals of the Company.
• Analyzes and creates ad hoc analyses based on detailed data sets.
• Collaborates and communicates complex analyses and findings in a simple, concise, and understandable manner across various functional areas.

Skills

SQL

Excel

Visio

PowerPoint

Python

R

Healthcare data

Education

Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field

Master’s degree preferred

Tools

SQL

Python

R

Job description

Extraordinary Careers. Endless Possibilities.

With the nation’s largest home infusion provider, there is no limit to the growth of your career.

Option Care Health, Inc. is the largest independent home and alternate site infusion services provider in the United States.

With over 8,000 team members including 5,000 clinicians, we work compassionately to elevate standards of care for patients with acute and chronic conditions in all 50 states. Through our clinical leadership, expertise and national scale, Option Care Health is re‑imagining the infusion care experience for patients, customers and team members.

Join a company that is taking action to develop an inclusive, respectful, engaging and rewarding culture for all team members. At Option Care Health your voice is heard, your work is valued, and you’re empowered to grow. Cultivating a team with a variety of talents, backgrounds and perspectives makes us stronger, innovative, and more impactful. Our organization requires extraordinary people to provide extraordinary care, so we are investing in a culture that attracts, hires and retains the best and brightest talent in healthcare.

Job Description Summary:

Provides value-added analysis for the organization’s medical and pharmacy data and trends. Develops and maintains a thorough understanding of business processes at Option Care. Analyzes data to develop cost benefit analysis of proposed programs through collection and data analysis. Works on projects in market analysis, cost control analysis, dispensing, purchasing and other relevant analysis in relation to business needs.

Job Responsibilities (listed in order of importance and/or time spent)

• Develops and maintains a comprehensive understanding of business processes and industry practices.
• Investigates key business problems through quantitative analyses and interpretation of utilization and healthcare cost data.
• Translates specific business issues and questions into appropriate functional and analytic results.
• Provides recommendations to support critical business decisions through data analyses
• Identifies and evaluates emerging trends for internal and external clients by analyzing client data.
• Monitors and studies operational, financial, clinical and utilization data to identify trends and communicate findings and recommendations to the leadership team.
• Develops and presents cost-benefit analyses of proposed programs and makes specific recommendations tied to the business goals of the Company.
• Analyzes and creates ad hoc analyses based on detailed data sets.
• Collaborates and communicates complex analyses and findings in a simple, concise, and understandable manner across various functional areas.

Supervisory Responsibilities

• None

Basic Education and/or Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree in relevant field (Information Science, Computer Science, Actuarial Science Finance or Math); Master’s degree preferred.
• 3 years of minimum healthcare analytic role experience
• 3 years of intermediate SQL, Microsoft Office such as Excel (formulas, calculations, charts, graphs, pivot tables, etc.), Visio, and PowerPoint skills

Basic Qualifications

• Ability to meet frequently tight deadlines and to produce accurate appropriate analyses.
• Strong aptitude for quickly troubleshooting and identifying the cause of questionable results within data and analyses.
• Ability to work independently and effectively in a team.
• Understanding of health care terminology and knowledgeable/experienced with provider data, claims data (pharmacy & medical), lab data, financial and enrollment data.
• Possess outstanding oral and written communication skills
• Advanced programming skills (e.g., Python and R), model development, regression analysis, and proficiency with advanced analytics and AI tools.

This job description is to be used as a guide for accomplishing Company and department objectives, and only covers the primary functions and responsibilities of the position. It is in no way to be construed as an all-encompassing list of duties.

Due to state pay transparency laws, the full range for the position is below:

Salary to be determined by the applicant's education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity and alignment with market data.

Pay Range is $70,218.51-$117,008.35

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