HEMA Analyst II

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Diversity - Innovation - Caring - Global Collaboration - Winning Spirit - High Performance

At Boston Scientific, we’ll give you the opportunity to harness all that’s within you by working in teams of diverse and high-performing employees, tackling some of the most important health industry challenges. With access to the latest tools, information and training, we’ll help you in advancing your skills and career. Here, you’ll be supported in progressing – whatever your ambitions.

About the role:

Thank you for your interest in the Health Economics and Market Access (HEMA) position with Boston Scientific’s Peripheral Intervention division. Do you have a passion for improving access to care? Are you excited to build programs to inform healthcare policy, articulate the value of medical technology, and engage with providers, healthcare systems, and payers? Do you have the desire to be in a highly visible and influential role in a well-established medical device industry leader? Then you may be an excellent candidate for an Analyst role within our Health Economics and Market Access team supporting Boston Scientific’s Peripheral Interventions business. A fundamental priority for this position will be supporting the development and implementation of health policy and reimbursement initiatives, through collaboration with cross-functional colleagues and external stakeholders.

This is a Remote position with a preference for candidates based in the Twin Cities, MN area. Out-of-state candidates will be also considered.

Your responsibilities include:

• Primary owner and driver of PI HEMA analytics and analytics resources to address reimbursement, coding, and documentation inquiries from divisional sales force and key external stakeholders (e.g., hospitals, clinicians, investigator sites, professional societies)
• Utilize knowledge of available data assets (e.g., Medicare claims data, CMS payment information) to identify research opportunities and define/execute analyses in support of business unit objectives
• Monitor and assess health policy updates impacting the business’ emerging technologies and commercially marketed products. Develop related communications to inform senior management
• Recommend, select, maintain, and update health economic and reimbursement resources for the PI business unit, including coding guides and reimbursement calculators
• Develop and promote analytical best practices within and across product franchises. Research and apply new techniques for advanced analyses, create, monitor, review, and improve methods and techniques continuously.
• Support new product development teams to ensure health economics and reimbursement needs are incorporated into product development plans and timelines.
• Provide appropriate in-service training to sales, marketing, clinical, regulatory, and legal to increase awareness and understanding of health economics and reimbursement competencies and their role in supporting a product’s success.
• Collaborate with functional colleagues to inform strategic activities related to health economic research, health policy and business development.

What we’re looking for:

Transferrable Skills:

• Analytical experience utilizing large data sets to draw conclusions about market size, targeting, opportunity assessment, with the ability to collect, organize, analyze, and disseminate significant amounts of information with attention to detail and accuracy.
• Customer-facing experience (i.e., customer service, complaint handling, etc.)
• Ability to analyze and interpret payment, medical and coverage policies (i.e., government policy, etc.)

Required Qualifications:

• Occasional travel required.
• Bachelor’s degree or post-secondary education
• 3–5-years of experience in health care, preferably with experience working with new medical technologies in the medical device arena
• Mastery of platform tools and software applications, separately and in combination, such as IQVIA, Definitive, flat files and Medicare data files, XLS, Tableau, PowerBI, Domo, with ability to envision, create, translate, and routinely deliver integrated data visualization tools for specific inquiries, KPIs, trends, dashboards, presentations, calculators, etc. for a variety of users.
• Technical expertise regarding relational database, data models, database design development, data mining and segmentation techniques, and programming languages (SQL, Python, or R)
• Knowledge of statistics and experience using statistical packages for analyzing datasets (Excel, AWS, SPSS, SAS etc.)
• Demonstrated knowledge of U.S. healthcare systems including health policy trends, payment systems (inpatient/outpatient/physician/ASC) and associated documentation/coding requirements.
• Ability to advance initiatives independently and in a fast-paced matrix environment with minimal supervision
• Can-do attitude with attention to detail, and oriented to precision, accuracy, continuous learning and developing skills
• Excellent verbal, written and presentation communications skills and Adept at queries, report writing, and presenting findings
• Computer literacy (Microsoft Office Suite, iPad applications)
• Alignment with BSC Values and Peripheral Interventions DNA

Preferred Qualifications:

• Candidate is based in the Twin Cities, MN area
• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in public health, health economics, epidemiology, biostatistics, health care administration or related discipline highly desirable
• Familiarity with interventional cardiology / structural heart procedures and products
• Coding certifications (e.g., Certified Professional Coder)
• Demonstrated responsiveness and sense of urgency when pursuing goals and completing tasks
• Demonstrated ability to set and manage priorities, manage multiple projects
• Experience working as part of both functional and cross-functional teams

Requisition ID: 578229

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So, choosing a career with Boston Scientific (NYSE: BSX) isn’t just business, it’s personal. And if you’re a natural problem-solver with the imagination, determination, and spirit to make a meaningful difference to people worldwide, we encourage you to apply and look forward to connecting with you!

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