Medicaid Data Insights Specialist

AlphaX; United States; Remote; USD 85,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job summary

AlphaGov seeks a Medicaid Data & Analytics Specialist to support analysis of program performance, utilization, costs, access, quality, eligibility, or enrollment.

You will turn Medicaid data into actionable insights and practical recommendations, working with data analysts, researchers, and informatics professionals. Responsibilities include cleaning data, developing performance measures, dashboards, and clear presentation to stakeholders while ensuring privacy and security compliance.

Qualifications

• Experience analyzing Medicaid or closely related healthcare data.
• Strong analytical skills and attention to data quality.
• Proficiency with tools such as Excel, SQL, SAS, R, Python, Power BI, or Tableau; proficiency in every tool is not required.
• Ability to communicate findings clearly and connect them to program decisions.
• Experience documenting analytical work so others can understand and review it.

Responsibilities

• Analyze Medicaid claims, encounter, enrollment, eligibility, provider, or program data.
• Assess utilization, expenditures, access to care, and program outcomes.
• Clean, validate, and document datasets.
• Develop performance measures, dashboards, and recurring reports.
• Identify trends, data quality issues, and opportunities for improvement.
• Support program evaluation and operational analysis.
• Explain analytical methods, assumptions, and limitations.
• Present findings clearly to technical and nontechnical stakeholders.
• Follow applicable privacy, security, and data-handling requirements.

Skills

Medicaid data analysis

Data quality

Excel

SQL

SAS

R

Python

Power BI

Tableau

Tools

Excel

SQL

SAS

R

Python

Power BI

Tableau

Job description

AlphaGov seeks a Medicaid Data & Analytics Specialist to support analysis of program performance, utilization, costs, access, quality, eligibility, or enrollment.

You will turn Medicaid data into actionable insights and practical recommendations, working with data analysts, researchers, and informatics professionals. Responsibilities include cleaning data, developing performance measures, dashboards, and clear presentation to stakeholders while ensuring privacy and security compliance.