Healthcare Data Analyst: Drive Cost & Utilization Insights

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

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.