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Healthcare Data Analyst

Richardson, TX or Nashville, TN

Founded in 1993, MedeAnalytics is an innovation-focused company. Over the past three decades, we have worked tirelessly to reimagine healthcare through the power of data—and helped thousands of organizations achieve their potential along the way. Leveraging state-of-the-art analytics and data activation, MedeAnalytics delivers actionable insights that support payers, providers, employers, and public entities as they navigate the complex healthcare landscape. Using artificial intelligence and machine learning alongside the most advanced data orchestration in the industry, we empower organizations to optimize their resource allocation, experience superior patient outcomes, and achieve population health management goals.

And that’s just the beginning.

With a deep understanding of the complex challenges facing the healthcare industry, MedeAnalytics offers a comprehensive suite of solutions to address key areas such as:

  • Population Health Management: Gain insights into patient populations, identify at-risk individuals, and implement targeted interventions to improve health outcomes.
  • Value-Based Care: Optimize care delivery, reduce costs, and enhance patient satisfaction by aligning with value-based care models.
  • Revenue Cycle Management: Streamline revenue cycle processes, improve reimbursement rates, and minimize denials.
  • And more…

MedeAnalytics is committed to delivering cutting-edge technology and exceptional customer service. Our team is passionate about transforming healthcare and making a positive impact on the lives of patients.

MedeAnalytics is seeking a highly experienced Healthcare Data Analyst. This role reports to the Sr. Director of Professional Services acting as a liaison, facilitating collaboration between core Mede and Professional Services teams. This client facing position will guide healthcare payer and provider clients through extracting, analyzing, and interpreting large data sets to build various reports and dashboards. The analyst will provide clients with analytical consultative expertise and guidance to create metrics enabling measurements of progress towards initiative goals and ensuring the proper data is being collected for those metrics. Performing extensive data analysis, creating documentation of data issues, and developing implementation strategies for improving data quality and data standardization is a core function of our role.

The ideal candidate is not new to the data realm and has potentially worn multiple hats as an Analytics Engineer, Data Analyst, or Data Architect.  Must be proficient in SQL and have experience using a BI tool. This role requires strong data modeling, data mapping & integration skills coupled with current experience in B2B, EAI, ESB, web services, service-oriented architectures, and standardized terminology services. Epic certifications with a focus on analytical capabilities is strongly preferred. Having up-to-date knowledge and understanding of HEDIS & CMS STARs measures’ technical specifications is required.

Location Requirement: The candidate hired for this position must be based within a commutable distance from Nashville, TN, or Dallas, TX. This role may require periodic in-office attendance, and applicants not located within proximity to these areas may not be considered.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities: 

  • Lead the design, development, and ongoing support of clinical and financial integrated data models and reports used by provider and payer management in decision-making. This includes but is not limited to determining appropriate data transformations and governance strategies needed to provide trusted data sets for NCQA HEDIS & CMS STARs reporting and analytics.
  • Responsible for designing new data structures, mapping data from client source data to our data models, writing SQL/SQL like scripts to load and transfer the data to databases and performing data analysis with ETL.
  • Leads ideation sessions using lean principles to develop, document and analyze present state process maps and develop future state models.
  • Conduct, assess and profile data mappings to adhere to specific data structures, ensuring data quality is clearly defined to meet requested business use cases.
  • Design, create and maintain accurate and efficient data models.
  • Summarizes testing and validation results and be able to communicate and make recommendations on the best course for remediation.
  • Resourceful in arriving at solutions using existing or available resources.
  • Participate in agile work environment, completing sprint deliverables on time.
  • Contribute to our evolving development and testing standards and best practices.
  • Knowledge and experience in discrete data elements utilized in healthcare analytics.
  • Experience querying data, data interpretation and report generation using modern analytics tools (i.e., Power BI)
  • Work with product owners and business analysts on requirements and design.
  • Create and maintain comprehensive project documentation, using Mede’s standard technical templates, methodologies, and standards.
  • Consultative engagement with clients to assess and guide requirements specifications.
  • Conduct meetings, internal and with clients, to review integration progress, upcoming activities and deliverables required to fulfil the Integration project delivery.
  • Create and maintain data integrity by providing quality data profiling ensuring known constraints to operate in the Client’s environment.

Education, Experience, and Required Qualifications:

  • Bachelor’s Degree (Bachelor of Science, Computer Science or equivalent) strongly desired; advanced degree (MS or MBA) preferred.
  • 3+ year(s) of experience in working with MEDITECH Expanse, Cerner, Allscripts or Epic health information systems and/or 3 + years of relevant professional work experience with complex analysis background in healthcare data, HL7, C-CDA, HEDIS, CMS & STARS
  • Epic certifications with a focus on analytical capabilities is strongly preferred
  • CAQH certification and/or Certified Health Data Analyst (CHDA®) a plus
  • Expertise with standard healthcare terminologies and vocabularies (ICD, DRG, CPT, SNOMED CT, LOINC, NDC, Medispan, RxNorm, etc.)
  • 2+ years of Enterprise Software Packaged/SaaS Integration experience.
  • 2+ years of Enterprise Integration Tool (Informatica is preferred) experience.
  • 3+ years of database design and construction, ETL, and data modeling with an understanding of relational and dimensional data models
  • 3+ years of procedural programming and markup languages such as JAVA, JavaScript, Python, SQL, XML, and JSON
  • 2+ years managing big data (Data transfer, import/export, storage, performance, and security) and MS OLAP; additional experience with ETL framework, Linux and open-source technologies preferred.
  • 3+ years RDBMS and Cloud data platforms with preferred experience leveraging AWS, Mondrian, Oracle, Databricks, Vertica, Hadoop, Apache Spark, Mondrian & MongoDB
  • Familiar with data visualization tools, Data Lake, Git, and version control

Benefits Include:

  • Comprehensive Medical, Dental, and Vision Coverage – Effective the first of the month following your start date
  • Company-Paid Life & AD&D Insurance, plus Short-Term and Long-Term Disability (STD/LTD)
  • Company-Paid Employee Assistance Program (EAP) premium tier for your wellbeing
  • 401(k) Plan with company match
  • Paid Holidays and Paid Time Off (PTO) Accruals
  • Employee Referral Bonus Program
  • Professional Development Opportunities to support your growth
  • And More!

We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ethnicity, ancestry, religion, national origin, gender, sex, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital or parental status, disability, veteran status, or other class protected by applicable law. We are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace.

** At this time, we are unable to provide or transfer sponsorship; candidates must be authorized to work in the country where this position is located and cannot require sponsorship now or in the future.

At MedeAnalytics we deeply value each and every one of our committed, inspired and passionate team members. If you're looking to make an impact doing work that matters, you're in the right place. Help us shape the future of healthcare by joining #TeamMede.

MedeAnalytics does not utilize any outside vendors/agencies.  Please no unsolicited phone calls or invites.

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