Job Title: Programmer Analyst
Business Area: Health Care Services
Location: Boston
Date Posted: 12/08/2009
Req #: bcbs-00002421
Description:
Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts is an Equal Opportunity Employment/Affirmative Action Employer. Applicants are considered for all positions without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, or any other characteristics protected by law.
This position plays a major role in the development and maintenance of SAS programs used to measure various quality metrics in support of new contracting strategies and provide timely actionable data/reports on a production basis. Candidate must be a self starter, willing to initiate projects and anticipate customer needs. Position requires candidate to work effectively as a team player and manage assignments within tight deadlines.
Major Responsibilities
* Development of SAS programs which measure quality performance metrics used in the measurement & evaluation of providers engaged in incentive programs & other clinical quality based contracts.
* Monthly production and maintenance of SAS reporting applications.
* Ad-hoc programming support for departmental projects and corporate initiatives in concert with other members of Performance Measurement Evaluation, and other key areas within the organization.
Qualifications
* Proficiency in writing maintainable, supportable, well-documented SAS code
* Experience with SAS in developing standard reporting packages
* Provide ad-hoc reporting using SAS and Access in support of contracting initiatives
* Strong focus on data manipulation including file merges and data step programming
* Ability to extract, cleanse and integrate medical and pharmacy claims and membership data from various platforms and sources
* Creative problem solving skills
* Strong verbal and communication skills
* Excellent customer focus and ability to work effectively in cross-functional teams
* Strong quality control ethic, ability to assess accuracy of output at report level as well as investigate potential issues at a granular level
* Ability to handle multiple tasks with competing priorities
Experience and Education:
* Masters or commensurate experience
* 4+ years SAS programming experience required
* Development and use of PC applications for data analysis (specifically spreadsheet and database systems (MS Excel, MS Access)
* Prior experience working with medical and pharmacy claims data at either a health plan, provider group or health data vendor