Senior Healthcare Data Analyst
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Machinify is a leading healthcare intelligence company with expertise across the payment continuum, delivering unmatched value, transparency, and efficiency to health plan clients across the country. Deployed by over 85 health plans, including many of the top 20, and representing more than 270 million lives, Machinify brings together a fully configurable and content-rich, AI-powered platform along with best-in-class expertise.
As a Senior Healthcare Data Analyst, you will sit at the intersection of domain expertise and data engineering: translating raw claims feeds into trusted canonical models, driving payment integrity insights, and serving as the internal expert on how claims flow through adjudication. This role is for someone who knows healthcare data cold and is excited to pair that knowledge with modern AI tooling to move faster and build smarter.
What You'll Do
- Claims mapping & transformation —Design and implement data transformations that convert raw medical and institutional claims (837 EDI, UB-04, CMS-1500) into Machinify’s canonical models, applying healthcare coding standards (ICD-10-CM/PCS, CPT, HCPCS) throughout.
- Data quality & pipeline validation —Perform detailed audits to detect, troubleshoot, and resolve issues impacting accuracy and completeness; write SQL and Spark SQL queries to validate pipeline output end-to-end.
- Platform expertise —Develop deep working knowledge of Machinify’s platform—from data ingestion through claims adjudication—so that analytical solutions are accurate, traceable, and business-aligned.
- Payment integrity —Identify overpayment patterns, COB issues, and billing edit opportunities by applying expertise in payer policy, CMS regulations, and provider reimbursement methodologies.
- AI-assisted workflows —Actively drive AI adoption: prompt and iterate with LLMs to accelerate analysis, identify manual processes ripe for automation, and contribute to AI-assisted pipeline development.
- Client onboarding —Support onboarding of new client data feeds, ensuring smooth integration with minimal disruption and clear documentation of transformation logic and lineage.
- Cross-functional partnership —Partner with data engineers, data science, clinical staff, and product managers to translate complex healthcare requirements into scalable data solutions; collaborate with data scientists to enable advanced analytics and ML use cases.
- Subject matter leadership —Serve as the go-to SME on claims coding, adjudication rules, and payer policy—mentoring analysts and engineers and advising stakeholders on risk, trends, and business impact.
What You'll Bring
- Bachelor’s degree in Business, Computer Science, Health Informatics, or a related field.
- 5+ years working directly with healthcare claims data — 837 EDI, encounter data, medical billing — ideally at a health plan, payment integrity vendor, or healthcare analytics firm.
- Deep knowledge of claim types (professional and institutional), coding systems (ICD-10-CM/PCS, CPT, HCPCS), and standard form formats (UB-04, CMS-1500).
- Hands-on payment integrity experience: overpayment detection, COB, billing edits, or claim editing logic.
- Familiarity with CMS regulations and commercial payer guidelines as they apply to claims adjudication and payment policy.
- Advanced SQL proficiency; comfortable writing complex analytical queries against large datasets.
- Solid understanding of data modeling concepts and best practices for analytics.
- Strong communicator — able to discuss healthcare process and payment logic directly with health plan clients, clinicians, and non-technical stakeholders.
- Self-starter with strong ownership, accountability, and the ability to manage multiple concurrent initiatives.
Preferred
- Working knowledge of provider reimbursement methodologies — MS-DRG/APR-DRG pricing, fee schedules, per diem, and capitation.
- Proficiency with Spark SQL or a comparable distributed query engine for large-scale data environments.
- Exposure to ETL/ELT pipeline development or close collaboration with data engineers on pipeline design.
- Exposure to value-based care arrangements or risk adjustment (HCC coding, RADV).
What We Offer
- Work from anywhere in the US! Machinify is digital-first.
- Full Medical/Dental/Vision for employees & their families
- Flexible and trusting environment where you’ll feel empowered to do your best work
- Unlimited FTO
- Competitive salary, equity, 401(k) including employer match
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Machinify
View Company ProfileMachinify is a groundbreaking AI-driven HealthTech and financial technology company that fundamentally reshapes the massive healthcare payment integrity ecosystem. Headquartered in Palo Alto, California, the company operates a powerful "AI operating system" designed to seamlessly untangle complex healthcare data, eliminate systemic friction, and ensure accurate billing. Under the hood, the Machinify platform unifies medical records, claims, policies, and complex contracts into a single data layer, leveraging healthcare-specific foundation models and autonomous AI agents to audit, coordinate, and process payments with industry-leading speed and precision. Recently expanding its massive reach by acquiring Performant Healthcare, the platform serves as an end-to-end payment engine. Their primary target audience spans major health plans—including 18 of the top 20 commercial, Medicare, and Medicaid payers in the US—that need to drastically reduce administrative costs, combat false positives, and recover billions in lost revenue. What sets Machinify apart in the traditionally rigid healthcare infrastructure is its ability to deploy highly flexible, transparent AI that continuously learns via "human-in-the-loop" feedback, driving both massive cost avoidance for insurers and lower overall healthcare costs for the entire ecosystem.
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