Researcher, Healthcare Transformations Quality Measurement

AIR’s Healthcare Transformations department is seeking a Researcher to serve as a task and project leader on a broad portfolio of health policy work, with a primary focus on quality measurement. In this role, the Researcher will support the development, testing, implementation, and maintenance of quality measures; oversee analytic workflows and quality assurance processes.

The ideal candidate will bring knowledge and experience working with federal agencies, particularly the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), among others.

Candidates hired for the position may work remotely within the United States (U.S.) or from one of our U.S. office locations. This does not include U.S. territories.

Responsibilities

• Support the development, testing, implementation, and maintenance of quality measures.
• Support the development of measure specifications.
• Specify, oversee, and interpret descriptive and statistical analyses of large, complex datasets.
• Prepare and lead technical expert panel discussions to elicit input on measure gaps, specifications and testing results.
• Critically evaluate literature in support of measure specifications.
• Critically evaluate testing results against CMS’s Consensus-Based Entity evaluation criteria.
• Synthesize feedback from across various sources to develop recommendations and improvements for quality measures.
• Interpret CMS quality program rules.