Public Health Analyst

Company: Lantana Consulting Group provides services and software for standards-based health information exchange. We have built our expertise through nearly two decades of development and deployment of technical specifications and interoperability solutions. As a distributed company with no single brick and mortar office, Lantana can hire the best available talent and offer a flexible work schedule. We are a rapidly growing Employee-Owned organization who takes pride in improving public health, quality of care, and research.

Primary purpose: Develops and implements validation and evaluation activities for Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) value-based purchasing and quality-reporting programs. Leverages analytical skills and public-health knowledge to provide actionable insights for public health.

 A successful candidate will:

• Provide subject-matter expertise for CMS value-based purchasing and quality-reporting programs.
• Collaborate with the client as part of a multidisciplinary team to plan, develop, and implement project workplan; maintain documentation of processes and procedures.
• Validate numerous value-based purchasing and quality-reporting program measures.
• Coordinate analyses of healthcare-quality measure data in SAS, including assessing reliability and validity and supporting ongoing maintenance and updates of the quality-measure instrument.
• Interpret, summarize, and present findings to the client and relevant stakeholders. 
• Perform data-quality testing.
• Exhibit attention to detail when developing materials, reviewing documentation, troubleshooting issues, and reporting results.

• Master’s degree in Public Health other Health Science field 
• At least seven (7) years of relevant work experience 
• Experience with CMS healthcare-quality measure and/or value-based purchasing programs
• Experience using SAS to import and manipulate data/datasets and conduct analyses to validate data
• Ability to effectively communicate complex data findings to both technical and non-technical audiences
• Ability to work effectively within a multidisciplinary team

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with government contracting, especially with CMS

Additional Job Information:

• This position is 100% work-from-home/remote apart from the annual company meeting, held as conditions allow.
• Lantana is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants for current openings will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, or national origin, veteran status or on the basis of disability. 
• For this position, we are not accepting applicants outside of the United States.