Product Manager Data Analyst

Akash Nehal Desai

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Lexington, SC 29072

************@*****.*** 803-***-****

EDUCATION

August 2019- May 2021 University of South Carolina Master of Health Administration

August 2015- June 2019 University of South Carolina Bachelor of Arts Major in Public Health/

Minor in Business Administration

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

August 2024 - Present Greenway Health

Associate Product Manager - Compliance & Regulatory

● Spearhead compliance and regulatory efforts, ensuring product alignment with evolving mandates and statutes, with a primary focus on ONC (ASTP) federal regulations

Regulatory efforts include reaching compliance for HTI proposed and final rules, USCDI data element sets and real world testing for data elements as well as ensuring correct code sets and functional design documents meet regulatory requirements across all products

Successfully led HTI-1 compliance efforts to meet reporting and functionality requirements before prescribed timelines

● Drive adherence to CMS and quality standards, including EcQMS and MIPS, maintaining robust compliance across product lines while validating and confirming workflows for MIPS measures to ensure accuracy and efficiency.

November 2023 - August 2024 Lexington Medical Center Data Analyst - Ambulatory Quality

● Cleaned, analyzed and presented data to upper management

Maintained CMS, HEDIS and other regulatory agency reporting for ambulatory care as well as payor based incentive programs such as MSSP

Daily use of Epic (completing EpicCare Ambulatory certification) and Midas products

Utilized Spotfire, Excel, and Tableau among other data cleansing, analysis and visualization tools to aid in maintaining regular dashboards for internal and external reporting purposes

● Worked with a variety of healthcare professionals from coordinators and outcomes analysts to clinical staff

Audited data from external reporting agencies provided to clinical leadership to ensure accuracy and identify discrepancies

2021-2024 Traddoo

Director of Analytics/COO

● Managed a team of 3 middle managers with employees underneath them in a startup environment

Analyzed customer satisfaction scores and develop systems and workflows to aid in management and completion of team goals

Created reports and projections for growth and management of operations 2019-2021 Lexington Medical Center

Graduate Assistant in Anesthesia/Perioperative Services Department

● Implemented process improvement projects such as data analytics based on case mix and surgeon utilization to reduce waste in the sterile processing department

Decreased waste in terms of items being needed during surgery

■ Adding more items to the storage areas staged directly outside cluster of operating rooms

■ Streamlining preference cards to reduce inclusion of unnecessary items

Conducted utilization studies such as physician block and room utilization from raw data to maximize productivity

■ Blocks that were ineffectively used repurposed and given to other surgeons/surgery groups

2018-2019 University of South Carolina

Undergraduate Research Assistant in Health Services, Policy and Management Department

• Worked on publication (pending) regarding early-term elective delivery policies

o Identified Medicaid non-reimbursement for medically unnecessary early term deliveries as most effective policy to date in decreasing elective early-term delivery rates

o Created figures and research materials and presented findings at University research event

• Created mental health report for state of South Carolina o Identified target groups afflicted with various mental health quality metrics available through public databases

o Utilized SAS and Tableau, and SQL based RBDMS for data analysis and reporting

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