Contract Data Scientist

Description:

Leading provider of healthcare claims integrity seeking a Data Scientist that looks through large amounts of claims data to identify cases of fraud, waste, and abuse to discover or recover funds for clients (private and government clients). This candidate must be high level individual contributor with entrepreneurial spirit. MUST HAVE GREAT CONSULTATIVE PERSONALITY

MUST HAVE EXPERIENCE WITH HEALTHCARE CLAIMS, FWA

Location: Remote

Keywords: Healthcare Claims, Data Science, Python coding, Fraud Waste and Abuse, Payment Integrity

Responsibilities:

• Applying SQL and machine learning to develop fraud, waste and abuse models looking at claims data
• Presenting results to technical, business and executive level customers
• Visualizing results and building user centric dashboards
• Defining technical and data requirements to address business problems

Qualifications

• Quant degree
• Experience working with healthcare claims and/or medical records.
• Significant experience in data analytics with demonstrable successes. Actual hands-on experience is more important than formal education
• Experience in developing and deploying solutions written in Python or SQL
• Strong experience in defining business requirements and presenting results to business users
• Prior experience deploying analytical models to production