Senior Quantitative Researcher, Federal Health Program Implementation and Evaluation
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Senior quantitative researcher designing and evaluating CMS alternative payment models for Commence, a data-driven healthcare solutions company. Developing methodologies, analytics, reports, and federal proposals.
Responsibilities:
- Design and execute implementation, operations, and evaluation tasks for CMS/CMMI alternative payment models
- Translate model design documents and policy goals into operational methodologies and specifications
- Use Medicare and Medicaid claims, enrollment, programmatic, survey, and census data
- Develop, refine, and implement value-based care methodologies
- Conduct participant screening and monitoring, beneficiary attribution, payment mechanisms, benchmarking, financial adjustments, risk adjustment, and quality-measure selection and scoring
- Design and conduct evaluations using monitoring methodologies, comparison groups, propensity score matching, synthetic controls, difference-in-differences, and event studies
- Partner with economists, data scientists, and engineers to conduct research and create prototypes
- Apply machine-learning-based methods on the Commence platform
- Develop methodology documents, evaluation reports, federal briefings, and actionable recommendations
- Design and write technical approaches for CMS/CMMI and other federal agency proposals
- Serve in key project roles and mentor junior researchers and analysts
- Manage teams, set priorities, coordinate tasks, engage clients and stakeholders, and deliver high-quality reports and products on time and within budget
Requirements:
- Ph.D. in economics, health services research, health policy, public health, or a related field with 4+ years of relevant experience; or a Master’s degree with 8+ years
- Hands-on experience implementing and/or evaluating CMS/CMMI alternative payment models
- Experience with both implementation and evaluation is preferred
- Working knowledge of at least two of: participant screening and monitoring, beneficiary attribution, payments and financial incentive design, quality measurement, comparison group design, and quasi-experimental evaluation methods
- Experience with Medicare and/or Medicaid administrative and claims data, including CCW, IDR, or VRDC
- Clear and concise writing for federal audiences
- Proposal-writing experience
- Experience with Databricks or other cloud analytics platforms and with Power BI, Tableau, or similar is preferred
- Proficiency in SAS, R, Python, or SQL
- Must be authorized to work in the U.S.
- Must be able to obtain and maintain a CMS-required background investigation (public trust)
- Ability to sit, read, work on a computer, and watch a computer screen for extended periods
- Ability to occasionally stand, walk, use hands and fingers, kneel, or crouch
Benefits:
- Remote work arrangement
- Occasional travel to the Baltimore/Washington, DC area for client meetings, orals, and team events
- Reasonable accommodations for individuals with disabilities
- Equal employment opportunity and nondiscrimination
- Extended hours may be needed around proposal deadlines and key deliverables
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