Milliman’s Seattle Health Practice is looking for a Senior Provider Payment Analyst with experience in healthcare payments and data analytics to provide independent and transparent metrics, align incentives across stakeholders, and identify opportunities for performance improvement. The position requires a high degree of technical proficiency and experience working with large healthcare datasets. We provide extensive on-the-job training in consulting skills and advanced actuarial techniques.
About Our Practice
Milliman’s Seattle Health Practice serves a wide variety of organizations, including insurance companies, health plans, state and federal agencies, healthcare providers, reinsurance companies, and employers. The staff consists of 150+ actuarial professionals in addition to healthcare consultants, IT, Administrative, and other non-actuarial staff.
By joining Milliman, you will be working with some of the most experienced, most capable people in the health industry. Through our mentor program, you will have a dedicated colleague available to help guide your career growth. For the right candidate, these opportunities will help you grow professionally while enjoying the work you do.
You will have the opportunity to:
- Work with a team to complete client-specific analysis
- Review regulatory changes that affect provider payment and risk sharing programs
- Perform analysis with large (i.e., >10M records) healthcare data sets
- Write reports that explain technical concepts clearly to a non-technical audience
- Supervise actuarial students in the completion of technical aspects of actuarial projects
Employees will be expected to develop the ability to manage client relationships. While not required, employees that learn to successfully generate new business with both new and existing clients are likely to experience the greatest career growth.
To be successful in this role, you will have the following qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in mathematics, statistics, economics, or a related field
- 5+ years of healthcare analytics experience with a healthcare payer, health systems, consulting, and/or healthcare payment vendors
- 5+ years of experience working with large (i.e., >10M records) healthcare datasets
- Strong understanding of the US healthcare system
- Proficiency with Excel and analytic programing.
- Some knowledge of SAS, SQL, and/or R
- Experience with Python, .NET platform, Azure, and/or Databricks is preferred
- Demonstrable skills in clearly presenting technical concepts to a non-technical audience
Personal Qualifications:
- Excellent communication both verbal and written
- Ability to work both independently and in team environments
- Proven ability to work in a fast-paced environment where client satisfaction is key
- Entrepreneurial spirit
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience working with product development teams
- Experience with provider payment systems, fee schedules, Medicare fee-for-service, and/or risk sharing programs
- Experience managing project teams
- Experience with process automation
Location
This position is based out of the Milliman office in Seattle, WA. It is preferred that this employee work in-office, but remote candidates anywhere in the US will be considered.
Compensation
The salary range for this position is $80,000 – $125,000, depending on relevant factors, including but not limited to education, skills, certifications, and location. In addition to the base salary, there is a potential for an annual bonus of 20% or higher based upon billable hours and client projects managed.
To be considered for this position, please upload a resume and cover letter.
No recruiters, please.
Benefits
At Milliman, we focus on creating an environment that recognizes – and meets – the personal and professional needs of the individual and their family. We offer competitive benefits which include the following based on plan eligibility:
- Medical, dental and vision coverage for employees and their dependents, including domestic partners
- A 401(k) plan with matching program, and profit sharing contribution
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
- A discretionary bonus program
- Paid Time Off (PTO) starts accruing on the first day of work and can be used for any reason; full-time employees will accrue 15 days of PTO per year, and employees working less than a full-time schedule will accrue PTO at a prorated amount based on hours worked
- Family building benefits, including adoption and fertility assistance and paid parental leave up to 12 weeks for employees who have worked for Milliman for at least 12 months and have worked at least 1,250 hours in the preceding 12-month period
- A minimum of 8 paid holidays
- Milliman covers 100% of the premiums for life insurance, AD&D, and both short-term and long-term disability coverage
- Flexible spending accounts allow employees to set aside pre-tax dollars to pay for dependent care, transportation, and applicable medical needs
Why Milliman?
Independent for 75 years, Milliman delivers market-leading services and solutions to clients worldwide. Today, we are helping companies take on some of the world’s most critical and complex issues, including retirement funding and healthcare financing, risk management and regulatory compliance, data analytics and business transformation.
Through a team of professionals ranging from actuaries to clinicians, technology specialists to plan administrators, we offer unparalleled expertise in employee benefits, investment consulting, healthcare, life insurance and financial services, and property and casualty insurance.
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment, without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.
Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities
The contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor’s legal duty to furnish information. 41 CFR 60-1.35(c)