Medicaid Researcher, Healthcare Innovations

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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

• Lead or contribute to the design and execution of Medicaid‑focused research and evaluation projects, including policy analyses, demonstrations, and program evaluations. • Apply appropriate quantitative methods to collect, manage, analyze, and interpret Medicaid administrative data, such as claims, encounters, enrollment, eligibility, and provider data. • Conduct analyses that examine Medicaid utilization, access, quality, cost, and equity outcomes across populations and delivery systems. • Translate complex analytic findings into clear, actionable insights for state and federal Medicaid stakeholders, including client reports, technical memoranda, and presentations. • Support proposal development for Medicaid‑related 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. • Collaborate closely with programmers, data scientists, policy staff, and project leadership to ensure analytic rigor and alignment with policy objectives. • Mentor and guide junior staff through feedback, training, and modeling best practices in quantitative and Medicaid policy research. • Engage with Medicaid stakeholders through meetings, briefings, and dissemination activities. • Contribute to a collaborative and inclusive work environment.

🎯 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. • Demonstrated experience conducting applied quantitative research related to Medicaid, public insurance, or safety‑net health programs. • Experience working with large‑scale administrative health data, particularly Medicaid claims, encounters, enrollment, eligibility, or provider files. • Experience interpreting analytic results and contributing to reports, briefs, or presentations that inform Medicaid 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.

🏖️ Benefits

• AIR’s Total Rewards Program • Health insurance • Retirement plans • Paid time off • Flexible work arrangements • Professional development