Remote Healthcare Strategy and Analytics Leader

UnitedHealth Group; Washington (District of Columbia); Hybrid; USD 113,000 - 193,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive benefits package

Equity stock purchase

401k contribution

Incentive and recognition programs

Job summary

UnitedHealth Group in the United States is seeking a Senior Consultant to support payment model implementation contracts, leading operations, analytics, and policy analysis. You will work with current staff to deliver high-quality deliverables and expand client relationships.

You’ll contribute to Medicare and Medicaid value-based payment initiatives, mentor staff, and ensure accuracy while handling large healthcare data.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of experience using SQL, R, Python, or SAS in a research, consulting, or business environment.
• 4+ years of experience working on federal health policy issues, including Medicare and Medicaid value-based payment, working in multiple areas serving as a subject matter expert
• Experience translating complex findings to non-technical audiences in both written and verbal contexts
• Experience successfully leading cross-functional project teams
• Experience working on implementing or evaluating value-based payment programs
• Experience working in Snowflake or Databricks environments

Responsibilities

• Lead multi-disciplinary project teams and workstreams, provide direction, prioritization and coordination across analysts, consultants, and client stakeholders to ensure successful delivery of strategic initiatives
• Engage, develop, and cultivate existing client relationships through policy consultation and thought leadership
• Lead payment model operations and technical assistance activities, including oversight of analytics to inform model operations, for value-based care initiatives
• Support the development of payment calculations, conduct financial and trend analysis, calculate quality metrics, and perform fast-paced ad-hoc analysis to quickly address client needs
• Mentor other staff to develop their technical and analytical problem-solving skills
• Maintain a consistently high degree of accuracy and attention to detail in all tasks
• Work effectively and cooperatively as a member of a project team
• Efficiently query large databases of healthcare claims and eligibility data
• Perform a broad range of quantitative analysis to inform the design, implementation, and evaluation of Medicare and Medicaid payment models

Skills

SQL

R

Python

SAS

Tools

Snowflake

Databricks

Job description

UnitedHealth Group in the United States is seeking a Senior Consultant to support payment model implementation contracts, leading operations, analytics, and policy analysis. You will work with current staff to deliver high-quality deliverables and expand client relationships.

You’ll contribute to Medicare and Medicaid value-based payment initiatives, mentor staff, and ensure accuracy while handling large healthcare data.