HEDIS Analyst Role at Molina - Grow in Healthcare Data in Columbus
Career & Market Insight
This is a mid-level healthcare data analyst role sitting at the intersection of data engineering and managed care quality — a niche with strong and growing demand given the expansion of value-based care contracts and CMS quality reporting mandates.
Compensation context: Molina mentions a competitive package but provides no figures. Market rates for HEDIS/risk adjustment analysts with 2–4 years of experience typically range from $70,000–$95,000 annually in the US, with senior roles reaching $110K+. Certifications like CPHQ or CHCA can meaningfully boost earning potential.
Skills developed here are high-value:
- Databricks SQL and Azure/AWS cloud data platforms — in-demand across healthcare and beyond.
- HEDIS subject matter expertise — a specialized, relatively scarce competency that commands premium salaries in managed care.
- Power BI and advanced Excel for healthcare analytics — transferable to pharma, health tech, and consulting.
- Agile data workflows and root-cause analysis methodologies.
Green flags: Molina is a Fortune 500 managed care company with stable government-contracted revenue (Medicaid/Medicare), offering job security. The role has clear upward paths toward senior analyst, data engineering, or quality management leadership.
Watch for: The breadth of duties (QA, ad hoc reports, stakeholder education, pre-production testing) could signal a lean team where one analyst wears many hats. Clarify team size and workload expectations during interviews.
Job Summary
Provides analyst support for health plan risk and quality reporting activities. Designs and develops custom health plan reports to support local interventions, provider outreach, and tracks outcomes of initiatives. Educates users on how to use reports related to risk and quality/Healthcare Effectiveness Data and Information Set (HEDIS) for Medicaid, Medicare, Marketplace and Medicare/Medicare-Medicaid Plan (MMP). Assists with research, development, and completion of special quality performance improvement projects including root-cause analysis.
Essential Job Duties
- Captures and documents health plan quality reporting requirements, builds custom reports, and educates health plan users on how to use reports.
- Builds intervention strategy reporting for the risk and quality interventions and measures gap closure.
- Builds ad hoc quality reports as requested to track HEDIS performance and supplemental data monitoring.
- Develops quality assurance (QA) custom health plan reports related to Risk and Quality/HEDIS for Medicaid, Marketplace and Medicare/MMP.
- Develops custom health plan reports related to managed care data including medical claims, pharmacy, lab and HEDIS rates.
- Collaborates with the national risk and quality team on testing of pre-production reporting for assigned health plan.
- Calculates and tracks gap closure and intervention outcome reporting for the assigned health plan.
- Works in an agile business environment to derive meaningful information out of complex and large organizational data sets through data analysis, data mining, verification, scrubbing, and root-cause analysis.
- Conducts root-cause analysis for business data issues.
- Analyzes data sets and trends for anomalies, outliers, trend changes, and opportunities using Databricks SQL, Power BI, Microsoft Excel, and other techniques to determine significance and relevance.
- Assists with research, development and completion of special quality-related projects as requested by internal departments or in support of requests from regulatory agencies, contracting agencies, or other external organizations.
- Serves as a key partner to assist with testing changes in the Data Warehouse platform and performs transparent upgrades to reporting modules to ensure no impact to end users.
- Conducts preliminary and post-impact analyses for any logic and source code changes for data and reporting modules, keeping other variables constant that are not of focus.
- Represents as a HEDIS subject matter expert and supports health plans to improve performance on underperforming quality measures.
Required Qualifications
- At least 2 years of experience mapping, scrubbing, scrapping, and cleaning data, and analysis experience related to HEDIS and/or risk adjustment, and 1 year of experience in a managed care organization, or equivalent combination of relevant education and experience.
- Analytical mindset with excellent attention to detail.
- Experience working with complex data including quantifying, measuring, and analyzing financial/performance management and utilization metrics.
- Experience working with Microsoft T-SQL, Databricks SQL, and Power BI.
- Experience writing complex SQL queries, functions, procedures and data design.
- Experience with Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services (AWS), or Hadoop.
- Ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment.
- Strong business acumen with the ability to connect data insights to strategic goals.
- Self-starter with a continuous improvement mindset.
- Effective verbal and written communication skills.
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office suite (including advanced Excel) and applicable software programs.
Preferred Qualifications
- Certified Professional in Healthcare Quality (CPHQ).
- Certified HEDIS Compliance Auditor (CHCA).
- Registered Nurse — if licensed, license must be active and unrestricted in state of practice.
To all current Molina employees: If you are interested in applying for this position, please apply through the Internal Job Board.
Molina Healthcare offers a competitive benefits and compensation package. Molina Healthcare is an Equal Opportunity Employer (EOE) M/F/D/V.