We currently have an opening for an Advisory ServicesAnalyst to join project teams that provide technical assistance and operationalsupport for Medicare payment policies and programs. We are looking forindividuals who can support current and emerging work related to Medicareprograms focused on implementing, monitoring, and improving value-based careand alternative payment models. Particularly, this role will include providing operationalsupport to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to help developand/or implement new value-based payment policies and programs and/or providingtechnical assistance to stakeholders, such as state and federal health agenciesor health care providers. Additionally, as needed, Advisory Services Analystswill work on or support project management, change management, and businessdevelopment. Analysts will likely be staffed on 2-3 projects at a time, withmany projects requiring client contact.
Across all projects, Advisory Services Analysts areexpected to:
• Participate actively and thoughtfully in multidisciplinary teams that help implement, support, and monitor Medicare policies and programs
• Provide the direction and organization needed to help keep tasks or projects on time and on budget and facilitate communications across and between internal and external stakeholders
• Apply analytic thinking to support clients in the development of quality improvement strategies or technical assistance plans based on available data and subject matter expertise
• Bring creative ideas to the development of proposals for new projects
Specific project or new business development activitiesmay include:
• Supporting the implementation of alternative payment models that seek to innovate the Medicare program
• Providing technical assistance to health care providers, state agencies, or federal staff including designing webinars and other virtual events or responding to questions from stakeholders
• Authoring client memos, technical assistance tools, issue briefs, chapters of reports, webinar or virtual event presentations, and interview and focus group protocols
• Supporting quantitative analysis and data-oriented tasks needed to implement and analyze payment policies and programs
• Supporting project management and operations activities, such as monitoring designing and implementing tools and processes to help organize data and manage teams