Medical Informatics Analyst Sr.

With more than 7,000 employees, we are the largest health insurance company in Michigan. We offer an exciting work environment with a diverse group of employees. Our goal is to make health insurance easier for our members. We want to transform the industry and become a resource that people can trust.

Detroit, MI

Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan

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Full-Time

Competitive Compensation and Benefits Package

Overview: Provides technical, data and software support to customer departments such as Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Value Partnerships, Hospital Contracting, Wellness Care Management and HCV Center of Excellence.
Responsibilities: <ul> <li>Leads projects with the minimum direction where data solutions are necessary. Provides programming and data expertise for complex projects and ad-hoc requests.&nbsp;</li> <li>Presents data and solutions to internal and/or external customers in a logical way. Provides data support and analysis for programs supporting over 4 million BCBSM beneficiaries using administrative claims data totaling $20 billion per year.&nbsp;</li> <li>Provides analysis and data support for various corporate departments including Value Partnership, Wellness Care Management, Hospital Contracting, and Center of Excellence in support of major corporate initiatives such as PGIP, RMRA, STARS, and NCQA/HEDIS.&nbsp;</li> <li>Standardizes, harmonizes, cleans and shares data with others in the organization as well as external customers.&nbsp;</li> <li>Creates and maintains data-centric product solutions, including third-party program integrations such as CAVE, HEDIS, risk scores.</li> <li>Supports various reporting activities and continuously strives to make them more efficient and easier for customers to consume.&nbsp;</li> <li>Completes ad-hoc data and analytic requests as assigned.&nbsp;</li> <li>Works with HCV-IT and Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics to maintain and enhance our Clinical Program Data Mart.&nbsp;</li> <li>Provides mentoring and oversight to co-workers.&nbsp;</li> <li>Leads projects and other analysts may provide support. &nbsp;</li> <li>Other duties as assigned.</li> </ul>
Requirements: <ul> <li> <div>Bachelors Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Business, Mathematics, Healthcare Information Technology or similar degree required.</div> </li> <li> <div>Master's Degree preferred.</div> </li> <li> <div>Minimum 6 years of progressively more responsible related work experience.</div> </li> <li> <div>Ability to use advanced functions in SQL or SAS or SPSS programming.</div> </li> <li> <div>Solid working knowledge of Microsoft tools and software (i.e., Excel, Visio, Access, PowerPoint).</div> </li> <li> <div>Competency in programming concepts such as Visual Basic, Business Objects, .Net, MDX, C++, or COBOL.</div> </li> <li> <div>Must possess the ability to help others think critically and share complex technical solutions to non-technical audiences both orally and in writing.</div> </li> <li> <div>Must be able to translate thoughts and ideas from non-data customers into data-centric solutions.</div> </li> <li> <div>Knowledge of data warehousing and data mining concepts including but not limited to ETL, datamart design, fact tables, dimension tables, data views within data marts/data warehouses, olap, rolap and data models such as star schemas and snowflake schemas.</div> </li> <li> <div>Ability to recognize data patterns, quantify potential issues and identify solutions.</div> </li> <li> <div>Ability to standardize, harmonize, clean, prepare and use data for developing datasets, reporting and analysis.</div> </li> <li> <div>Basic understanding of epidemiologic principals and population health management concepts desirable.</div> </li> <li> <div>Knowledge of healthcare terminology, plan/benefit design and fundamental operational principles and administrative claims data including standard coding schemes such as ICD-9/10 and HCPCS.</div> </li> <li> <div>Must possess strong leadership skills.</div> </li> </ul>