The National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA), whose mission is to improve the quality of health care, is seeking a Senior Health Care Analyst.
Job Description
Major responsibilities include defining analysis plans and selecting appropriate statistical methods, quantitative analysis, programming in SAS or STATA, quality assurance for analysis, and communication with internal and external clients. The holder of this position must be able to work independently on multiple projects in coordination with other internal and external project team members.
Duties and Responsibilities
The Senior Health Care Analyst will develop analytical plans for research and other projects including: database design, selection of statistical methods, creation of project timelines, and development of formats for presenting results to meet customer needs.
Moreover, this person will conduct statistical analysis including preparation and cleaning of data, implementation and refinement of statistical methods, preparation of formatted tables of results, creation of databases and other outputs, and verification of the accuracy of results.
In addition, the Senior Health Care Analyst will provide analytic support for NCQA programs and high priority strategic projects such as the State of Health Care Quality report, CAHPS and HOS surveys, ABHP and Pay for Performance programs.
Qualifications
3 years experience analyzing large datasets, particularly health-related data.
Education:
Master’s degree with experience in health services research, applied statistics
Skills:
Proficiency in statistical software packages such as SAS, SPSS, STATA or R. Profound knowledge of word processing, spreadsheet and database applications