Medicaid and Medicare Policy Researcher

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🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $92.7k - $113k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

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American Institutes for Research

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1001 - 5000 employees

Founded 1946

📚 Education

⚕️ Healthcare Insurance

🌍 Social Impact

💰 Grant on 2017-11

Education • Healthcare Insurance • Social Impact

American Institutes for Research is dedicated to advancing evidence and improving lives through rigorous research and evaluation. The organization focuses on education, health, human services, and international initiatives, providing technical assistance and data science capabilities to address critical social issues. With a mission to generate evidence that contributes to a better and more equitable world, AIR collaborates with communities, policymakers, and researchers to support evidence-based solutions across various sectors.

📋 Description

• 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.

🎯 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.