Senior Health Economist - Managed Care

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Position Title: Senior Health Economist - Managed Care

Senior Health Economist (Advanced Analytics Analyst Senior)

This role requires associates to be in-office 1 - 2 days per week, fostering collaboration and connectivity, while providing flexibility to support productivity and work-life balance. This approach combines structured office engagement with the autonomy of virtual work, promoting a dynamic and adaptable workplace. Alternate locations may be considered if candidates reside within a commuting distance from an office.

Please note that per our policy on hybrid/virtual work, candidates not within a reasonable commuting distance from the posting location(s) will not be considered for employment, unless an accommodation is granted as required by law.

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This position is not eligible for current or future visa sponsorship.

Carelon Health is a proud member of the Elevance Health family of brands, offering clinical programs and primary care options for seniors. We are a team of committed clinicians and business leaders passionate about transforming American healthcare delivery.

The Senior Health Economist measures financial performance of core Carelon products leveraging claims, authorization, and membership data to tell a detailed story to respective business stakeholders. The Senior Health Economist creates statistical models to predict, classify, quantify, and/or forecast business metrics. Design modeling studies to address specific business issues determined by consultation with business partners.

• Prepares analytical data sets in support of modeling studies. Build, test, and validate statistical models.
• Publishes results and addresses constraints/limitations with high-level business partners.
• Proactively collaborates with business partners to determine identified population segments.
• Develop actionable plans to enable the identification of patterns related to quality, use, cost, and other variables.

• Requires MS, MA, or PhD with concentration in a quantitative discipline such as statistics, computer science, cognitive science, economics, or operations research, a minimum of 3 years direct experience programming large, multi-source datasets with SAS required, and a minimum of 3 years in health care setting; or any combination of education and experience which would provide an equivalent background.

• Actuarial sciences background highly preferred.
• Utilization Management experience preferred.
• Medical economics, provider finance, healthcare analytics, and/or financial services highly preferred.
• Comprehensive understanding of medical claims data.
• Intermediate to Advanced expertise with SQL, SQL Server, Teradata, or equivalent strongly preferred.
• Proven ability to design modeling studies and experience with data models, addressing data quality issues in study design, and constructing robust and efficient analytical data sets strongly preferred.
• Significant experience in a healthcare-related field strongly preferred.
• The ability to present meaningful results to a business audience, to participate collaboratively in a team tasked to produce complex analyses on a rigorous schedule, to communicate with strong written and verbal communication skills, and to present to large multi-disciplinary audiences regularly strongly preferred.

For candidates working in person or virtually in the below location(s), the salary
* range for this specific position is $84,740 to $160,560. Locations:
California, Colorado, District of Columbia (Washington, DC), Illinois, Minnesota, New York, Washington State In addition to your salary, Elevance Health offers benefits such as, a comprehensive benefits package, incentive and recognition programs, equity stock purchase and 401k contribution (all benefits are subject to eligibility requirements). The salary offered for this specific position is based on a number of legitimate, non-discriminatory factors set by the Company.

The Company is fully committed to ensuring equal pay opportunities for equal work regardless of gender, race, or any other category protected by federal, state, and local pay equity laws.

* The salary range is the range Elevance Health in good faith believes is the range of possible compensation for this role at the time of this posting. This range may be modified in the future and actual compensation may vary from posting based on geographic location, work experience, education and/or skill level. Even within the range, the actual compensation will vary depending on the above factors as well as market/business considerations.

No amount is considered to be wages or compensation until such amount is earned, vested, and determinable under the terms and conditions of the applicable policies and plans. The amount and availability of any bonus, commission, benefits, or any other form of compensation and benefits that are allocable to a particular employee remains…