Medicare Stars Senior Data Scientist (Healthcare)

Location: Fully remote within the continental United States, excluding California, New York, Alaska, and Hawaii

Base pay: $92,700–$167,500 per year, with eligibility for an annual incentive bonus.

Company

hirify.global is a healthcare organization supporting Medicare programs, member outcomes, quality performance, affordability, and enterprise value.

What you will do

• Apply advanced mathematical and statistical methods to complex business and healthcare problems.
• Collect, integrate, and analyze claims, clinical outcomes, quality measures, provider performance, member outcomes, and internal process data.
• Develop and validate predictive algorithms using machine learning, statistical modeling, and probabilistic methods.
• Design experiments and analytical methodologies, and create visualizations and analytical applications.
• Translate findings into recommendations for Medicare Stars performance, quality improvement initiatives, affordability, and member outcomes.
• Partner with clinical, pharmacy, customer experience, product, and operations teams on cross-functional decisions.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree plus 3 years of relevant quantitative experience, a master’s degree plus 2 years, a Ph.D., an actuarial credential, or 7 years of relevant experience.
• Proficiency in at least four areas: data analysis and relational-style query languages, machine learning or statistical modeling, data visualization, high-level programming, distributed computing, and healthcare.
• Experience with statistical or data-mining methods, including propensity score modeling, multivariate regression, or machine learning.
• Experience with SAS, Dataiku, R, and/or Python.
• Understanding of healthcare data and healthcare delivery processes, including claims, utilization, and provider information.
• Must be based in the United States; sponsorship is not available.

Nice to have

• Master’s or Ph.D. in a quantitative field, or a bachelor’s degree with significant healthcare experience.
• Experience with diverse healthcare data, including EHR, demographic, pharmacy, laboratory, biometric, genomic, or text data.

Culture & Benefits

• Fully remote work within the eligible US locations.
• Curated development plans supporting professional growth.
• Health and wellness benefits, paid time off, paid parental leave, disability insurance, life insurance, and an employee assistance program.
• 401(k) savings plan, pension plan, paid holidays, tuition reimbursement, and other incentives.