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Medicaid Programmer, Healthcare Innovations

2 weeks, 5 days ago

United States

Full-time

Mid Level

Data Engineer

Software Development

Python R SQL

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American Institutes for Research

Professional Services

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Founded 1946

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Description

Work with large-scale Medicaid administrative datasets, including eligibility, enrollment, claims, encounter, 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 such as 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.

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 such as 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 such as ICD, CPT, HCPCS, and NDC, and enrollment or eligibility concepts.
Experience working with CMS Medicaid and Medicare Research Identifiable Files (RIF) and/or secure data environments such as the CMS Virtual Research Data Center preferred, but not required.
Experience supporting proposal development or technical write-ups preferred, but not required.
Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the U.S. on a full-time basis.
Employment-based visa sponsorship, including H-1B sponsorship, is not available for this position.
Depending on project work, qualified candidates may need to meet certain residency requirements.

Benefits

Flexible remote work within the United States or from one of AIR’s U.S. office locations.
Anticipated annual salary range of $125,000 to $166,800 USD.
AIR’s Total Rewards Program with competitive compensation.
Equal employment opportunity and affirmative action employer policies.
Reasonable accommodation support during the employment process for candidates with disabilities.

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