VP, Healthcare Economics

Strive Health

Strive Health

Denver, CO, USA
Posted on Saturday, December 16, 2023

What We Strive For

Strive Health is built for purpose — to transform a broken kidney care system. We are fundamentally changing the lives of kidney disease patients through early identification, engagement and comprehensive coordinated care. Strive’s model is driven by a high-touch care team that integrates with local providers and spans the entire care journey from chronic kidney disease through end-stage kidney disease, leveraging comparative and predictive data and analytics to identify at-risk patients. Strive Health’s interventions significantly reduce the rate of emergent dialysis crash, cut inpatient utilization and significantly improve patient outcomes and experience. Come join our journey as we create THE destination for top talent in the healthcare community and set a new standard for how kidney care should be done.

Why We’re Worth the Application

  • We Strive for excellence and were recognized as one of America’s Best Startup Employers for 2023 by Forbes, Circle of Excellence, American Society of Transplantation, 2023, Best Places to Work – Denver, Comparably.com, 2022, Best Places to Work – Denver, Built in Colorado, 2022
  • We derive innovation and ideas from through authentic diversity intentionally building a team that represents the populations we serve in partnership with our Employee Resource Groups:
    • Strive Forward - LGBTQ
    • Underrepresented Minorities
    • Women and Allies
  • We care and support our Strivers within and beyond work to feel fully charged and empowered through our generous wellbeing offerings including:
    • Flexible time off
    • Companywide wellbeing days
    • Volunteer time off
    • Leave packages including a sabbatical, parental leave and eight weeks paid for living donor
    • Professional development
    • A dedicated certified financial planner
    • Headspace, Carrot Fertility and Gympass for all Strivers
  • We like to have fun by celebrating our successes as a team through team building, company gatherings, trivia, wellbeing raffles, pajama days, a companywide book club and more.
  • We value tenacity to help us overcome obstacles with grit and determination to deliver compassionate kidney care.

VP, Healthcare Economics

The main function of this role is to lead the analysis, evaluation, and underwriting of new business to ensure financial viability and improve profitable growth for the organization. In this role, you will play a critical part in driving the strategic direction of the future of the organization. In addition to having an innate financial mindset, this person should also have strong technical skills and be able and willing to roll up their sleeves to support the team responsible for ingesting/QCing new client data, developing GTM analytics, and preparing/delivering external presentations.

Essential Functions

  • Develop pricing and underwriting strategies to attain and improve profitable and sustainable growth
  • Create customized pro formas and risk management solutions while meeting the expectations of our partners
  • Work with internal stakeholders to understand program performance, utilization patterns, and other relevant factors to support key underwriting decisions
  • Collaborate with Strategy & Development leaders to prepare clear and compelling presentations showing the value of our program
  • Conduct comprehensive analyses of healthcare contracts, policies, and reimbursement models to assess financial risks and opportunities
  • Monitor market trends, competitor practices, and emerging value-based care models, providing insights and recommendations to inform underwriting strategies
  • Work with internal and external stakeholders to transition partners from the business development stage through go-live ensuring successful onboarding experience and market readiness
  • Provide leadership, guidance, and mentorship to Healthcare Economics team, fostering a culture of learning and professional development

Minimum Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree in Math, Actuarial Science, Finance, Economics, Statistics, Business, or relevant field
  • 10+ years’ experience in healthcare data analysis in a consulting environment
  • 5+ years’ leading an analytics team
  • Business travel
  • Internet Connectivity - Min Speeds: 3.8Mbps/3.0Mbps (up/down): Latency <60 ms

Preferred Qualifications

  • Experience in managed healthcare analytics
  • Experience in Commercial, Medicaid and Medicare analysis preferred
  • Experience with CMS shared savings programs strongly preferred
  • Experience in working with multiple legal entities under different legal umbrella
  • Exceptional analytical and conceptual thinking skills
  • Advanced in Excel and financial modeling
  • Proven experience in creating robust reporting and actionable analytics
  • Strong adaptability and capacity to work in fast-paced environments
  • Management experience

Annual Salary Range: $169,400.00-$218,600.00

Strive Health offers competitive compensation and benefits, including Health insurance, Dental insurance, Vision insurance, 401k Retirement Plan with Employer Match, Life and Accidental Death & Dismemberment insurance, Disability insurance, Health Savings Account, Flexible Spending Account, paid company holidays, in addition to Vacation Time Off. An annual performance bonus, determined by company and individual performance, is available for many roles as aligned to Strive Health guidelines.

Strive Health is an equal opportunity employer and drug free workplace. At this time Strive Health is unable to provide work visa sponsorship. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Please apply even if you feel you do not meet all qualifications. If you require reasonable accommodation in completing this application, interviewing, completing any pre-employment testing, or otherwise participating in the employee selection process, please direct your inquiries to talentacquisition@strivehealth.com