Strategic Medical Cost Analytics Lead

Highmark Health; Georgia; On-site; USD 79,000 - 127,000; Full time

Job summary

Highmark Inc. is seeking a cost analytics professional to transform large healthcare data into strategic insights that clearly explain medical cost trends to executives.

You will use SAS/SQL/R and visualization tools to extract, summarize and present analytics, partner with business teams, and drive cost improvement programs across the organization. The ideal candidate has 5 years of healthcare analytics experience, strong communication skills, and the ability to deliver executive-ready

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Business, Health, Economics, Mathematics/Actuarial Sciences or related area.
• 5 years of Medical Economics, Healthcare Analytics, Informatics and/or Actuarial Services in the health care payer sector.
• Master's degree in Business, Health, Economics, Mathematics/Actuarial Sciences or related area
• Strong coding background (R, R Shiny, Python, SQL) and experience building dashboards in Tableau, Power BI, or R Shiny.

Responsibilities

• Provide strategic/tactical insights into emerging medical cost trends; develop executive-ready presentations.
• Proficiency to extract, summarize and analyze large datasets via SAS, SQL or other similar tools.
• Provide business areas with opportunity assessments of their strategic medical cost programs; coordinate savings projections and post-implementation savings measurements.
• Leverage analytical experience to drive independent medical cost analytics; present cost drivers to key business partners.
• Strong communication skills to present clear, concise analytics to stakeholders.
• Work in a matrixed environment; partner with other departments to develop the full analytical story.
• Other duties as assigned or requested.

Skills

Analytical ability

Cross-functional collaboration

Healthcare analytics

Data storytelling

Education

Bachelor's degree in Business/Health/Economics/Math

Master's degree in related area

Tools

SAS

SQL

R

Tableau

Job description

Highmark Inc. is seeking a cost analytics professional to transform large healthcare data into strategic insights that clearly explain medical cost trends to executives.

You will use SAS/SQL/R and visualization tools to extract, summarize and present analytics, partner with business teams, and drive cost improvement programs across the organization. The ideal candidate has 5 years of healthcare analytics experience, strong communication skills, and the ability to deliver executive-ready