Healthcare Economics Analyst – Remote

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The Population Health (PH) team within Healthcare Economics – Medical Informatics is looking for a health economics professional to join the team as a Healthcare Economics Analyst role provides analytic support for complex and cross team analyses of population health strategies within the commercial, fully insured business, as well as the Medicare Advantage and Medicaid business. The successful candidate will act as a contributor in the development, deployment, and measurement of tactical and strategic plans of action related to the PH team’s two core functions: 1) develop, deploy, and support state-of-the-art predictive algorithms to identify right member, right time, and right program, and 2) evaluate the effectiveness, efficacy and efficiency of our clinical programs using rigorous methods and advanced statistics.

You’ll enjoy the flexibility to work remotely * from anywhere within the U.S. as you take on some tough challenges.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Provide analytic support in the determination, demonstration, and communication of the value of population health and clinical affordability interventions designed to improve health outcomes, reduce health disparities, and increase the cost benefit of health care
• Own end-to-end production processes related to population health and clinical programs, including monthly identification/stratification models, KPI’s, leading indicator, and total cost of care reporting, and outcome measurement
• Investigate non-standard requests and problems to produce ad-hoc reporting based on customer specifications
• Translate research findings into actionable information to support business decisions

You’ll be rewarded and recognized for your performance in an environment that will challenge you and give you clear direction on what it takes to succeed in your role as well as provide development for other roles you may be interested in.

Required Qualifications:

• BA/BS degree
• 2+ years of hands-on experience using two or more of the following: SQL, Python, or SAS for data extraction, transformation, and statistical analysis
• 2+ years of experience in the healthcare industry (payer, provider, pharmaceutical, etc.)
• 2+ years of experience with data reporting and analysis

Preferred Qualifications:

• MA/MS within epidemiology, biostatistics, pharmacoeconomics, health services research, health economics, public health, economics, or a related/relevant discipline
• Basic understanding of epidemiologic, pharmacoeconomic, and/or health services research design and methods, including the various methods of economic evaluation
• Basic understanding of predictive analytics and data science with an ability to derive value from data and information
• Basic understanding in the application of advanced statistics to evaluate economic, clinical, and humanistic outcomes
• Familiarity with core concepts such as data warehousing, SQL querying, and working within Snowflake’s cloud-based architecture
• Comfortable working with datasets exceeding 1 million records, including data cleansing, transformation, and analysis to support healthcare economics and outcomes research
• Demonstrated excellent written and oral communications skills

*All employees working remotely will be required to adhere to UnitedHealth Group’s Telecommuter Policy

Pay is based on several factors including but not limited to local labor markets, education, work experience, certifications, etc. In addition to your salary, we offer benefits such as, a comprehensive benefits package, incentive and recognition programs, equity stock purchase and 401k contribution (all benefits are subject to eligibility requirements). No matter where or when you begin a career with us, you’ll find a far-reaching choice of benefits and incentives. The salary for this role will range from $58,800 to $105,000 annually based on full-time employment. We comply with all minimum wage laws as applicable.

Application Deadline: This will be posted for a minimum of 2 business days or until a sufficient candidate pool has been collected. Job posting may come down early due to volume of applicants.

At UnitedHealth Group, our mission is to help people live healthier lives and make the health system work better for everyone. We believe everyone–of every race, gender, sexuality, age, location and income–deserves the opportunity to live their healthiest life. Today, however, there are still far too many barriers to good health which are disproportionately experienced by people of color, historically marginalized groups and those with lower incomes. We are committed to mitigating our impact on the environment and enabling and delivering equitable care that addresses health disparities and improves health outcomes – an enterprise priority reflected in our mission.

UnitedHealth Group is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer under applicable law and qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, national origin, religion, age, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, or protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by local, state, or federal laws, rules, or regulations. 

UnitedHealth Group is a drug-free workplace. Candidates are required to pass a drug test before beginning employment.