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
Skills, Experience, and Other Job-Related Requirements
Education Requirements
- A graduate degree in public policy, public health, economics, or a related field
Skill Requirements
- 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
Experience Requirements
- 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