Job: Senior Consultant, Medicaid and Health Policy Research, Falls Church, VA (DC Metro Area)

Jobing Description

A Senior Consultant in Lewin's States and Payers practice is a senior-level consultant with responsibility for contributing to project teams on a variety of engagements. The States and Payers group works with the federal and state governments, health plans, associations and foundations, and health systems to design, build, operate, and monitor innovative strategies to improve access, quality, and cost-effectiveness, primarily in the Medicaid and CHIP programs. Additionally, we conduct evidence-based research to guide future Medicaid and CHIP program development. We also help our clients develop options for expanding health care coverage, from incremental approaches through comprehensive health reform.


Senior Consultants actively participate in all aspects of client work including proposal development, project planning and execution, team management, client presentations, and issue resolution. Senior Consultants are responsible for managing multiple priorities and strict timelines and completing and delivering work products in agreed-upon timeframe within contracted budgets. They manage and develop client relationships, as evidenced by positive client feedback and client engagement with repeated business. Finally, Senior Consultants are responsible for managing a matrixed team and for direct supervision and professional development of junior consultants.

We are currently looking for a Senior Consultant to provide analytic and consulting support for CMS and state Medicaid programs on a variety of program integrity-related activities, including managing projects to identify and reduce sources of improper payments and contributing to efforts to improve Medicaid data collection to support program integrity work. We are looking for an experienced project manager with knowledge of state Medicaid programs and experience working with Medicaid data. Experience with MMIS systems, MSIS data, Medicaid financial reports, and Medicaid program integrity are highly desirable.


The Lewin Group is a premier national health care and human services consulting and policy analysis firm with 40 years of experience finding answers and solving problems for leading organizations in the public, non-profit, and private sectors. Lewin's strategic and analytical services aim to help clients:

• Improve policy and expand knowledge of health care and human service systems


• Enact, run, and evaluate programs to enhance delivery and financing of health care and family services


• Deal with shifts in health care practice, technology, and regulation


• Optimize performance, quality, coverage, and health outcomes


• Create strategies for institutions, communities, associations, foundations governments, and people to make health care and human services systems more effective

Skills / Requirements

Requirements:



- A graduate degree in Public Policy, Public Health, Public Administration, Business, Economics or related field from a competitive program
- A minimum of 5 years of experience in consulting in health care and/or health policy research/analysis
- A minimum of 3 years experience working with public programs such as Medicare and/or Medicaid.
- A minimum of 3 years experience organizing and supervising the work of others and/or being a lead on major projects.
- Experience at the Federal, state or service delivery level strongly desired.
- Strong oral and written communication skills.
- Proficiency in Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint
- Ability to juggle multiple tasks

The Lewin Group is a premier national health care and human services consulting firm. We have more than 40 years' experience finding answers and solving problems for leading organizations in the public, nonprofit, and private sectors The Lewin Group is committed to independence and integrity in our work. We combine professional expertise with extensive knowledge and a rigorous approach to analyzing and solving problems to deliver value to each of our clients and to the larger community as well. The Lewin Group employs more than 140 consultants drawn from industry, government, academia, and the health professions. Many are national authorities whose strategies for health and human services system improvements come from their personal experience with imperatives for change.



The Lewin Group is an OptumInsight company. We're editorially independent but through partnerships with Optum we can tap into a vast body of data and resources.

OptumInsight is one of the largest and fastest growing health information companies. We specialize in improving the performance of the health system by providing analytics, technology and consulting services that enable better decisions and results. We integrate workflow solutions that deliver data in real-time, and create actionable insights - processing health information that relates directly to and affects one in four patients in the U.S, one in every three Medicaid dollars and one in every five emergency room visits. And we do it all with every action focused on our shared values of Integrity, Compassion, Relationships, Innovation & Performance. OptumInsight is part of the family of companies that make UnitedHealth Group one of the leaders across most major segments of the US health care system.

What can YOU do with the right information? At OptumInsight, the possibilities and the impact are limitless. No matter what your role is at OptumInsight, you'll be empowered to ask more questions, develop better solutions and help make the health care system greater than ever. It's always fresh. It's always exciting. And it's never been more important.

Diversity creates a healthier atmosphere: equal opportunity employer M/F/D/V
UnitedHealth Group is a drug-free workplace. Candidates are required to pass a drug test before beginning employment. In addition, employees in certain positions are subject to random drug testing.





Keywords: Medicaid, CHIP, policy analysis, health research