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**Biostatistician**
+ Job Family: Biostatistics and Research
+ Type: Full time
+ Date Posted:Feb 29, 2024
+ Anticipated End Date:Apr 29, 2024
+ Reference: JR105653
**Location:**
+ IN, INDIANAPOLIS
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**Description**
**Biostatistician**
**Location:** This position will work a hybrid model (remote & office). The ideal candidate must live within 50 miles of one of our Elevance Health PulsePoint office locations.
The **Biostatistician** is responsible for learning the rules of payment for Medicare and how it impacts data used by the Clinical Data Team. You will be responsible for developing and implementing clinical prediction models, experimental design, program evaluation and effectiveness methodologies, and statistical sampling for health plan functions. Use and manipulation of large datasets is critical to the success of this position. It is expected that you will become familiar with the rules of Medicare and Social Security that apply to claims payments.
**How You Will Make An Impact:**
+ Develops and implements prediction models for member and provider-based interventions.
+ Conducts competitive analysis of risk stratification models and makes recommendations to management.
+ Designs and executes care management program evaluations.
+ Develops evaluation methodologies for measuring the effectiveness of clinical programs.
+ Researches and analyzes broadly defined business scenarios, trends, and patterns and develops recommendations for management.
+ Provides technical/analytical advice to staff.
+ Responds to and manages ad hoc client requests to ensure accurate, in-depth results/data are delivered in a timely manner.
+ Prepares results for presentation to internal/external clients.
+ Presents research findings to management and clients.
+ Compiles results of studies for journal publication.
**Minimum Requirements:**
+ Requires a Masters degree in Biostatistics, Statistics or related field; 3 years healthcare and/or consumer data analysis experience; 2+ years experience in the development of predictive models; 3 years coding experience with SAS; 3 years experience manipulating and processing large multi-source datasets with SAS and SQL programming tools; or any combination of education and experience, which would provide an equivalent background.
+ This position is part of our FGS (Federal Government Services) division which, per CMS TDL 190275, requires foreign national applicants meet the residency requirement of living in the United States at least three of the past five years.
**Preferred Skills, Capabilities & Experiences:**
+ Experience with industry standard clinical code sets, predictive modeling risk adjustment tools and episode groupers and measures, such as HEDIS, preferred.
+ Use of following analysis tools is highly preferred: Power BI, Denodo, MicroStrategy, Oracle and Python.
+ Strong or expert working knowledge in use of SAS (Statistical Analysis Software) is highly preferred.
_If this job is assigned to any Government Business Division entity, the applicant and incumbent fall under a `sensitive position' work designation and may be subject to additional requirements beyond those associates outside Government Business Divisions. Requirements include but are not limited to more stringent and frequent background checks and/or government clearances, segregation of duties principles, role specific training, monitoring of daily job functions, and sensitive data handling instructions. Associates in these jobs must follow the specific policies, procedures, guidelines, etc. as stated by the Government Business_ Division in which they are employed.
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Who We Are
Elevance Health is a health company dedicated to improving lives and communities and making healthcare simpler. We are a Fortune 25 company with a longstanding history in the healthcare industry, looking for leaders at all levels of the organization who are passionate about making an impact on our members and the communities we serve.
How We Work
At Elevance Health, we are creating a culture that is designed to advance our strategy but will also lead to personal and professional growth for our associates. Our values and behaviors are the root of our culture. They are how we achieve our strategy, power our business outcomes and drive our shared success - for our consumers, our associates, our communities and our business.
We offer a range of market-competitive total rewards that include merit increases, paid holidays, Paid Time Off, and incentive bonus programs (unless covered by a collective bargaining agreement), medical, dental, vision, short and long term disability benefits, 401(k) +match, stock purchase plan, life insurance, wellness programs and financial education resources, to name a few.
Elevance Health operates in a Hybrid Workforce Strategy. Unless specified as primarily virtual by the hiring manager, associates are required to work at an Elevance Health location at least once per week, and potentially several times per week. Specific requirements and expectations for time onsite will be discussed as part of the hiring process. Candidates must reside within 50 miles or 1-hour commute each way of a relevant Elevance Health location.
The health of our associates and communities is a top priority for Elevance Health. We require all new candidates in certain patient/member-facing roles to become vaccinated against COVID-19. If you are not vaccinated, your offer will be rescinded unless you provide an acceptable explanation. Elevance Health will also follow all relevant federal, state and local laws.
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