Sr. Health Economics Analyst

UPMC Health Plan has an exciting opportunity for a full time Sr. Health Economics position.  This is a remote position working Monday through Friday daylight hours. Candidates must have an analytical background and experience with analytical programming. 

The Sr. Health Economics candidate will manage comprehensive analysis of data and information for various UPMC Health Plan products and programs. Health Economics Analyst will take a leadership role in the enhancement, development, documentation, and communication of identified variances and assessment of strategic opportunities. To successfully perform the role, the Health Economics Analyst must be highly professional and understand the causes of financial & clinical trends and anomalies. The Health Economics Analyst must use their knowledge and understanding of financial, clinical and other information generated by numerous sources to identify opportunities to improve clinical and financial performance. Furthermore, the position requires the ability to articulate these opportunities to internal and external audiences, implement the solutions, and track and monitor progress. These functions must be done while also weighing the practical considerations and potential barriers that need to be overcome in order to successfully implement new programs and processes.

Responsibilities:

• Produce customer-oriented reports that provide business context for the analysis and recommendations, requiring only moderate revision by the supervisor or analytics communications team.
• Routinely apply advanced data extraction and manipulation skills, complex analysis methods, statistical analysis, and data visualization tools to daily work.
• The quantitative analyst will also become increasingly familiar with basic medical claims terminology in order to properly interpret, through the application of quantitative analytics, the impact of care delivery and finance on Health Plan performance.
• Health Economics is a fluid, dynamic, fast-paced environment. The successful employee is comfortable with ambiguity in priorities and is able to maintain professionalism and a team-player attitude in the face of analytical challenges of moderate-to-high complexity.
• Demonstrate attention to detail and initiative in discovering errors in data or analyses, or determining the need for additional, follow-up analysis arising from the original assignment.
• The HEA Senior will consistently demonstrate a strong customer orientation, producing analyses on-time and communicating results effectively.
• Develop knowledge and expert understanding of all products and benefit designs of UPMC Health Plan insurance offerings, across all lines of business, to facilitate analysis.
• Routinely analyze financial and clinical results, including output from predictive models.
• Independently prioritize and manage 3-to-5 advanced quantitative and/or statistical analytics projects simultaneously, while receiving regular supervision.
• Independently, or in teams, produce a combination of quantitative financial analysis and clinical utilization analysis to produce new insights into drivers of Health Plan performance.