Healthcare Claims Data Analyst

Posted 16hrs ago

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Healthcare claims analyst developing SQL and Python fraud, waste and abuse analytics for GDIT’s CMS anti-fraud programs. Identifying aberrant billing across billions of payer claims.

Responsibilities:

  • Support Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services anti-fraud activities
  • Develop fraud, waste and abuse analytics from concept to finished product at the Trusted Third Party
  • Work against a multi-billion-record claims warehouse assembled from public and private healthcare payers
  • Translate Partner and client requests into specifiable analytic questions
  • Determine what can and cannot be answered with available data and raise limitations early
  • Develop FWA analytics end to end using SQL and Python against billions of claim records
  • Test and refine analytics with FWA Subject Matter Experts
  • Separate genuine aberrancy from patterns explained by legitimate clinical practice, coverage policy or claim edits
  • Document methodology, assumptions and data lineage for reproducibility and incorporation into the analytic suite
  • Document findings and present results to internal stakeholders
  • Participate in Partner discussions to clarify analytic requirements
  • Manage several concurrent requests against firm deadlines in a queue driven by Partner and client demand
  • Work with Data Scientists, Business Intelligence Developers and FWA Subject Matter Experts on a fully remote multidisciplinary team

Requirements:

  • Bachelor's degree in a quantitative or health-related field, or equivalent hands-on experience
  • 4+ years writing SQL against large relational data, including CTEs, window functions and multi-table joins at scale
  • Performance awareness to understand why a query is slow
  • Working proficiency in Python for data analysis, producing clean and reproducible analysis code
  • Ability to turn an ambiguous request into a defined analytic question
  • Experience documenting analytic work so another person can reproduce it
  • Ability to come up to speed quickly in an unfamiliar data domain
  • Ability to explain analytic results clearly to non-analyst audiences
  • Accuracy, attention to detail and organizational discipline
  • US citizen or Permanent Resident
  • Must be able to obtain/maintain Public Trust
  • Work visa sponsorship will not be provided
  • Desired: experience with healthcare claims data and coding systems such as ICD-10, CPT, HCPCS, and DRG
  • Desired: exposure to fraud, waste and abuse, program integrity, payment integrity or utilization review
  • Desired: experience with Snowflake and SnowSQL or comparable cloud data warehouse
  • Desired: Git and collaborative code review practices
  • Desired: familiarity with payer coverage policy and claim edits such as NCCI
  • Desired: Tableau or other data visualization software

Benefits:

  • Competitive pay and benefits
  • Flexible work schedule
  • Medical plan options, some with Health Savings Accounts
  • Dental plan options
  • Vision plan
  • 401(k) plan with pre-tax and post-tax contributions and company match
  • Full flex work weeks where possible
  • Paid time off plans including vacation, sick, personal, holiday, parental, military, bereavement, and jury duty leave
  • Typically 15 days of paid leave per calendar year
  • 10 paid holidays per year
  • Up to 160 hours of paid family leave in a rolling 12-month period for eligible employees
  • Short- and long-term disability benefits
  • Life insurance
  • Accidental death and dismemberment insurance
  • Personal accident insurance
  • Critical illness insurance
  • Business travel and accident insurance