Hiring: Sr. Associate, Medical Economics Company: Hopscotch Primary Care Location: Chicago, IL Job Posted Time: 2026-09-16 13:33:49 Target Skills & Keywords : Change Management, EHR, Foundry, Microsoft Excel, SQL About the job Experience: •3+ years of experience in healthcare analytics or medical economics (payer, provider, health system, ACO, or VBC). Required Skills: •Actively facilitate and support in-house build of Hopscotch's cost categorization capability – including customizations, updates for new code and mappings, and change management. •Own the ongoing maintenance, enhancements, governance, change control, and documentation for Hopscotch's payer data and cost categorization capabilities. •Build and maintain the medical economics reporting suite (e.g., SQL, PBI, Excel) and support IBNR estimation, cohort forecasting, and paid-risk pacing. •Review monthly outputs to surface cost drivers and emerging trends, distinguishing real movement from the impact of incomplete claims and statistical noise. •Analyze medical cost trend across factors such as unit cost, utilization, mix; and enrich claims with EHR, eligibility, provider, and risk adjustment data to explain population-level trends and financial performance. •Interface directly with medical economics and finance leadership to identify and complete high-impact analyses, including pro forma and ROI for medical cost initiatives. •Partner across Clinical, Operations, and Finance to translate business questions into analyses, ensure results flow accurately into management reporting, and build repeatable analytic processes that scale across programs. Qualifications: •You build and you interrogate – you can stand up a clean dataset and tell when the output doesn't pass the smell test or is logically inconsistent. •You exercise critical thinking and understand the conceptual framework and database relationships that underly healthcare data. •You are comfortable with ambiguous problems and immature data and take pride in acknowledging what's unknown while taking steps to fill the gaps. •You form a point of view; you don't just produce the number, you explain what's driving it and why it matters. •You document as you build, so your definitions are transparent and others can rely on them. •You're a self-starter with an ownership mindset, thrive in a fast-paced environment, and care about transforming rural healthcare. •Bachelor's in Economics, Finance, Statistics, Mathematics, Health Informatics, Actuarial Science, or a related quantitative field. •High proficiency in SQL, Power BI, and Excel. •Applied hands-on capability in healthcare claims data, and combining data sources (claims, eligibility, EHR, risk adjustment). •Operational familiarity with healthcare financial and utilization concepts (e.g., PMPM, MLR, utilization per 1,000, trend, risk adjustment) Compensation: •$110,000 - $120,000 / year •Competitive benefits and rewards package Interested candidates, please apply directly through the job posting on company's career page or try via AI auto apply on this platform. Don't miss this opportunity to join a forward-thinking team!