Clinical Quality Analytics, Consultant

Your RoleThe 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 - Consultant will report to the Clinical Quality Analytics Senior Manager with day-to-day oversight provided by the CalPERS analytic lead. In this role you will provide data, analytic and reporting support, in partnership with the Clinical Quality Department, for the BSC CalPERS HMO/PPO lines of business. This includes monthly executive reporting, tableau dashboards, member engagement and adhoc analytics.Your WorkIn this role, you will:Conduct independent analysis of high complexity under minimal supervision and guidanceDevelop analytical methods so that they may be subsequently delegated for production to Clinical Quality Analysts at lower levelsProduce analysis of high complexity under the guidance and direction of Clinical Quality Analyst - Principal or managerDevelop documentation and create and execute workplans for analyses of high complexity. Workplans may coordinate the activities of Clinical Quality Analysts at lower levels and may involve collaboration with more than one teamProvide training and mentoring for team members on best practices for analysis and reporting; assist in the development of supplemental analytic training tools and materials; conducts formal training sessions for lower level analysts and analysts in other Departments.Conduct independent analysis of high complexity under moderate supervision and guidance, develop novel analyses and reportsCollect data from various internal systems (e.g. Claims processing or membership systems) and external systems (EMR/EHR) and converts those data to actionable insights to guide business decision making for BSC populations' health management and quality of careDevelop, implement, and document quality assurance (QA) processes to ensure that reported data is accurate and reliableConduct program evaluation, vendor assessments, performance guarantees using advanced statistical modelingPartner with the HEDIS data team, Clinical Quality Analytics and Medical Record Review teams to support HEDIS performance improvement initiatives

Your Knowledge and ExperienceRequires 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 SAS/SQL programming experienceRequires at least 7 years of prior operational and / or data analysis experience, experience in database structures, and standard query and reporting toolsRequires at least 5 years of experience in Health Care (managed care, academic, or gov't payer)Requires at least 3 years of experience working with NCQA HEDIS quality measuresRequires at least 3 years of experience with NCQA Health Plan Rating, CMS Medicare Advantage Star Rating or Medi-Cal Managed Care Accountability Sets (MCAS)Requires at least 5 years of programming using inpatient claims, outpatient encounters, membership, pharmacy or laboratory data.Requires at least 5 years of experience with ICD (International Classification of Diseases) codes, CPT (Current Procedural Terminology) codes, Diagnostic RelatedProficient in MS Office - Word, Excel and PowerpointExperience with visual management tools (eg. Tableau, Power BI) or task management tools (eg. JIRA, Work Front, Sharepoint) or cloud data (eg. Azure, AWS, Snowflake)Experience working with RDBMS: Oracle, Netezza, DB2 etc.Group (APR-DRG/MS-DRG) codes or Healthcare Common Procedure Coding System (HCPCS) codesExperience utilizing a certified HEDIS softwarePay Range:The pay range for this role is: $ 118800.00 to $ 178200.00 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.#LI-MM4