Medicaid Programmer, Healthcare Innovations
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American Institutes for ResearchHealthcare Innovations
Within the United States (U.S.)Full-TimeMiddle
Salary12500 - 166800 USD per year
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Job Details
- Experience
- At least 3 years
- Required Skills
- PythonSQLR
Requirements
- Undergraduate degree in Statistics, Epidemiology, Economics, Health Informatics, Computer Science, or a related field.
- At least 3 years of experience working directly with Medicaid administrative data, including claims and/or encounter data.
- Strong hands-on experience using one or more programming or analytic languages (e.g., SQL, R, Python, STATA, or similar) to manage and analyze large datasets.
- Demonstrated experience producing analytic datasets, summary tables, and figures for research or policy projects.
- Familiarity with Medicaid data structures, coding systems (e.g., ICD, CPT, HCPCS, NDC), and enrollment or eligibility concepts.
- Strong data management and data processing skills.
- Excellent attention to detail and commitment to data accuracy and documentation.
- Strong organizational and time-management skills.
- Ability to clearly communicate technical concepts to non-technical audiences.
- Strong interpersonal skills and ability to collaborate effectively in a multidisciplinary team environment.
- Ability to learn new tools, data structures, and analytic approaches quickly.
Responsibilities
- Work with large-scale Medicaid administrative datasets, including eligibility, enrollment, claims, encounters, and provider files.
- Extract, clean, recode, merge, and de-duplicate complex administrative data from multiple sources.
- Convert and integrate data across analytic environments and formats (e.g., STATA, R, Python, SQL-based systems, mainframe extracts, or cloud-based platforms).
- Perform data quality checks, logic checks, and validation analyses to ensure accuracy and completeness of analytic datasets.
- Handle missing data, conduct outlier analyses, and construct derived variables and analytic measures.
- Develop research-ready datasets to support health policy analysis, program evaluation, and reporting.
- Produce tables, figures, and customized analytic outputs for internal and external stakeholders.
- Contribute to statistical analyses under the direction of senior researchers.
- Write and maintain clear documentation for data processing steps, analytic decisions, and code changes.
- Troubleshoot and revise existing code and workflows to improve performance, reproducibility, and accuracy.
- Provide technical guidance or informal mentoring to junior programming staff, as appropriate.
- Contribute to technical sections of reports and proposals.
- Perform other related duties as assigned.
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