Provider Contract/Cost of Care Consultant (Competitive Intelligence)

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United States

Anthem Inc.- Health Solutions

Anthem is working to transform health care with trusted and caring solutions. Our health plan companies deliver quality products and services that give their members access to the care they need. With over 74 million people served by its affiliated companies, including approximately 40 million within its family of health plans, Anthem is one of the nation's leading health benefits companies. https://antheminc.com/index.htm

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Full-time

Overview: <p>Responsible for end to end ownership of data mining various forms of competitive intel data in support of advancing Anthem&rsquo;s strategic goals and mission.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>Provides analytical support to the Cost of Care and/or Provider Contracting organizations. Focuses efforts on lowering claims costs, improving the quality of care, and increasing member and provider network satisfaction. Provides expert advice, analytic and consultative support to Medical Directors and management on cost of care issues. Works on large scale initiatives with high dollar cost savings opportunities. Partners with provider contractors to develop contracting strategy and supports all aspects of the contract negotiation process. Can work with multiple provider types, e.g. physician, ancillary, medical groups, or hospitals. Supports a full range of contract arrangements and pricing mechanisms. Works on complex enterprise-wide initiatives and acts as project lead.</p>
Responsibilities: <ol> <li>Owns and leads all advanced analytic activities around competitive intelligence gathering and reporting.</li> <li>Prepares detailed analytic recommendations around competitive positioning.</li> <li>Uses analytic tools to track both health risks and compliance, as well as supporting the contract negotiation process. Types of analyses include performing sophisticated retrospective data analytics; building new and modifying existing complex models to create predictive impact decision making tools; performing healthcare cost analysis to identify strategies to control costs; projecting cost increases in medical services by using analytic techniques for PMPM trending via multiple variable analysis; preparing pre-negotiation analysis to support development of defensible pricing strategies; performing modeling to compare various contract scenarios based on member utilization patterns and 'what if' logic; measuring and evaluating the cost impact of various negotiation; researching the financial profitability/stability and competitive environment of providers to determine impact of proposed rates; and projects different cost of savings targets based upon various analytics. Identifies cost of care savings opportunities by analyzing practice patterns in relation to office visits, referral practices, and specialty care procedures.</li> <li>Recommends standardized practices to optimize cost of care.</li> <li>Educates provider contractors on contracting analytics from a financial impact perspective.</li> <li>May recommend alternative contract language and may go on-site to provider premises during contract negotiations.</li> <li>Participates on project team involved with enterprise wide initiatives.</li> <li>Acts as a source of direction, training and guidance for less experienced staff.</li> </ol>
Requirements: <ul> <li>Requires BS/BA degree in Mathematics, Statistics, or related field.&nbsp;</li> <li>Minimum of 5 years&rsquo; experience in broad-based analytical, managed care payor or provider environment; considerable experience in statistical analysis and healthcare modeling.&nbsp;</li> <li>Any combination of education and experience, which would provide an equivalent background.</li> <li>Master's degree preferred.</li> <li>SAS, SQL and Excel required.</li> <li>Tableau preferred.</li> <li>Healthcare experience required.</li> <li>Claims experience required.</li> </ul>