Job Description

Expanding access to affordable, high quality health care starts here. This is where some of the most innovative ideas in health care are created every day. This is where bold people with big ideas are writing the next chapter in health care. This is the place to do your life's best work.(sm)

We are searching for a healthcare economics consultant to join our experienced team. This creative role offers an excellent opportunity to directly impact an innovative function and secure your future with an industry leader. This role sits within a functional support team that works with the Southeast region supporting the Community and State value based contracting health plan efforts to provide optimal, affordable care for our members. This position will provide analytic support and consultation to local market health plans related to the modeling, analysis, and administration of required reporting and payments for C&S VBC agreements.

Primary Responsibilities:
* Interpret and analyze data and recommend best approaches
* Provides management with statistical findings, explanations and conclusions
* Provides data in support of actuarial, financial and utilization analyses
* Performs complex data validation and conceptual analyses
* Serves as subject matter expert to a health plan in support of value based contracting strategy
* Lead projects to completion by contributing to data analysis and financial reporting
* Prepare target models in support of customer requests, following contracting guidelines
* Complete physician scorecard reports according to terms of VBC agreements and present to Health Plan

You'll be rewarded and recognized for your performance in an environment that will challenge you and give you clear direction on what it takes to succeed in your role as well as provide development for other roles you may be interested in.

Required Qualifications:
* 4-year College Degree (Bachelor Level) any major with 2+ years of experience in data analytics
* Minimum 2 years of work experience in a corporate setting
* Intermediate level of proficiency working with MS Excel including formulas and pivot tables
* You will be asked to perform this role in an office setting or other company location, however, may be required to work from home temporarily due to space limitations
* Employees are required to screen for symptoms using the ProtectWell mobile app, Interactive Voice Response (i.e., entering your symptoms via phone system) or a similar UnitedHealth Group-approved symptom screener prior to entering the work site each day, in order to keep our work sites safe. Employees must comply with any state and local masking orders. In addition, when in a UnitedHealth Group building, employees are expected to wear a mask in areas where physical distancing cannot be attained

Preferred Qualifications:
* Medicaid experience
* Financial analysis in a healthcare setting
* Experience with SQL or SAS for data extraction and manipulation

Careers with UnitedHealthcare. Let's talk about opportunity. Start with a Fortune 7 organization that's serving more than 85 million people already and building the industry's singular reputation for bold ideas and impeccable execution. Now, add your energy, your passion for excellence, your near-obsession with driving change for the better. Get the picture? UnitedHealthcare is serving employers and individuals, states and communities, military families and veterans where ever they're found across the globe. We bring them the resources of an industry leader and a commitment to improve their lives that's second to none. This is no small opportunity. It's where you can do your life's best work.(sm)

Diversity creates a healthier atmosphere: UnitedHealth Group is an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, protected veteran status, disability status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by law.

UnitedHealth Group is a drug-free workplace. Candidates are required to pass a drug test before beginning employment.

Job Keywords: Senior Healthcare Economics Analyst, Healthcare, Financial Analysis, Data Analytics, Medicaid, SAS, SQL, Excel, Minnetonka, MN, Minnesota