Market Pricing Analyst

 

Position: Market Pricing Analyst, Market Analytics

Healthcare Bluebook is a leading provider of healthcare cost and quality transparency solutions. What does that mean? That means that we help people find high quality healthcare and a fair price. Who doesn’t want that? That also means that we are one of the fastest growing companies in one of the hottest spaces in healthcare (which is also one of the top growth industries in the US). That is a lot of heat and fast growth. How fast? Really fast. And we need someone great to join our analytics team and help us change the world.

 

Your Job Will Be to:

Help the Market Analytics team analyze medical claims and other data to develop market-specific pricing analysis.  In plain English?  You get to crunch vast amounts of data to figure out who’s providing a fair value, and who’s ripping people off.  You will be expected to learn and eventually master healthcare industry pricing.  Our team values new ideas, and you will have the opportunity to perform original research, propose new approaches to problems, and contribute to an innovative team environment. 

 

What You Need to Be Great:

·        Education (Bachelor’s degree or greater) in a quantitative field such as statistics, mathematics, engineering, computer science, finance, or economics (or equivalent experience)

·        Data analysis experience

·        Curiosity, critical thinking, and the will to search until you find the answer

·        Exceptional attention to detail

·        Be self-motivated and self-directed

·        Be comfortable working with messy data and ambiguous results

·        Overwhelming desire to test your assumptions and double-check your own results

·        Oh, and you must be fun

 

Bonus Points:

·        Experience working deeply with Excel, and using advanced functions, Pivot Tables, and VBA

·        Healthcare experience or background

·        Understanding of medical claims data

·        Understanding of diagnosis and procedure coding terminology

·        Programming skill, especially in Python

·        Experience in SQL

·        Do you sing opera, play a mean game of foosball, make outstanding home-brew, have your own Spotify artist channel or perform as an acrobat?  OK, none of these things are required, but you’d fit right in with your hard working and fun loving colleagues.  Bluebook is a great community where you can do great work with awesome people.  We work hard, but remember to have lives outside of the office

                                                                       

What You’ll Do:

·        Become an expert in healthcare industry pricing

·        Analyze medical claims and other data to support pricing evaluation

·        Use tools such as SQL, Excel, and Python to translate analysis into actionable recommendations

·        Develop market specific pricing analysis

·        Develop client specific financial and economic analysis

·        Work independently and take initiative

·        Present analyses to internal and external clients

·        Contribute to the ongoing development of analytics tools and processes

·        Contribute ideas and perspective; propose new approaches to problems

·        Help build a creative, efficient, and fun team environment

 

What You’ll Learn:

·        The ins and outs of healthcare claims data and industry pricing

·        How to use SQL, Excel, and Python to quickly analyze large amounts of data

·        How to manage large, open-ended projects

·        How to explain complex technical details to a general audience

Where Your Desk is Located:

·        We need you to spend your days (at least the weekdays) with us at Healthcare Bluebook World Headquarters in scenic Nashville, TN