Healthcare Policy Data Analyst

State of Connecticut - Office of Policy and Management; Hartford (CT); On-site; USD 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Professional growth

Work-life balance

Job summary

The State of Connecticut's Office of Policy and Management invites applications for a Research Analyst in the Health and Human Services Policy and Planning Division (HHSPPD). This full-time Hartford-based role supports healthcare benchmarks, data analysis, and policy development to improve cost growth, quality, and primary care spending in Connecticut.

You will evaluate preliminary data, assist with benchmark processes, and contribute to reports, dashboards, and meetings with stakeholders.

Qualifications

• Six years of professional experience in research, data analysis or economics.
• College coursework may substitute for experience (15 semester hours = 0.5 year, up to 4 years for a Bachelor's).
• Master's degree may substitute for one additional year of experience.

Responsibilities

• Evaluate and analyze preliminary data for healthcare benchmarks (cost growth, hospital payment growth, quality benchmarks and primary care spending target).
• Provide general support for hospital price growth benchmark process, including cost growth performance plans, and data requirements.
• Support healthcare quality benchmark functions by assessing national standards, candidate measures, population health or social determinants of health factors and suggesting associated updates to Connecticut's quality benchmark approach.
• Research emerging national healthcare quality measures, value-based payment models, and best practices for improving healthcare quality, minimizing healthcare cost growth, increasing spending on primary care, and reducing hospital payment growth in Connecticut.

Skills

Research methods

Statistics

Interpersonal skills

Oral & written communication

Education

Bachelor's degree

Master's degree

Tools

Microsoft Office

Job description

The State of Connecticut's Office of Policy and Management invites applications for a Research Analyst in the Health and Human Services Policy and Planning Division (HHSPPD). This full-time Hartford-based role supports healthcare benchmarks, data analysis, and policy development to improve cost growth, quality, and primary care spending in Connecticut.

You will evaluate preliminary data, assist with benchmark processes, and contribute to reports, dashboards, and meetings with stakeholders.