Avalere’s Policy Analytics and Modeling group provides analytic support and advisory services to a wide range of clients across the healthcare industry. Staff combine an in-depth understanding of quantitative methods with deep subject matter expertise regarding healthcare policy and business issues.

This group focuses on a range of issues including:

• Medicare & Medicaid payment policies and regulations
• Alternative payment models (e.g., Medicare Oncology Care Model, accountable care organizations, bundled payments)
• Federal budget forecasting and scoring models
• Drug pricing reform
• Health sector economic analysis and trends

Principal Duties and Responsibilities

• Developing new models and analytic approaches to provide insights on healthcare policy
• Advising healthcare industry stakeholders using data-driven analysis
• Conducting quantitative research on a diverse array of healthcare issues
• Constructing and improving models to predict and understand policy implications, using claims data and pharmacy event data
• Working independently and on collaborative teams with other analysts and experts, sometimes as the lead quantitative analyst on the project
• Interpreting others’ analyses to assess, critique, or build on their findings
• Understanding analyses and insights of other entities (e.g., CBO, OMB, CMS, MedPAC, MACPAC)
• Presenting quantitative results to both technical and non-technical audiences
• Providing project management to analytical projects under guidance from senior leadership

• A graduate degree in public policy, public health, economics, or a related field

• Familiarity with key data sources for healthcare analysis (e.g. Medicare claims, Medicare Part D data, commercial claims data, Medical Expenditure Panel Survey [MEPS] data, or Medicare Current Beneficiary Survey [MCBS] data)
• A strong interest in and knowledge of healthcare policy
• Demonstrated analytic and quantitative skills
• Excellent written and oral communication skills
• Project management experience
• Advanced experience with the Microsoft Office Suite, in particular Excel
• Experience with one or more programming languages (e.g. SAS, Stata, SPSS, R, SQL)

Additional Skills and Competencies

• The ability to interpret regulation and legislation to model impacts of changes on stakeholders
• A willingness to learn complex issues relating to the healthcare delivery system
• Initiative, working independently with minimal supervision
• The ability to work in teams

• 5 years of relevant full-time work experience
• Experience with healthcare-related quantitative analysis (e.g., micro-simulation models, forecasting models, claims-based analysis)
• Experience with one or more programming languages (e.g. SAS, Stata, SPSS, R, SQL)
• Experience in managing multiple deadlines