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Medicaid and Medicare Policy Researcher

ResearcherGeneralFull TimeRemoteSeniorTeam 1,001-5,000Since 1946H1B SponsorCompany SiteLinkedIn

Location

United States

Posted

12 days ago

Salary

$92.7K - $113K / year

Seniority

Senior

Postgraduate Degree4 yrs expEnglish

Job Description

Medicaid and Medicare Policy Researcher

American Institutes for Research

• Engage with Marketplace, Medicaid and Medicare stakeholders through meetings, briefings, and dissemination activities. • Interpret policy and regulations. • Specify, oversee, and interpret descriptive and statistical analyses of large, complex datasets. • Translate complex analytic findings into clear, actionable insights for state and federal stakeholders, including client reports, technical memoranda, and presentations. • Design and oversee the development of dashboards and other data visualizations to present quality performance and associated data. • Apply appropriate quantitative methods to collect, manage, analyze, and interpret administrative data, such as claims, encounters, enrollment, eligibility, and provider data. • Lead or contribute to the design and execution of research and evaluation projects, including policy analyses, demonstrations, and program evaluations. • Support proposal development work by writing technical sections, contributing to analytic approaches, and supporting proposal strategy. • Manage small to mid sized project tasks or analytic components, including planning timelines, tracking deliverables, and coordinating with internal teams and external clients. • Develop and manage budgets (in collaboration with a Project Manager), and communicate timelines, scope and resources with clients. • Ensure the quality, accuracy, and consistency of all work products through appropriate QA/QC processes. • Supervise, mentor and guide junior staff through feedback, training, and modeling best practices in quantitative and qualitative policy research and professional completion of project tasks. • Work effectively in a highly collaborative, multidisciplinary team environment with staff of varied technical skills and expertise.

Job Requirements

  • PhD in a relevant field (e.g., Economics, Public Policy, Health Services Research, Statistics, Public Health, Sociology, Political Science, or a related discipline), or a Master’s degree with at least four years of quantitative research experience.
  • Demonstrate policy expertise related to Marketplace, Medicare and Medicaid.
  • Demonstrated experience conducting applied quantitative research related to Marketplace, Medicaid, or Medicare.
  • Experience interpreting analytic results and contributing to reports, briefs, or presentations that inform program or policy decisions.
  • Experience working on research, evaluation, or technical assistance projects for federal or state Medicaid agencies, CMS, or other public or nonprofit entities.
  • Experience collaborating with cross functional teams, including programmers, analysts, and policy experts.
  • Familiarity with CMS data sources, Medicaid and Medicare programs, waiver demonstrations (e.g., 1115 waivers), or value based payment models preferred but not required.
  • Demonstrated experience applying a range of statistical inference methods.
  • Experience developing and writing proposals for federal agencies.
  • Experience developing, implementing, and/or adapting quality measures for federal programs.
  • Experience with large program and administrative, patient reported outcome, survey measure datasets.
  • Direct experience working with CMS is strongly preferred, but not required.

Benefits

  • AIR’s Total Rewards Program is designed to reward our staff competitively and motivate them to achieve our critical mission.

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