Analyst, Population Health

Company: Oak Street Health

Title: Population Health Analyst

Location: Downtown Chicago (30 W. Monroe St.)

Oak Street Health is a rapidly growing, innovative company of community-based healthcare centers that provides higher quality health and wellness care that improves outcomes, manages medical costs, and provides an unmatched experience for adults on Medicare in medically underserved communities.  By providing holistic, comprehensive and integrated care right in our patient’s communities, we can keep our patients healthy and then reinvest cost savings in further care for those same communities and others. Since 2013, Oak Street Health has brought its singular approach to tens of thousands of people in Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Ohio.  At 40 locations, and with an ambitious growth trajectory, Oak Street Health is attracting and cultivating team members who embody Oak Street values and are passionate about the mission to rebuild healthcare as it should be.

For more information, visit http://www.oakstreethealth.com.

Role Description

At Oak Street, Population Health drives both our clinical and economic model and is focused on delivering high-quality, cost-effective care.

Members of the team leverage Oak Street’s growing data to develop and optimize interventions in collaboration with clinicians and subject matter experts. This role will also support complex analyses of medical costs and health indicators, including supporting program evaluation.

The ideal candidate will have strong analytical skills, be an effective communicator and be committed to the Oak Street mission.

Responsibilities

Predictive Analytics

• Support deployed Machine Learning models and evaluate their performance

• Translate guidance from clinical and business leaders into feature engineering to improve performance of predictive models and develop new models

• Partner with internal teams, including Business Intelligence & application developers, to operationalize predictions

Program Evaluation

• Complete analyses to support evaluation of key care model programs and interventions

• Maintain clear, organized documentation of analyses

• Support communication of findings through the development of charts, visualizations and written summaries

Medical Cost Analyses

• Support business and medical leaders with analyses of medical claims data to inform decision making

• Work across insurance company membership files, medical claims datasets and electronic medical records to identify opportunities for improved health and business outcomes

• Provides other ad hoc analyses as needed

What we’re looking for

We’re looking for motivated, entrepreneurial individuals with:

• 1-3 years experience with R or Python

• Experience with Excel, SQL, and relational databases preferred

• Familiarity with healthcare data preferred

• Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills

• Outstanding attention to detail

• Strong communication and interpersonal skills

• Comfort with big data sets, from varying sources, including medical claims

• An ability to independently pursue and implement solutions to complex problems

• Interest in innovation

• US work authorization

• Someone who embodies being “Oaky”

What does being “Oaky” look like?

• Radiating positive energy

• Assuming good intentions

• Creating an unmatched patient experience

• Driving clinical excellence

• Taking ownership and driving for results

• Being scrappy

Why Oak Street?

Oak Street Health offers our coworkers the opportunity to be at the forefront of a revolution in healthcare, as well as:

• Collaborative and energetic culture

• High levels of responsibility and rapid advancement

• Headquarters (the “Treehouse”) located in the heart of Downtown, close to many public transit options and great restaurants

• Competitive benefits; including paid vacation/sick time, generous 401K match with immediate vesting, as well as health benefits
   

Oak Street Health is an equal opportunity employer. We embrace diversity and encourage all interested readers to apply to oakstreethealth.com/careers.