Job Description:
Employer: IHC Health Services, Inc. (dba Intermountain Health)
Job Title: Data Analyst - Technical - Senior
Degree Required: Bachelor’s degree or equivalent foreign education
Academic Discipline(s): Management Information Systems, Analytics, Statistics, Health Informatics, or a closely related field
Experience Required: 5 years of post-degree progressive experience in healthcare data analytics
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Degree Required: Master’s degree or equivalent foreign education
Academic Discipline(s): Management Information Systems, Analytics, Statistics, Health Informatics, or a closely related field
Experience Required: 2 years of experience in healthcare data analytics
Job Description:
- Lead comprehensive analytics for national quality programs including HEDIS and Stars, overseeing the full lifecycle from technical specification translation, data validation, and rate calculation across both VBC and FFS populations.
- Maintain in-depth knowledge of HEDIS/Stars measures’ technical specifications, served as the primary point of contact and subject matter expert in Quality Data for providers and operational leaders within the company.
- Drive strategy and performance improvement for Value-Based Care models, developing reporting logic and incentive tracking for payment programs. Provided analytical insights that directly influenced care model design and provider engagement.
- Support executive-level payer negotiations by delivering customized analytics for Medicare, Medicaid, and Commercial contracts. Provided data driven intelligence to organization leadership on program performance, risk adjustment, and contract optimization.
- Lead KPI and performance metric reporting at the enterprise level, with audiences ranging from clinicians to executive stakeholders.
- Support the integration and use of supplemental clinical data to enhance quality measures reporting, validate performance gaps, and increase data accuracy in alignment with HEDIS specifications and health plan requirements.
- Support EMR data migration analytics during the transition from iCentra to Epic, ensuring the continuity of quality measure reporting, validating clinical data integrity, and guiding documentation alignment for post-go-live success.
- Partner with data architecture teams to implement next-generation analytics platforms, including quality measure migration to Snowflake. Conducted QA and validation across systems to ensure functionality replication and metric continuity.
- Develop and maint