Health Policy Analyst,Provider Finance Pricing Team Job Boston Massachusetts USA,Healthcare

At the Center for Health Information and Analysis (CHIA), we serve as stewards of Massachusetts health data, employing multifaceted datasets and cutting‑edge analytics to ensure transparency in our health care system. By joining CHIA, you'll dive into health care data, revealing invaluable trends and insights, and play a pivotal role in evidence‑based decision‑making.

Our work directly impacts the health care system, supporting the development of data‑driven policies that aim to improve the quality and equity of care, while keeping costs affordable for Massachusetts families. We foster a flexible, collaborative environment, offering a hybrid model that balances in‑person and remote work. Our hybrid approach allows you to work alongside your colleagues in our vibrant Boston office at 501 Boylston Street for at least two designated days per week, with the flexibility to work remotely on others.

Join us at CHIA and be a driving force in health policy impact! CHIA is seeking a Health Policy Analyst or Senior Health Policy Analyst to provide hands‑on contributions in the development and implementation of data‑driven pricing policy within the Provider Finance Pricing team.

As a Health Policy Analyst at CHIA, you will have the opportunity to:

Put Data into Action: Conduct analyses of health care costs, service utilization, and other data sources that support the lifecycle of pricing policy development. In this role, you will help shape the payment rates made to health care providers by state agencies, including the Commonwealth’s Medicaid program (Mass Health).

Innovate and Improve: Bring your creativity and critical thinking skills to designing and updating data collection tools, reviewing and validating data submissions, and identifying best practices. You will also participate in cross‑unit work groups to enhance data management and analysis approaches and implement quality assurance protocols to ensure accurate data and results.

Lead and Collaborate: Coordinate regulation kick‑off and project meetings, conduct analyses and develop rate models, draft memos, and deliver results to senior leadership at other state agencies. Play a critical role as a liaison between CHIA, Mass Health, and other Executive Office of Health and Human Services agencies, attend public hearings, and regularly engage with stakeholders in the Commonwealth’s health care industry.

Here are the important qualifications we are looking for:

Educational Foundation: Possess a bachelor’s degree in public policy, public health, health care policy and management, business administration, finance, accounting or a similar quantitative field. A graduate degree in any of the above is preferred.

Data Strategist: Showcase your strong data management skills, including the ability to manipulate, organize, and analyze different datasets. Proficiency in analysis and management of financial, statistical, demographic, and clinical data primarily utilizing Excel, as well as statistical software programs such as R, will enable you to support health care policy decision‑making.

Specialized Expertise: Bring at least three years of professional experience, focusing on business administration, finance, accounting, health care planning or administration, public health policy or administration, economics, or a similar field. Working knowledge of the Massachusetts health care system and ability to read and interpret financial statements, P&L’s and cost reports is preferred.

Effective Communication and Organization: Demonstrate excellent written and verbal communication skills, with an ability to engage and foster collaboration with stakeholders and articulate complex findings clearly and persuasively to technical and non‑technical audiences. Manage your workload to simultaneously advance several projects with overlapping deadlines and work effectively both independently and in a team environment.

We’re eager to welcome a dedicated professional who shares our passion for making a difference. Join us in this collaborative endeavor, where we’ll forge new paths, innovate, and lead the way toward a stronger Commonwealth.

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