About This Role
This Statistician position involves managing data and conducting statistical analyses related to Medicare and Medicaid program integrity within the Division of Provider Investigations and Audits or the Division of Plan Oversight and Accountability. The role focuses on applying various statistical techniques to prepare program integrity estimates.
Responsibilities
- Conduct research and statistical studies in the preparation of Medicare, Medicaid, and/or Affordable Care Act (ACA) program integrity estimates
- Apply a variety of statistical techniques such as logistic regression, survival models, analysis of frequency distributions, analysis of variance, and determining confidence limits
- Analyze tabulated statistical data and use professional judgment to determine what is reliable and of value on the basis of established statistical principles and criteria
- Assist with developing a plan of analysis incorporating advanced statistics, execution of the analysis, and interpretation of the findings
- Identify and acquire data sources, edit and evaluate the quality of data, convert the data to the most efficient computerized form, perform and document computer programming
Requirements
- Degree: 15 semester hours in statistics (or in mathematics and statistics, provided at least 6 semester hours were in statistics), and 9 additional semester hours in one or more of the following: physical or biological sciences, medicine, education, or engineering; or in the social sciences including demography, history, economics, social welfare, geography, international relations, social or cultural anthropology, health sociology, political science, public administration, psychology, etc. Credit toward meeting statistical course requirements should be given for courses in which 50 percent of the course content appears to be statistical methods, e.g., courses that included studies in research methods in psychology or economics such as tests and measurements or business cycles, or courses in methods of processing mass statistical data such as tabulating methods or electronic data processing (TRANSCRIPTS REQUIRED)
- OR Combination of education and experience: courses as shown above, plus appropriate experience or additional education. The experience should have included a full range of professional statistical work such as (a) sampling, (b) collecting, computing, and analyzing statistical data, and (c) applying statistical techniques such as measurement of central tendency, dispersion, skewness, sampling error, simple and multiple correlation, analysis of variance, and tests of significance (TRANSCRIPTS REQUIRED)
- For the GS-09 level: one (1) year of qualifying specialized experience equivalent to the GS-07 grade level in the Federal government to include: applying statistical methods such as regression, analysis of frequency distributions, and analysis of variance; and using statistical software packages to extract, tabulate, and compile statistical data
