Your Role

The Clinical Quality Analytics and Informatics team delivers best-in-class clinical quality analytics and informatics to enable high quality and affordable member-centered care. Our data, intelligence, and actionable insights help drive quality strategy, performance improvement, and regulatory reporting.

The Clinical Quality Analyst - Senior will report to the Clinical Quality Manager or Senior Manager. In this role you will provide data, analytic and reporting support for the Clinical Quality Department to improve Blue Shield of California and Promise Health Plan quality performance for regulatory and accreditation requirements including National Committee for Quality Assurance, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid and Department Health Care Service.Your WorkIn this role, you will:Conduct independent analysis of high complexity under moderate supervision and guidance, develop novel analyses and reportsDevelop documentation and create and execute workplans for analyses of high complexityProduce analysis of high complexity under the guidance and direction of Clinical Quality Analyst – Consultant or Principal or ManagerDesign, build, and enhance data systems and applications so that they better serve specific reporting requirementsIdentify business risks relating to report design and productionCollect data from various internal systems (example Claims processing or membership systems) and external systems (EMR/EHR) and converts those data to actionable insights to guide business decision making for BSC populations' health management and quality of careProduce monthly provider and/or employer group specific reports based on HEDIS measures in alignment with reporting quality ratings systems such as NCQA Stars/Accreditation, Medicare Stars, Medi-Cal Managed Care Accountability Sets, Quality Transformation Initiative and Quality Rating SystemPartner with the HEDIS data team, Clinical Quality Analytics and Medical Record Review teams to support HEDIS performance improvement initiativesYour Knowledge and ExperienceRequires a bachelor’s degree in health science, quantitative social science, public health, health services research or business or equivalent experiencePrefer an MPH, MBA, MS, MA, RN, or RHIA in health science, quantitative social science, public health, health services research or businessRequires at least 2 years of SAS/SQL programming experienceRequires at least 5 years of prior operational and / or data analysis experience, experience in database structures, and standard query and reporting toolsProficient in MS Office – Word, Excel and PowerpointRequires at least 2 years of programming using inpatient claims, outpatient encounters, membership, pharmacy or laboratory data.Requires at least 2 years of experience with ICD (International Classification of Diseases) codes, CPT (Current Procedural Terminology) codes, Diagnostic Related Group (APR-DRG/MS-DRG) codes or Healthcare Common Procedure Coding System (HCPCS) codesRequires at least 3 years of experience in Health Care (managed care, academic, or gov't payer)Requires at least 1 year of experience working with NCQA HEDIS quality measuresRequires at least 1 year of experience with NCQA Health Plan Rating, CMS Medicare Advantage Star Rating or Medi-Cal Managed Care Accountability Sets (MCAS)