HEALTH DATA PROGRAMMER/ANALYST #7569
University of Southern Maine
Muskie School, Institute for Health Policy
Augusta and Portland locations
100% time, grant-funded
The primary purpose of this position is to provide highly technical computer and database management support to project teams working with Medicaid and Medicare data. This position requires extensive knowledge of Health Care data (i.e., Medicaid and Medicare) and how the data is processed thru a claims processing system. The Health Data Programmer /Analyst must have a thorough understanding of the policies that impact this data and how changes to the policy will impact the analysis. The Health Data Programmer /Analyst has extensive knowledge of the use of health information to inform policy, manage the care of program members through quality metrics including HEDIS type indicators and pay providers including pay for performance. The Health Data Programmer / Analyst manages data maintenance and storage, file construction, programming standards and documentation. The Health Data Programmer / Data Analyst designs and develops analytic databases to meet project requirements, manages and assures the quality of claims and encounter data file construction and data manipulation, provides statistical analysis as required by a project, and prepares written reports, including description of analytic methods and interpretation of study results
Qualifications: Required: Master's degree and at least three years of software application development experience using RDBMS (Relational DataBase Management Software); or a Bachelor's degree and a minimum of five years of software application development experience; or a combination of computer course work and work experience. Knowledge of relational database design and analysis techniques using SQL required. Knowledge of and prior work with health care information (i.e., Medicaid and/or Medicare) required. Knowledge of health quality metrics including HEDIS indicators and pay for performance techniques required. Preferred: Detailed familiarity with aspects of the health care delivery system relevant to claims processing such as claim forms, use of diagnostic and procedure codes, and other billing procedures. Experience in client tracking based systems. Familiarity with the following Specifications of Systems / Hardware & Software: Computer micro-systems, Programming in Microsoft Access, Visual Basic for applications or other object-oriented programming languages SAS, Microsoft SQLserver, Oracle, COGNOS.
Send cover letter and resume to Tina Gressani, Institute for Health Policy, USM, PO Box 9300, Portland, ME 04104-9300. Interviewees will be expected to provide contact information for three references. Deadline for submitting materials is April 14, 2008. The university has an institution-wide commitment to inclusion, diversity, multiculturalism and community.