Senior Health Care Economics & Value- Analyst Atlanta, GA

Senior Health Care Economics & Value-Based Analyst

Atlanta, GA

Enlace Health is a specialty value-based care company focused on reducing the cost of care where it matters most: specialty services. Enlace operates across 80+ markets, delivering measurable results including millions in savings and improved care coordination. Our platform embeds actionable intelligence into real‑world execution, helping payors lower medical loss ratios and drive sustainable financial performance.

At Enlace Health, our people are our greatest asset. Our culture is founded upon integrity, hard work, and the relentless pursuit to make a difference. We think creatively, we like a challenge and draw inspiration from each other. As Senior Health Care Economics & Value-Based Analyst
, you’ll have deep expertise in actuarial methods, value-based payment modeling, predictive analytics, and medical cost economics. This role will support the design, evaluation, and optimization of value-based pricing and performance frameworks across Commercial, Medicare (including Medicare Advantage), and Medicaid populations. The ideal candidate combines actuarial discipline (MAA/ASA track preferred), advanced statistical modeling expertise, and strong hands‑on data capability (SQL, Tableau, Excel), with experience operating in complex payer and provider environments.

Success Measures:

• In 3 months:
• Gain full command of data, methodologies, and value-based program mechanics.
• Deliver early validated insights that build stakeholder confidence.

• In 6 months:
• Translate analytics into actionable financial and clinical insights.
• Own development of methodologies for program evaluation, performance normalization, and predictive insights for value-based programs.

• In 12 months:
• Architect scalable value-based pricing and performance frameworks.
• Inform network, contracting, clinical, and financial decisions with advanced analytics.
• Demonstrate measurable enterprise impact on cost, quality, and risk performance.

Responsibilities:

• Develop actuarially sound pricing models for Episodes of Care/Bundled Payments, Total Cost of Care (TCOC) programs, Shared Savings/Shared Risk arrangements, and sub-capitation and specialty value-based programs
• Construct prospective and retrospective target-setting methodologies using difference-in-differences approaches, market benchmarking, credibility weighting, and risk-adjusted baselines
• Evaluate financial and quality performance across Commercial, Medicare Advantage, and Medicaid lines of business
• Support pricing validation, reconciliation modeling, and performance evaluation analyses
• Develop and operationalize predictive models for cost, utilization, quality outcomes, and performance evaluation using random forest, gradient boosting (preferred), propensity score matching, logistic regression/GLMs, and/or multivariate and hierarchical modeling
• Build provider performance classifiers and volume-based credibility frameworks
• Conduct contracted vs. non-contracted provider performance comparisons
• Support steerage, network optimization, and care management analytics
• Perform medical cost trend decomposition (unit cost vs. utilization vs. intensity vs. mix)
• Conduct risk-adjusted PMPM analysis across specialties, site-of-service, and population segments
• Analyze longitudinal performance across defined assessment periods
• Quantify impact of specialty utilization patterns and referral dynamics
• Evaluating acuity, case-mix, and coding impacts across populations
• Write advanced SQL queries to construct episode-level, provider-level, and member-month datasets
• Develop repeatable analytic workflows supporting production modeling
• Construct Excel-based financial models for pricing and reconciliation analyses

Position Requirements:

• Bachelors degree in a STEM field (Statistics, Mathematics, Economics, Engineering, Computer Science, or related), with Master’s degree preferred (Health Economics, Data Science, Biostatistics, Applied Statistics, or related quantitative discipline), or equivalent work experience
• 5+ years of experience working within a payer or provider organization, or with healthcare analytics or care management organizations
• Demonstrated experience across…