Healthcare Statistician

APS was founded as a behavioral healthcare company and has evolved into a specialty healthcare company that offers customized, integrated healthcare solutions across two major product lines: care management and behavioral healthcare services. The company has capitalized on its experience in behavior change to create physical and mental healthcare programs that are industry renowned. The use of an integrated approach to healthcare for the mind and body has allowed APS to be more effective in improving the quality and effectiveness of care.

Today, APS is a pioneer in providing health and disease management services while retaining its position as one of the leading behavioral healthcare organizations in the United States. In fact, APS is the only specialty healthcare company with extensive experience in health management, behavioral healthcare, employee assistance programs (EAP), informatics and quality review/oversight programs.

APS Healthcare offers its employees a competitive benefits package, Including: medical and dental benefit plans, 401(k) retirement plan with company match short- and long-term disability, paid holidays, paid vacation/sick time, tuition reimbursement, plan for license CEUs required to work at APS, flex spending accounts, life insurance, transportation and parking reimbursement accounts and credit union membership.
Position Description

Healthcare Statistician / 2319

Position Description:

APS Healthcare maintains a dedicated Health Intelligence (HI) team which provides analytic services to support both corporate level initiatives and account level operations. This unit is responsible for measurement definition, quantitative analysis for product and business development and conducting evaluations and studies on healthcare programs. Maintaining these functions in-house allows us to evaluate programs and effectively bring insights through customized analyses and reports that are timely, tailored, and meaningful.

We are currently seeking a proven Healthcare Statistician to join our Health Intelligence team!

This position will fulfill the information needs of internal and external customers, extracting information and developing insights and direction for both current customers and for product development. The successful individual will conduct and coordinate complex cross-functional analysis of health care data to identify outcomes and trends, interpret and explain results, and discover opportunities for improvement. In addition, he/she will be proficient in both data aggregation, in order to interpret data, communicate actionable findings, and provide recommendations as appropriate to senior/executive management. The ideal candidate will have a solid understanding of healthcare data combined with the ability to transform terabytes of data using SAS and/or SQL from disparate sources into actionable business intelligence. Additionally, he/she has extensive experience with advanced statistical procedures and the ability to apply statistical and methodological knowledge to a wide range of projects.

Responsibilities:
*Develops compelling stories from the results of outcomes and data analytics that is consistent with the goals and priorities of the company
*Extract, transform and summarize administrative healthcare data using SQL and/or SAS tools.
*An understanding of data warehousing and relational database concepts is a plus.
*Education/experience in statistical analysis including parametric testing is a requirement.
*Interpret and present findings from statistical reports.
*The ideal candidate will have written and presented health care related publications/reports based on quantitative data.
*Provides ongoing communication on project status, results and conclusions from analyses.
*Performs statistical analysis and research literature searches.
*Develops proof of concept analyses.

Qualifications:

*Bachelor’s degree in healthcare field, math, statistics, or other quantitative fields. Master’s degree preferred.

*A minimum of three years additional background in healthcare, risk management, managed care, statistics or related areas of expertise is required.
*Knowledge of relational database principals including SAS, SQL and MS-Office software is required.
*Advanced knowledge of SQL and SAS programming logic a plus.
*Knowledge of statistical procedures and methodologies required.
*Knowledge of medical terminology required.
*Experience with various claims coding and processing systems, healthcare enrollment/eligibility data, healthcare claims data including CPT, ICD-9, ICD-10 and an understanding of bill coding formats such as UB-04 and HCFA 1500.
*Understanding of the relationship between healthcare billing and various financing/payment methods, such as Diagnosis Related Groups, is a plus.
*Experience measuring health related outcomes is required. Knowledge of HEDIS a plus.
*Proven ability to apply critical thinking and problem solving skills to unique and complex analyses.
*Experience with healthcare programs either through education or work experience.
*Ideally, the candidate will have experience with care management programs or have clinical education/training
*Excellent oral and written communication skills; ability to confidently interact with all levels in the organization.
*Demonstrates excellent organization and time management skills.
*Maintains strong technical process documentation skills.
*Maintains friendly and professional demeanor in a fast-paced, high energy, ever changing work environment.