Hi, One of our client is looking for SAS Advanced HealthcareProgrammer / Data Analyst for 6 Months+ contract opportunity at Columbus, OH, Please respond with your Visa Status ,Updated profile, Current location, Availability and Expected rate ASAP * Position: SAS Advanced Healthcare Programmer / Data Analyst Consultant Location: Chicago, IL Duration:4 Months+* Primary Skill Set: Qualifications & Job Description: Required Health Care Data Integration Experience & SKILLS:
*** (Clinical SAS programmers supporting clinical trials and submissions are NOT applicable for this role.) *** The candidate must have experience with health care data and large databases, including some or all of the following : •Working with Provider healthcare claims and market data (such as physicians, hospitals, labs data) •Experience with CMS-1500 &CMS-1450/UB-04 data and claim forms; EDI X12 837; •Experience working with HIPAA and/or HEDIS, PQRI (Physician Quality Reporting Initiative); •Experience working with ICD-9 and ICD-10 codes (diagnosis, procedure (CPT), laboratory (LOINC), revenue (CMS-1450), and drug (NDC); •Experience working with Membership files; •Experience with Rate Setting; •Experience with Utilization measures; •Experience with Provider files and Health Care Provider Taxonomy Codes; •HL7, CCD (Continuity of Care Document); •Health care information exchanges; •EMR (Electronic Medical Record) /EHR (Electronic Health Record); •Leveraging this for processing, developing, maintaining and analyzing data and data preparation and validation routines to support the reporting of clinical measures and financial initiatives and cost information for managed care organizations; Background: The End Client receives raw data from hundreds of different data sources, so the Analyst will need to be part of the integration process of all this data into the End Client’s data warehouse. As part of this process, the Analyst/Consultant will seek to determine anomalies and issues with the data, and use protocols for such things as data validation. The Consultant’s duties will include: •Develop and maintain data preparation and validation routines to support the reporting of clinical metrics and cost information. •Automate data load and data analysis programs with a goal of improving efficiencies across customers. •Develop innovative and/or customized templates and report formats. •Interface with customers and vendors on ETL processes and map data from disparate sources into data warehouse formats. •Process and analyze data to support clinical and financial initiatives for managed care organizations. •Perform ad-hoc analysis of data for the customers. Skill sets: The Customer requires a Senior Advanced Base SAS programmer. Essential duties and responsibilities include the following, withhands-on, proven experience with SAS programming to maintain and develop advanced SAS coding techniques to write maximum efficient and performance optimized code. Services may include focus on and require the Consultant to: 1.Apply and demonstrate expertise with efficient DATA step, SQL programming, SAS Macro programming, ODS, Reporting and Summary procedures and SAS Array processing. 2.Must have project experience with implementing advanced SAS coding techniques to optimize performance and have developed best practices for efficient coding due to constraints of hardware storage and memory. 3.Must have project experience with sophisticated Base SAS development for performance enhancement and advanced SAS Dataset storage best practices. 4.Project experience with efficiently handling and managing massive volumes of data (large SAS Datasets with upwards of tens of millions of records and/or terabytes of data storage). 5.Have good oral and written communication skills. 6.Lead and/or actively participate in SAS knowledge-sharing activities. 7.Must be able to read, and understand existing coding and processing to troubleshoot and resolved issues as they arise. Demonstrate the ability to work with little direct supervision; Excellent troubleshooting skills; Imaginative, inquisitive, with a self-motivating personality and a strong work ethic; Customer focused demeanor. Candidates should also have the following skillsets: •Experience coding in SAS and at times, possiblyEnterprise Guide (EG). •Experience extracting data using SAS/ACCESS to OLEDB. •Experience manipulating data in SAS using DATA step, ARRAYs, Macros, SQL. •Experience with reporting techniques and procedures in SAS (e.g., PROC REPORT, PROC SUMMARY, ODS andexport functionality to Excel). PROC REPORT experience is helpful, but not critical. •Ability to develop new data loads to existing data warehouse. •Experience with healthcare data and large databases (as defined previously). Regards Murthy Pasumarthy Senior Talent Acquisition Specialist KMM Technologies, Inc. SBA 8(A), MD/DC MSDC and VA SWaM Certified Tel: 240-200-9330| Fax: (866) 856 3684 Email : [email protected] www.kmmtechnologies.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Oracle-Projects" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/oracle-projects. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
