Health Economist

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🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $140k - $170k / year

⏰ Full Time

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BerryDunn — Assurance, Tax and Consulting

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501 - 1000 employees

Founded 1974

🏥 Healthcare

🛡️ Insurance

⚖️ Legal

Healthcare • Insurance • Legal

BerryDunn is an award-winning accounting and consulting firm with a 50-year history dedicated to providing exceptional services in assurance, tax, and consulting. The firm focuses on forming close partnerships with clients to deliver customized solutions that drive meaningful outcomes. Its expert teams work across various sectors, helping public and private entities optimize finances, reduce risks, and improve business processes with a commitment to client success.

📋 Description

• Design and conduct economic and quantitative analyses addressing Medicaid eligibility, enrollment, coverage continuity, utilization, access, spending, incentives, program performance, and operational impacts • Apply econometric, forecasting, simulation, and evaluation methods to inform policy and decision-making • Assess effects of H.R. 1, work and community engagement requirements, and other Medicaid policy changes • Develop scenarios and analytic approaches for implementation planning, monitoring, and evaluation • Evaluate Medicaid program integrity initiatives, including fraud, waste, abuse, payment integrity, improper-payment risks, financial impacts, savings, and unintended consequences • Develop econometric models, forecasts, scenario analyses, program evaluations, and quantitative approaches using Medicaid claims, encounter, eligibility, enrollment, provider, financial, demographic, and operational data • Document methods, assumptions, limitations, uncertainty, and policy implications • Structure client questions, develop analytic approaches and work plans, lead workstreams and project teams, and oversee analytical quality • Engage directly with senior Medicaid and government leaders • Translate findings into reports, presentations, policy briefs, and recommendations • Collaborate across disciplines, mentor junior staff, contribute to proposals and new client opportunities, and support Medicaid services growth

🎯 Requirements

• PhD in economics, health economics, health services research, public policy, or a closely related quantitative field with substantial training in economics, econometrics, and quantitative research methods • At least five years of relevant experience applying health economics, Medicaid policy analysis, quantitative policy research, program evaluation, healthcare analytics, or related methods to real-world healthcare questions • Advanced knowledge of econometrics and quantitative research methods • Demonstrated experience with forecasting, simulation, economic modeling, causal inference, program evaluation, or scenario analysis • Advanced proficiency with R, Stata, SAS, Python, or comparable technologies • Experience working with large and complex healthcare or administrative datasets • Experience analyzing healthcare claims, eligibility, enrollment, utilization, provider, financial, demographic, or related data • Strong knowledge of Medicaid policy and program operations • Ability to independently lead complex analytic work, exercise methodological judgment, oversee analysts or technical staff, and collaborate across multidisciplinary teams • Excellent written, verbal, and presentation skills • Ability to handle sensitive Medicaid, provider, and beneficiary data, including PII and PHI, and follow privacy, security, confidentiality, and HIPAA requirements

🏖️ Benefits

• Discretionary annual bonus eligibility based on company and personal performance • Benefits supporting physical, mental, career, social, and financial well-being • Reasonable accommodation for the application, interview, and job-performance processes • Learning, development, and well-being focused culture