Senior Analyst - Policy and Advocacy

Ascension Health; United States; Remote; USD 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare organization is seeking a Senior Analyst to develop analytics supporting federal and state healthcare policies. This remote position requires strong SQL skills and familiarity with healthcare policy. The ideal candidate will assess financial impacts of proposed regulations and provide insights to stakeholders, ensuring improved healthcare delivery and access.

Benefits

Paid time off (PTO)

Health insurance options

Retirement benefits

Tuition reimbursement

Qualifications

• Master’s degree in public policy, healthcare administration, or public health preferred.
• 3 years of healthcare or related fiscal policy experience preferred.
• Experience using cloud-based data storage platforms is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Evaluate volume and financial impacts related to proposed policies.
• Support stakeholders with advanced analyses and consulting.
• Interpret outliers, patterns, and trends for reports to senior management.

Skills

Proficiency in SQL

Strong written and verbal communication skills

Comfortable manipulating large datasets

Experience in healthcare policy

Education

Master’s degree in public policy or healthcare administration

High school diploma or GED with 2 years experience

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Python

R

Google Cloud Platform

Job description

Details

• Department: Ascension Data Science Institute

• Schedule: Full time

• Location: Remote

Benefits

Paid time off (PTO)

Various health insurance options & wellness plans

Retirement benefits including employer match plans

Long-term & short-term disability

Employee assistance programs (EAP)

Parental leave & adoption assistance

Tuition reimbursement

Ways to give back to your community

Benefit options and eligibility vary by position. Compensation varies based on factors including, but not limited to, experience, skills, education, performance and salary range at the time of the offer.

Responsibilities

The Ascension Data Sciences Institute (ADSI) was created in July 2019 with the mission of supporting Ascension in achieving its Quadruple Aim with uniquely skilled, high-performing associates who develop analyses, models and applications to enable Ascension in providing higher value healthcare and making strategic decisions. ADSI comprises domains addressing 1) Clinical quality and patient safety; 2) Strategic Operations and Financial Analytics; 3) Actuarial and Managed Care Analytics; 4) Registry Abstraction Healthcare Solutions; and 5) Healthcare Data Intelligence. We recognize that the healthcare environment is a complex ecosystem of rapidly evolving clinical and economic practices that affect patient and provider experience and demands increasingly sophisticated and complex measurement. Our objective is for advanced analytics and data science to play a critical and foundational role in the transformation of care delivery, quality, and financial outcomes to enable our organization’s competitive advantage.

In this highly visible role, you will contribute to the development of analytics to support Ascension’s Advocacy department through data-driven insights and advisory for critical federal and state legislation impacting healthcare delivery and access. Example subject areas may include: site neutral payment reform, fiscal policy proposals, and annual regulatory updates to public insurance programs.

The senior analyst will be responsible for:

• Evaluating volume and financial impacts to the health system related to proposed policies and/or policy changes.

• Supporting stakeholders with advanced analyses and consulting, with a focus on policy implications related to healthcare services access and reimbursement across Ascension sites of care.

• Serving as key resource/SME in collection and analysis of data from multiple sources for the development of reports, including querying relational databases, performing complex analyses, and contextualizing data across billing, clinical, and claims data repositories and external datasets.

• Interpreting outliers, patterns, and trends, and compiling recommendations in ad hoc and standard reports/presentations to senior management.

• Developing innovative methodologies for analyzing complex problems, and designing streamlined reporting for best-in-class data analytics and advisory.

• Providing leadership, orientation, training, coaching, and mentoring to staff on how to access reports and interpret the data.

• Making recommendations for continuous improvement for all data, reports, presentations, and other shared materials.

• Overseeing the provision of ad hoc management reports, including design, build, and delivery.

Requirements

Education:

• High school diploma/GED with 2 years of experience, or Associate's degree, or Bachelor's degree required.

Work Experience:

• 3 years of experience preferred.

Additional Preferences

• 3 years of experience (or applicable education) preferred.

• Master’s degree or higher in public policy, healthcare administration, healthcare economics or public health preferred

• Experience in healthcare policy or related fiscal policy preferred. Large health systems experience a plus.

• Proficiency in SQL. Prior use of other programming languages (Python, R) is a plus.

• Comfortable manipulating and synthesizing very large datasets.

• Strong written and verbal communication skills.

• Excellent organizational skills.

• Demonstrated commitment to continuous learning.

• Experience using cloud-based data storage platforms (Google Cloud Platform, Salesforce Cloud Data Platform, etc.) a plus.

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Why Join Our Team

Ascension associates are key to our commitment of transforming healthcare and providing care to all, especially those most in need. Join us and help us drive impact through reimagining how we can deliver a people-centered healthcare experience and creating the solutions to do it. Explore career opportunities across our ministry locations and within our corporate headquarters.

Ascension is a leading non-profit, faith-based national health system made up of over 134,000 associates and 2,600 sites of care, including more than 140 hospitals and 40 senior living communities in 19 states.

Our Mission, Vision and Values encompass everything we do at Ascension. Every associate is empowered to give back, volunteer and make a positive impact in their community. Ascension careers are more than jobs; they are opportunities to enhance your life and the lives of the people around you.

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