Optum in the tri-state region (formerly CareMount Medical, ProHEALTH New York and Riverside Medical Group) offers an interconnected network that enables us to work collaboratively to better coordinate care among our doctors and care teams. Together, we offer you and your family access to more than 2,100 providers, representing 70 specialties, working in 360 medical practices and more than 55 urgent care locations across New York, New Jersey, and Southern Connecticut.

ProHealth is one of the largest private multi-specialty medical practices in the Northeast and has been serving the health needs of Long Island and the Greater New York Metropolitan area since 1997. With over 900 providers in 300 locations, our goal is to provide quality health care to ensure that our patients get the right care at the right time.

At Optum, we are transforming healthcare nationally while providing physician-led care locally. Work with the largest care delivery organization in the world and start doing your life's best work.(sm)

CareMount Medical, P.C. is the largest independent multispecialty medical group in New York State, providing comprehensive medical care of the highest quality to over 640,000 patients in more than 45 locations throughout Westchester, Putnam, Dutchess, Columbia, and Ulster counties and New York City. Founded in 1946 as Mount Kisco Medical Group, CareMount has grown to over 600 physicians and advanced practice professionals representing more than 40 different medical specialties. CareMount is affiliated with world-class organizations including Massachusetts General Hospital, Mount Sinai Health System, and Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. CareMount offers on-site laboratory and radiology services, endoscopy and infusion suites, and operates eight urgent-care centers. Our physicians are frequently recognized as best doctors in respected publications and have been featured in lists including New York Magazine's "Best Doctors," Westchester and Hudson Valley Magazine's "Top Doctors" as well as in Castle Connolly Medical's "Top Doctors." For additional information about CareMount Medical and its specialties, please visit: www.caremountmedical.com.

The group has always maintained a firm commitment to each of our patients...to provide high quality medical and surgical care in a warm, friendly setting, and in a caring manner. Each and every member of our professional and support staff is dedicated to this ideal - physicians, nurses, technicians and support personnel

The primary goal of the Senior Analyst, Population Health, is to use data science principles and proprietary applications to maximize the health of our patients and the performance of our physicians. This individual will investigate key business problems through quantitative analyses of utilization and healthcare costs data and will be responsible for interpreting and analyzing clinical and payer claims data from various sources. The Senior Analyst is responsible for evaluating key population health metrics and presenting key findings to senior leaders and physicians in order to support the design, development, and implementation of Population Health programs that improve performance of health outcomes.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Participating in the development of analytical tools and data reports that will monitor organizational progress against health outcomes measures and medical cost trends
• Providing required analysis in order to understand medical cost and utilization drivers, as well as providing insightful commentary and sensitivity modeling analyses
• Building proactive relationships with key business areas to identify analytical needs and providing recommendations to improve programs for disease management, case management, and utilization review
• Managing data from key payors including Medicaid, Medicare, and commercial insurers
• Designing, building, and calculating key metrics for each value-based payor contract
• Developing analytics to identify coding gap opportunities impacting risk score adjustment
• Evaluating alternative payment models and other innovative risk sharing arrangements
• Designing, building, and optimizing predictive models to risk stratify patients for clinical intervention
• Tracking and analyzing provider financial performance in order to recommend options and solutions for the organization to meet its Population Health Management objectives
• Participating in and leading data manipulation of complicated data sets from multiple internal and external sources
• Performing hands-on tasks, including with data acquisition from disparate systems, data transformation and analysis and communicating findings
• Leading and mentoring junior analysts
  

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:

• Four-year degree from an accredited institution
• 4+ years of experience working in a health data role in managed care, population health, or health insurance
• Advanced knowledge of Microsoft Excel; including pivot tables, linked spreadsheets, lookup formulas, and graphing
• Proficiency in Microsoft Word and PowerPoint
• Knowledge and experience in SQL
  

Preferred Qualifications:

• Master's degree in a data-related field
• Experience working with large databases, e.g. health insurance claims databases, data warehousing, and/or database administration preferred; experience with encounter submissions
  

CareMount Medical, ProHEALTH Care Associates, and Riverside Medical Group (the “Practices”) are all physician owned and led practices having complete authority for all medical decision-making and patient care through their physicians and other licensed professionals. Optum, through its management organizations (“Optum”) provides non-clinical administrative services to support the Practices and their physicians. Neither Optum nor its management companies employ, engages, or supervises physicians or other licensed professionals, or determines or sets the methods, standards, or conduct of the practice of medicine or health care provided by the Practices or by any of their licensed professionals. “Part of Optum” reflects that the Practices are part of Optum’s effort to support forward-thinking physician practices in helping their patients live healthier lives.

Careers with Optum. Our objective is to make health care simpler and more effective for everyone. With our hands at work across all aspects of health, you can play a role in creating a healthier world, one insight, one connection and one person at a time. We bring together some of the greatest minds and ideas to take health care to its fullest potential, promoting health equity and accessibility. Work with diverse, engaged and high-performing teams to help solve important challenges.

New York Residents Only: The salary range for New York residents is $46,700 to $91,300. Pay is based on several factors including but not limited to education, work experience, certifications, etc. In addition to your salary, UnitedHealth Group 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). No matter where or when you begin a career with UnitedHealth Group, you’ll find a far-reaching choice of benefits and incentives.

At UnitedHealth Group, our mission is to help people live healthier lives and make the health system work better for everyone. We believe everyone–of every race, gender, sexuality, age, location and income–deserves the opportunity to live their healthiest life. Today, however, there are still far too many barriers to good health which are disproportionately experienced by people of color, historically marginalized groups and those with lower incomes. We are committed to mitigating our impact on the environment and enabling and delivering equitable care that addresses health disparities and improves health outcomes — an enterprise priority reflected in our mission.

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.