Your Role
The Clinical Quality Analytics and Informatics team delivers best-in-class clinical quality analytics and informatics to enable high quality and affordable member-centered care. Our data, intelligence, and actionable insights help drive quality strategy, performance improvement, and regulatory reporting. The Clinical Quality Analyst - Senior will report to the Clinical Quality Manager or Senior Manager. In this role you will provide data, analytic and reporting support for the Clinical Quality Department to improve Blue Shield of California and Promise Health Plan quality performance for regulatory and accreditation requirements including National Committee for Quality Assurance, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid and Department Health Care Service.Your Work
Essential Functions include but not limited to:
Conducts analysis of moderate complexity and develops reports with guidance from manager and peersCommunicates analytical results in graphs or summaries to various stakeholdersPrepares presentation materials that clearly convey information to appropriate internal and external BlueShield audiencesDesigns, builds, and enhances data systems and applications so that they better serve specific reporting requirementsAssist to develop documentation for all new and existing SAS programsReviews and revises existing analytical processes for accuracy and efficiencyIdentifies existing inefficiencies and problems and takes action to implement solutionsAssists junior team members through peer review, informal training, or mentoringSeeks and provides advice to analysts in other departments and business units regarding standardization of business rules and methods for analysis and reportingProduces accurate results under tight deadlinesContinuously refines and expands the technical, clinical, and financial content knowledge required to successfully complete these dutiesDevelops, implements, and documents quality assurance (QA) processes to ensure that reported data is accurate and reliableRecommends and implements solutions for identified problems/root cause pertaining to clinical data used for HEDIS reportingProvide advanced analytical support for business operations in all or some of the following areas: claims, provider data, member data, clinical data, HEDIS, pharmacy, or, external reportingContributes to team success by accomplishing tasks as neededYour Knowledge and Experience
Requires a bachelor’s degree in health science, quantitative social science, public health, health services research or business or equivalent experiencePrefer an MPH, MBA, MS, MA, RN, or RHIA in health science, quantitative social science, public health, health services research or businessRequires at least 5 years of prior operational and / or data analysis experience, experience in database structures, and standard query and reporting toolsProficient in MS Office – Word, Excel and PowerpointRequires at least 2 years of SAS/SQL programming experienceRequires at least 2 years of programming using inpatient claims, outpatient encounters, membership, pharmacy or laboratory dataRequires at least 2 years of experience with ICD (International Classification of Diseases) codes, CPT (Current Procedural Terminology) codes, Diagnostic Related Group (APR-DRG/MS-DRG) codes or Healthcare Common Procedure Coding System (HCPCS) codesRequires at least 3 years of experience in Health Care (managed care, academic, or gov't payer)Requires at least 1 year of experience working with NCQA HEDIS quality measuresRequires at least 1 year of experience with NCQA Health Plan Rating, CMS Medicare Advantage Star Rating or Medi-Cal Managed Care Accountability Sets (MCAS)Preferred experience with visual management (eg.Tableau, Power BI) or task management tools (eg. JIRA, Work Front, Sharepoint) or cloud data (eg. Azure, AWS, Snowflake)Mastery of at least two of the following: clinical coding, large-scale health databases, health statistics (e.g., epidemiology or health services), health insurance business principles. Must have sufficient familiarity with the technical and clinical concepts necessary to adequately perform the duties described above preferredExperience developing SAS/SQL programs and scripts that can be passed on to other analysts to improve their work efficiency preferredMust be able to develop programs and scripts that can be used to repeatedly to generate reliable reports and analyticsStrong verbal and written communication skillsMust exhibit level-appropriate competence in Departmental competency dimensions (Communication, Agile Learning, Business Knowledge, Creativity, Critical Thinking, Customer Focus, Drive for Results).Capable of managing deadlines and working simultaneously on a variety of tasksExperience with cost-of-healthcare or quality of care assessment in a managed care or academic settingExperience utilizing a certified HEDIS software preferred
Pay Range:
The pay range for this role is: $ 99000.00 to $ 148500.00 for California.
Note:
Please note that this range represents the pay range for this and many other positions at Blue Shield that fall into this pay grade. Blue Shield salaries are based on a variety of factors, including the candidate's experience, location (California, Bay area, or outside California), and current employee salaries for similar roles.
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