Data Analyst

Employment Benefits

• Comprehensive medical, mental, dental, vision, and additional coverage
• Sick & Vacation leave
• Work-Life Balance programs : parental leave, military leave, jury leave, funeral leave
• Paid State Holidays (designated by the Governor annually)
• Fitness Centers in select locations
• Employee discounts with the  STAR Program
• Retirement and deferred compensation programs

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Position Summary & Responsibilities

Position Summary :

The Data Analyst (K0238972)

We are looking for a Data Analyst to help support the Pharmaceutical Program. You will be providing insights that help us to make sound and informed program decisions. There will be routine reports to aggregate to monitor compliance and / or FWA, track utilization and / or cost-savings, project expenditures, and sometimes answer general questions. Your resourcefulness and creativity may be challenged, as there may be times where instructions are given in the form of broad goals and objectives. If you like thinking outside of the box and learning new ideas and developing new techniques, then you might enjoy this job!

Gathers, analyzes, and interprets data using appropriate statistical techniques and computer software to obtain and present findings.Information is used to design, monitor, and analyze the effectiveness of existing Medicaid and health related programs for the State of Kansas.Perform economic modeling using various statistical techniques.Design queries and collect data from Medicaid database system to track multiple funded services to report on usage trends, costs, efficiencies, and effectiveness of health programs.Creates and maintains queries for utilization across managed care encounter data and specific populations when requested. Maps and traces data across multiple systems to identify and assist in resolving problems.Creates and maintains documentation for each report.Data is gathered from agency’s system, other states or other national sources.

Job Responsibilities may include but are not limited to the following :

Performs ad hoc analysis and interprets results for a wide audience including DHCF staff and stakeholders.Provides data for legislative and fiscal impact requests for policy analysis.Responds to written and verbal inquiries concerning Medicaid data.Displays a readiness to expand workload to meet leadership expectation

Maintains professional currency in the DHCF purchased data analytical system as well as use of the latest analytical tools and methods.Maintain professional currency in health care and health care purchasing as these topics pertain to other job tasks.

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