Data analyst Telecommute

Title: Data analyst

Position: Contract

Work Location: Remote

Description:

Position background:

What does this position accomplish for the business Coding and data analysis for high priority valuebased care projects

Describe the team:

• There are 4 other team members consisting of analysts and scientists that the candidate would partner with

Responsibilities:

• Develop new and maintain existing SAS programs to extract aggregate and manipulate pharmacy and medical claims for analyses to support ad hoc data requests
• Participate in interpretation of business requirements and creation of technical specifications including data dictionaries and programming specs
• Perform statistical analysis and generate reports to answer research questions
• Perform quality control checks on code data sets analytic outputs research manuscripts and other deliverables

Ideal candidate background:

• Bachelors and/or masters degree in health services research health economics biostatistics computer science epidemiology sociology psychology or equivalent)
• 3 years experience programming in SAS (including proc SQL)
• 3 years experience supporting health services health economics and outcomes research
• What skills/attributes are required (please be detailed as to number of years of experience for each skill) What skills/attributes are preferred (what will set a candidate apart)
• 3 years experience with administrative claims data EHR/EMR data or complex relational health care databases required. Preference will be given to candidates with experience using large administrative claims assets from health plan/payers