Principal Researcher, Healthcare Quality Measure Development
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American Institutes for ResearchHealthcare Quality
United StatesFull-TimePrincipal
Salary147600 - 196800 USD per year
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Job Details
- Experience
- 7 years
- Required Skills
- PythonSQLData Analysis
Requirements
- Ph.D. in Economics, Health Services Research, or a related field with a minimum of 7 years of relevant work experience managing and conducting research or related work or Master’s degree and at least 11 years of relevant experience.
- Minimum of 5 years project leadership experience or large task leadership experience on complex implementation, analytics, research, or evaluation projects.
- Direct experience with CMS/CMMI quality measurement, including alternative payment models or model evaluation.
- Deep familiarity with quality measure specifications, measure stewardship, certification processes, and use of measure repositories/tools.
- Experience with Medicare and Medicaid quality measures, including claims‑based, practice‑based, patient‑reported, and state‑based measures.
- Proven track record of winning or contributing to winning new business with CMS or other HHS agencies.
- Advanced technical expertise in quality measurement (development, refinement, specification review, testing, validation).
- Strong leadership, organizational, and interpersonal skills.
- Extensive experience in conceptualizing, analyzing, and contributing to large‑scale federally funded projects.
- Excellent written communication skills with a commitment to accuracy, clarity, and evidence based messaging.
- Ability to collaborate effectively with multidisciplinary teams and external partners.
- Strong strategic thinking and ability to see the broader context of complex research and implementation projects.
Responsibilities
- Lead construction, interpretation, and computation of quality measures across Medicare and Medicaid model components.
- Provide expert guidance on quality measure use across key CMS model functions (e.g., performance-based payment, monitoring).
- Advise CMS on implications of measure updates for feasibility, administrative burden, interoperability, and alignment with national frameworks.
- Serve as senior advisor for quality measurement strategy for CMS/CMMI models, including annual review, refinement, assessment of specification changes, and quantitative/qualitative evaluation of measure performance.
- Oversee measure computation using claims, practice based, state based, and beneficiary level data.
- Ensure analytic rigor and accuracy in all measure calculations and reporting.
- Lead or contribute to complex research and analytic tasks, ensuring high quality, clarity, and CMS‑ready deliverables.
- Direct large, complex implementation and monitoring or evaluation projects—or a portfolio of smaller projects—ensuring alignment with federal requirements and high-quality delivery, on time and on budget.
- Serve as a thought partner to AIR leadership on work conducted for CMS/CMMI, interpreting federal priorities, model goals, and policy developments.
- Lead or significantly contribute to proposal development, including designing methodological approaches, reviewing narratives for soundness, and leading staffing and budgeting decisions.
- Coach, mentor, and support junior and midcareer staff, setting developmental goals and modeling high quality technical and analytic work.
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