Medical Informatics Analyst, Consultant

Your Role

The Medi-Cal Analytics team supports the Medi-Cal Business Unit. The Medical Informatics Analyst - Consultant will report to the Senior Manager, Medical Informatics. In this role you will support compliance & regulatory reporting, mandated projects, and clinical key indicators for Medi-Cal and Dual -Special Need Program (D-SNP).

Your Work

In this role, you will:

Conduct independent analysis of high complexity under minimal supervision and guidance

Develop analytical methods so that they may be subsequently delegated for production to Medical Informatics Analysts at lower levels

Produce analysis of high complexity under the guidance and direction of Medical Informatics Analyst V, supervisor, or manager

Develop documentation and create and execute workplans for analyses of high complexity. Workplans may coordinate the activities of Medical Informatics Analysts at lower levels and may involve collaboration with more than one team

Provide training and mentoring for team members on best practices for analysis and reporting; assist in the development of supplemental analytic training tools and materials; conducts formal training sessions for lower-level analysts and analysts in other departments

Assist in identifying systems and operational problems and recommend solutions and changes to streamline procedures for more effective reporting

Support design, implementation and maintenance of data logic and processes to support Medi-Cal data integration into health data technology platform

Responsible for creating system QA processes and documentation

Prepare complex reports and studies for a variety of uses including cost of health care analysis, quality improvement, enhancing operations and addressing identified issues

Utilize programming software to efficiently develop process or tools to analyze relevant data from various sources (e.g., claims, membership, provider, financial, operation and other ancillary data sources), interpret and present analytic results for all ad hoc and ongoing reporting requests

Telecommuting within normal commuting distance of the office is permitted but must come to the office when needed

Your Knowledge and Experience

Master’s degree in Public Health, Business Administration, Computer Science, Health Services Research, or similar

Must be able to develop and modify SQL and SAS scripts and be able to wrangle large datasets, join multiple datasets

Strong working experience in SAS

7 years of experience as a Medical Informatics Analyst – Consultant, Business Intelligence Developer, Application Support Engineer, Software Engineer, or other similar role

5 years of experience in healthcare (managed care, academic, or government payer)

Ability to work with a variety of clinical coding systems

Experience with Managed Care, Medi-Cal/Medicaid, and/or coordination of Care

Experience preparing complex reports and studies for a variety of use cases, including cost of health care analysis, quality improvement, enhancing operations and addressing identified issues

Practical knowledge of agile and project management skills

Excellent verbal and written communication and presentation skills

Professional