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Job Title: Data Science Analyst I – Mount Sinai Health Partners

Background

Mount Sinai is one of the largest U.S. health systems with a strong reputation for quality of care (17th ranked US academic medical center) and innovative research/education (17th ranked US medical school, >$400M annually in NIH-funded research). This reputation is important but it’s not enough. At Mount Sinai, we have a responsibility to make healthcare better, optimizing its value for patients, purchasers, and communities.

The health care industry has a number of problems. Chief among them is affordability as federal and state governments are unable to keep Medicare & Medicaid solvent, employers are stretched to pay for health benefits for their employees, and those employees struggle to afford increasing paycheck deductions and deductibles. In addition, the industry has historically set a low bar for customer service, earning some of the lowest satisfaction scores of any industry, eroding trust from stakeholders. In recent years, employers and labor unions have begun to solve these problems by contracting directly with vendors and select providers to optimize value.

Job Summary:

The Data Science Analyst I collaborates with stakeholders from across the organization to develop sophisticated analytics to provide information, insights and BI (Business Intelligence) solutions that contribute to sound strategic planning, decision-making, goal setting, and effective performance measurement. This individual demonstrates sound understanding of the healthcare domain, technical data manipulation and analytic development skills and impact the patient community of the Mount Sinai Health System.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Analyzes data requests using information technology, enrollment, claims, pharmacy, clinical, contract, medical management, financial, administrative and other corporate data from both modeled and disparate internal and external sources.
  • Works with departmental staff to identify requirements for reporting and / or business intelligence tools.
  • Identifies necessary data, data sources and methodologies.
  • Collects, organizes, integrates, analyzes and interprets data.
  • Leverages advanced statistical analysis methods to create insightful recommendations and conclusions that may be communicated to the stakeholder.
  • Identifies and addresses expected and unforeseen data complexities to mitigate their impact on the analytic outcome and associated business decisions. Works to improve data quality where possible within created analytical models. Feeds data quality issues back to IT or identified data stewards to facilitate creation of high quality metrics.
  • Develops and may present reports, analyses and findings to senior management and others as scheduled or requested.
• Responsible for one or more of the following stakeholder groups:

• Takes a proactive role as liaison/analyst for internal stakeholders, understands their needs and translates them into reporting and analytic solutions.
• Effectively communicates with stakeholders and customers and ensures all requests are properly triaged, recorded and tracked.
• Adheres to corporate standards for performance metrics, data collection, data integrity, query design, and reporting format to ensure high quality, meaningful analytic output.
• Helps identify and understand data from internal and external sources for competitive, scenario and performance analyses, and financial modeling to gain member/provider insight into new and existing processes and business opportunities.
• Works closely with IT on the ongoing improvement of Mount Sinai’s integrated data warehouse, driven by strategic and business needs, and designed to ensure data and reporting consistency throughout the organization.
• Develops and maintains project work plans, including critical tasks, milestones, timelines, interdependencies and contingencies. Tracks and reports progress. Keeps stakeholders apprised of project status and implications for completion.
• Provides technical support to data analytics functions as they relate to varied business units, and technical expertise on the selection, development and implementation of various reporting and BI tools tied to business unit reporting requirements. Creates new BI reports and interactive dashboards as required.
• Prepares clear, well-organized project-specific documentation, including, at a minimum, analytic methods used, key decision points and caveats, with sufficient detail to support comprehension and replication.
• Ensures customers are adequately trained to use self-service BI tools and dashboards.
• Mentors level I Analysts, and teaches others within the organization on how to a) define meaningful process and performance measures, b) develop BI queries, and c) generate and use management reports effectively.
• Shares development and process knowledge with other analysts in order to assure redundancy and continuously builds a core of analytical strength within the organization.
• Demonstrates advanced level proficiency with the principles and methodologies of process improvement. Applies these in the execution of responsibilities in support of a process focused approach.
• Other duties as assigned

Education and Experience

• BA or BS degree minimum, in a relevant field of study; Masters degree preferred.
• 2 years experience is preferred in analytics development expertise, preferably in health care, or for a health provider, health plan or accountable care organization, including either:
  • Working knowledge of a health care EMR such as Epic/Clarity, aCW, etc.; a payor claims system such as Facets, Amisys, etc.; or a hospital/provider system such as IDX, Soarian, etc.

Additional Skills and Qualities

• Knowledge of the New York State Medicaid and CMS Medicare regulations and related reporting requirements, such as STARS,QARR, MMCOR, MEDS, RAPS and HEDIS is a strong plus.
• Experience working in a health plan or consulting actuarial, financial reporting or medical economics departments highly valuable.
• Experience as a nurse informaticist highly valuable.
• Experience working in healthcare provider analytics related to revenue modeling, managed care contracting, population management, case management, clinical or financial decision report
• PhD, MD or DO program may be substituted for three years of experience.

Who We Are

Over 42,000 employees strong, the mission of the Mount Sinai Health System is to provide compassionate patient care with seamless coordination and to advance medicine through unrivaled education, research, and outreach in the many diverse communities we serve.

Formed in September 2013, The Mount Sinai Health System combines the excellence of the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai with seven premier hospitals, including Mount Sinai Beth Israel, Mount Sinai Brooklyn, The Mount Sinai Hospital, Mount Sinai Queens, Mount Sinai West (formerly Mount Sinai Roosevelt), Mount Sinai St. Luke’s, and New York Eye and Ear Infirmary of Mount Sinai.

The Mount Sinai Health System (MSHS) provides equal employment opportunity to all its employees and applicants for employment without unlawful discrimination on the basis of their actual or perceived race, creed, color, religion, national origin, sex, gender, gender expression, gender identity, age, disability, marital or parental status, sexual orientation, veteran, immigration, citizenship, or other protected status.

EOE including Veterans and Disabled

Compensation

The Mount Sinai Health System (MSHS) provides a salary range to comply with the New York City Law on Salary Transparency in Job Advertisements. The salary range for the role is $72,473.00 - $108,709.00 Annually. Actual salaries depend on a variety of factors, including experience, education, and hospital need. The salary range or contractual rate listed does not include bonuses/incentive, differential pay or other forms of compensation or benefits.