Medicaid Data Programmer

Job Summary

A company is looking for a Medicaid Data Programmer to work with Medicaid administrative data for health services research and policy analysis.

Key Responsibilities

• Work with large-scale Medicaid administrative datasets, including eligibility, enrollment, claims, encounters, and provider files
• Extract, clean, recode, merge, and de-duplicate complex administrative data from multiple sources
• Develop research-ready datasets to support health policy analysis, program evaluation, and reporting

Required Qualifications

• Undergraduate degree in Statistics, Epidemiology, Economics, Health Informatics, Computer Science, or a related field
• At least 3 years of experience working directly with Medicaid administrative data, including claims and/or encounter data
• Strong hands-on experience using one or more programming or analytic languages (e.g., SQL, R, Python, STATA)
• Demonstrated experience producing analytic datasets, summary tables, and figures for research or policy projects
• Familiarity with Medicaid data structures and coding systems (e.g., ICD, CPT, HCPCS, NDC)