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As a recipient of the Magnet Award for Nursing Excellence, HSS was the first hospital in New York City to receive the distinguished designation. Whether you are early in your career or an expert in your field, you will find HSS an innovative, supportive and inclusive environment.\nWorking with colleagues who love what they do and are deeply committed to our Mission, you too can be part of our transformation across the enterprise.\nEmp Status\nRegular Full timeWork Shift\nDay (United States of America)Compensation Range\nThe base pay scale for this position is $132,000.00 - $201,500.00. In addition, this position will be eligible for additional benefits consistent with the role. The salary of the finalist selected for this role will be determined based on various factors, including but not limited to: scope of role, level of experience, education, accomplishments, internal equity, budget, and subject to Fair Market Value evaluation. The hiring range listed is a good faith determination of potential compensation at the time of this job advertisement and may be modified in the future.What you will be doing\nShort Description:\nThe Hospital for Special Surgery Data & Analytics team is seeking a Director with a dedicated focus on supporting the Payer Strategy & Contracting function. In this role, you will report into the Data & Analytics team while serving as the primary data partner to leaders and team members in Payer Strategy. You will be responsible for translating business priorities into data-driven solutions, serving as a subject matter expert, driving automation, and delivering reporting, analytics, and insights that enable payer strategy and contracting initiatives and negotiations.\nResponsibilities:\nWork closely with the Contracting team to provide analytical support for all contracting efforts, including payer contracting, bundled payment contracting, pay-for-performance contracting, and other emerging reimbursement methodologies.\n\nCreate and maintain models and data products to evaluate the financial success and impact of new contracts, opportunities, and policy changes, building automated processes that can be reused and scaled across multiple contracts and scenarios.\n\nPartner with the Payer Strategy & Contracting team to drive automation - design and manage automated reporting solutions, transitioning existing manual processes into scalable, repeatable workflows within the enterprise data lakehouse.\n\nCollaborate across the Data & Analytics team to align payer strategy data needs with the broader enterprise data strategy.\n\nServe as a subject matter expert in payer strategy analytics, acting as the primary liaison between the Payer Strategy & Contracting team and the Data & Analytics organization.\n\nMentor junior analysts, building technical and analytical capabilities while fostering knowledge of payer strategy and contracting.\n\nQualifications:\nBachelors degree in Data Science, Finance, Economics, Health Administration, or related field (Masters preferred).\n\n7+ years Provider/Payer contracting experience.\n\nStrong understanding of payer contracting concepts, reimbursement methodologies, and healthcare financial drivers.\n\nAdvanced experience with APR-DRG, MS-DRG, Ambulatory Surgery Center groupers, APC, APG, and RBRVS reimbursement methodologies.\n\nProficiency in SQL and experience working with enterprise data platforms.\n\nDemonstrated ability to automate reporting and analytic workflows.\n\nKnowledge of hospital operations, health/insurance benefit plans, revenue cycle claims systems and complex reimbursement methodologies\n\nProven track record of developing models to evaluate financial impact of contracts, policy changes, or new opportunities.\n\nStrong communication skills with the ability to translate complex analytics into clear, actionable insights for non-technical stakeholders.\n\nExperience mentoring or managing analysts, with a focus on developing both technical and business acumen.\n\nComfort working cross-functionally - particularly with finance, contracting, and technical data teams.\n\nWhy join us?\nHospital for Special Surgery is the world’s leading academic medical center focused on musculoskeletal care. 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