Job Details
Our client is seeking a Health Economist experienced in developing cost estimates for potential legislation and analyzing data from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to quantify the financial impacts of regulatory proposals to healthcare providers and other stakeholders.
Have you worked with MedPAC? Or specifically have Congressional Budget Office experience?
If so, we are interested in speaking with you.
You will leverage quantitative data to shape client response to federal health policy developments. In this role you will support these efforts by helping clients understand how changes in proposed legislation will impact Congressional Budget Office (CBO) cost estimates, how regulatory changes through Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) proposed and final rules will financially impact healthcare stakeholders (providers, patients, manufacturers, and insurers), and in performing other data analysis as needed.
Responsibilities:
- Develop cost estimates that follow Congressional Budget Office (CBO) guidelines and best practices for legislative proposals, including estimating how proposed legislation will financially impact government deficits and spending for Medicare trust funds.
- Provide subject matter expertise to clients on questions related to traditional Medicare fee-for-service payment systems (e.g., outpatient prospective payment system, inpatient prospective payment system, Medicare physician fee schedule)
- Quantify the financial impacts to healthcare providers, patients, manufacturers, and other stakeholders from proposed and finalized regulatory changes through CMS proposed and final rules.
- Summarize qualitatively and quantitatively key changes pertinent to clients from legislative and regulatory proposals.
- Analyze Medicare claims and other healthcare datasets to inform business and policy strategy recommendations for clients and prepare reports of findings to support policy/advocacy activities.
Qualifications:
- Experience developing CBO-like cost estimates for proposed legislation.
- Familiarity with traditional Medicare fee-for-service payment policies (e.g., outpatient prospective payment system, hospital inpatient prospective payment system, Medicare physician fee schedule)
- Experience quantifying the financial impacts of proposed and final rules from CMS on healthcare providers.
- In-depth knowledge of SAS
- Familiarity with major healthcare industry stakeholders (associations, advocates, and government agencies).
- Experience analyzing Medicare claims data and/or other large data sets.
Education:
- Bachelor's degree in related field (advanced degree preferred)
You must be commutable to Washington, DC daily (with hybrid options).