Economist

Overview

This position is located in the Department of Health & Human Services (HHS), Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), Center for Medicare, (CM), and Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (CMMI).

As an Economist, GS-0110-13, you will perform economic analyses of health care financing and delivery issues and their connection with CMS programs.

• Conduct advanced economic analysis related to Medicare Advantage encounter data, risk adjustment, or other CMS priority.
• Develop data to be used to show the impact and cost of CMS regulatory actions and programs, policy making activities, health insurance coverage, drug expenditures, and medical expenditures.
• Prepare reports and recommendations that reflect significant findings and solutions to important and unusual problems identified for use by CMS. Reports include descriptions of study methods and the interpretation of report of findings.
• Provide review and guidance on methodologies applied, analysis assumptions used, policy issues, and analysis results.
• Direct, coordinate, plans, design, develop, and implement analyses of economic issues using mathematical models and statistical techniques.

• You must be a U.S. Citizen or National to apply for this position.
• You will be subject to a background and suitability investigation.