Remote Senior Medicaid Data & Policy Consultant

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

Job summary

UnitedHealth Group seeks a Senior Consultant to support Medicaid data and CMS LEAD model work. This remote-friendly role requires deep expertise in T-MSIS data, SQL, and data integration, with strong policy-to-data translation.

You will work on attribution, payments and quality measurement, collaborating across policy leads and analysts. The position emphasizes independent work, rigorous documentation, and timely delivery in a fast-paced client-service environment.

Qualifications

• Master's or higher in public health, public policy, health services research, economics, statistics, epidemiology, data science or related field; 6+ years of experience.
• 2+ years of direct experience with T-MSIS data.
• Experience with IDR data in Snowflake or Databricks environments.
• Ability to translate policy into data specs and code for attribution, payment and quality measures.

Responsibilities

• Analyze Medicaid data including T-MSIS to support LEAD model operations.
• Translate policy into data specifications, business rules and code.
• Write and maintain SQL; use Python where appropriate.
• Assess data quality and differences across states for model calculations.
• Link Medicaid data with Medicare sources to support methodology.
• Document specifications, code, data sources and QA checks.
• Perform QA of analytic outputs and reconcile results.
• Summarize findings for technical and non-technical audiences.

Skills

SQL proficiency

Python

Data storytelling

Strong communication

Education

Master's or higher in public health or related field

Bachelor's degree in a relevant field

Tools

SQL

Python

Snowflake

Databricks

Job description

UnitedHealth Group seeks a Senior Consultant to support Medicaid data and CMS LEAD model work. This remote-friendly role requires deep expertise in T-MSIS data, SQL, and data integration, with strong policy-to-data translation.

You will work on attribution, payments and quality measurement, collaborating across policy leads and analysts. The position emphasizes independent work, rigorous documentation, and timely delivery in a fast-paced client-service environment.