Who We Are
WPS Health Solutions is a leading not-for-profit health insurer in Wisconsin. Our services offer health insurance plans for individuals, families, seniors, and group plans for small to large businesses. We process claims and provide customer service support for beneficiaries of the Medicare program and manage benefits for millions of active-duty and retired military personnel across the U.S. and abroad. In 2021, WPS Health Solutions celebrated 75 years of making health insurance easier for those we serve. Proud to be military and veteran ready.
Our Culture
WPS’ Performance-Based Culture is where the great work and innovations of our people are seen, fueled, and rewarded. We accomplish this by creating an inclusive, empowering employee experience, focusing on People, Work, and Conditions. This results in people bringing their authentic selves to work every day in an organization that successfully adapts to business changes and new opportunities. We are guided by our Purpose: Together, making health care easier for the people we serve.
From 2021 - 2023 WPS Health Solutions has been recognized for several awards including:
- Madison, Wisconsin’s Top Workplaces
- USA Top Workplaces and the cultural excellence awards for Remote Work and Work-Life Flexibility
- Achievers 50 Most Engaged Workplaces® with the further honor of Achievers “Elite 8” winner in the category of Culture Alignment
- DAV Patriot Employer
- VETS Indexes 4 Star Employer
Role Snapshot
Our Senior Data Analyst will provide leadership in creation and delivery of innovative data analysis to identify existing and future opportunities for operational insight in our Government Health Administration (Medicare) line of business. This role would identify existing issues and support divisional strategies of process and technology innovation and profitable growth through the adoption of new industry analytical approaches to ensure continued quality improvement. This also includes mentoring less experienced staff members in analyzing, interpreting, and visualizing claims, clinical data, and customer service data from various sources and recommending best approaches for intervention.
The GHA InSight Data Analysis Team delivers better, faster, and more informed business decisions to stakeholders by finding the optimal intersection between Medicare’s “big data”, data analysis, and modeling to fit customer needs.
What you will do as a Senior Data Analyst:
- Create, test, and deploy new innovative and efficient models, reports, and analyses.
- Assist in ad hoc data requests for operational areas and their Medicare contract requirements, as necessary.
- Present data findings to various levels of staff and collaborate on outcomes.
- Mentor and consult with teammates related to approach, tools, and code necessary for completion of customer requests.
- Act as a subject matter expert regarding healthcare claims data and analytical approaches for customers and teammates.
- Take lead on complicated projects to ensure requests are completed efficiently and accurately in accordance with contract requirements.
- Research, recommend, and master new industry analytical techniques and business intelligence tools.
- Contribute at a high level to relevant workgroup meetings and pursue opportunities to lead.
- Identify, recommend, and implement process improvement changes to existing processes.
How do I know this opportunity is right for me? If you:
- You are a thought leader and know how to mentor, grow, and engage teams.
- You communicate with confidence, clarity, and sound reasoning when discussing concerns, ideas, and suggestions with all levels of staff and management.
- Enjoy working with BIG DATA!
- Are creative, innovative, and get excited about using data differently!
- Seek opportunities to utilize your personal responsibility to interpret and analyze data from various sources and recommend best approaches!
- Are good at presenting technical information to non-technical audiences.
- Have the drive to manage your own projects from start to completion.
- Keep current with industry quality analytic approaches and proficiency with business intelligence tools.
What will I gain from this role?
- Get to perform fun and exploratory data analysis that will have real world business implications!
- Working with a forward thinking and highly collaborative team.
- Learning about the Medicare Program.
- Serving Medicare beneficiaries and actively protecting the Medicare Trust Fund.
- Working in a continuous performance feedback environment.
- Experience working in an environment that serves our Nation’s military, veterans, Guard and Reserves and Medicare beneficiaries.
Minimum Qualifications
- Bachelor's Degree in related field or equivalent post high school and/or related work experience
- 1 year of related work experience.
Highly Preferred Qualifications
- Master’s Degree in Statistics or related field or equivalent post high school and/or related work experience.
- 3 or more years in a clinical or business data analytics role.
- 5 or more years of experience with business intelligence/analytical tools or programming languages (e.g. R, Python, SAP Business Objects, SAS, SQL), interpreting analytic results and creating summarizations for presentations.
- Experience with Medicare, Medicaid, TRICARE, VA, or healthcare claims.
Salary Range
$85,000 to $110,000
The base pay offered for this position may vary within the posted range based on your job-related knowledge, skills, experience and may fall outside the posted range.
Work Location
This role is open to remote work for this opportunity in the following approved states:
Arizona, Colorado, Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, Nevada, New Jersey, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, South Carolina, South Dakota, Texas, Virginia, Wisconsin
Remote Worker Requirements
For remote position, employee is required to meet remote worker requirements, including a designated work station, a wired (Ethernet) connection to the network, and a minimum of 10Mbps downstream connection with at least 1Mbps upstream (can be checked at https://speedtest.net)
Benefits
- Remote work is encouraged but hybrid work options are available
- Performance bonus and/or merit increase opportunities
- 401(k) with dollar-per-dollar match up to 6% of salary (100% vested immediately)
- Competitive paid time off
- Health, dental insurance, Teladoc starts DAY 1
- Review additional benefits here
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The contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor’s legal duty to furnish information. 41 CFR 60-1.35(c)