Remote Principal Quantitative Researcher, Federal Health APM

DOMA Technologies, LLC; Washington (District of Columbia); Remote; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Commence, headquartered in Virginia Beach, VA, seeks a Principal Quantitative Researcher to lead CMS/CMMI monitoring for alternative payment models and to drive analytics across the Commence platform. This remote role offers collaboration with data science and engineering teams to deliver dashboards, reports, and insights that inform health policy and program performance.

You will advance monitoring frameworks, manage client engagements, and mentor junior staff while ensuring timely,

Qualifications

• Ph.D. in economics, health services research, health policy, public health, or a related field with 9+ years of relevant experience; or a Master’s degree with 13+ years.
• Hands-on experience monitoring CMS/CMMI alternative payment models.
• Working knowledge of APM and value-based care mechanics: beneficiary attribution, quality scoring, capitated payments, bundled payments, financial incentives, benchmarking, risk adjustment.
• Experience with Medicare and/or Medicaid administrative and claims data (e.g., CCW, IDR, VRDC).
• Clear and concise writing for federal audiences; proposal-writing experience.

Responsibilities

• Lead the translation of model design documents and participation agreements into monitoring specifications using Medicare claims, enrollment, and participant-reported data.
• Design monitoring frameworks for CMMI models: logic models, measures, data sources, benchmarks, analytic methods, and reporting.
• Detect and investigate unintended consequences such as risk selection, coding intensity, care stinting, and shifts in referral or site-of-care patterns.
• Partner with data scientists and engineers to build dashboards, automated reporting, and ML-based anomaly detection and early-warning signals on the Commence platform.
• Lead the write-up of monitoring reports, briefings, and risk summaries for CMMI model teams, turning findings into clear, actionable recommendations
• Lead the design and write up of technical approaches for CMS/CMMI and other federal agency proposals and serve in key project roles.
• Lead the identification and implementation of monitoring methods to our quality measurement and payment incentive work for CMS and state partners; mentor junior researchers and analysts.
• Effectively manage teams, set priorities, coordinate tasks, engage clients and stakeholders, and ensure high-quality reports and products are delivered on time and within budget.

Skills

CMS/CMMI monitoring

Data analysis

Leadership

Education

Ph.D. in economics/health policy/related field

Master’s degree in a related field

Tools

Databricks

Power BI

Tableau

SAS

R

Python

SQL

Job description

Commence, headquartered in Virginia Beach, VA, seeks a Principal Quantitative Researcher to lead CMS/CMMI monitoring for alternative payment models and to drive analytics across the Commence platform. This remote role offers collaboration with data science and engineering teams to deliver dashboards, reports, and insights that inform health policy and program performance.

You will advance monitoring frameworks, manage client engagements, and mentor junior staff while ensuring timely,