Bill Baar Email & Phone Number

Remote

• Currently supporting Veteran Health Administration’s (VHA) Electronic Health Record Modernization program's Patient Identity management efforts.
• Previously supported VHA's Tele-Pain Neuromodulation Program, built metrics for key drivers of Clinical Quality, Costs, and Patient Experience
• Projected utilization, unit costs, and supported staffing model for proposed hub-spoke delivery model
• Navigated VHA’s Corporate Data Warehouse; assisted junior analysts building queries, visualizations, and dashboards

Provided data analytical support for the review of demand, and supply at a large Veterans Affairs Medical Center including make/buy decisions for the Community Care Program.

Remote

Coded HEDIS measures

• Lead content expert on digital quality measures including HEDIS and CMS's eCQMs.
• Educated staff on quality measures, their stewards, purposes, and resources.
• Worked with sales team on product definition and customer presentations.

• Rebuilt a Team of 16 Data Scientists supporting the Defense Health Agency’s Analysis and Evaluation Division after the previous team unexpectedly left in mass
• Implemented a coding Quality Program
• Developed new Performance / Quality Measures with senior DHA leaders
• Started implementation of Agile Development methods
• Started team's training in R and Python as alternatives to SAS

Chicago

• Wrote Clinical Performance Measures using an XML Rules Engine, SAS, and SQL Server for Evolent’s Identifi platform.
• Achieved National Committee for Quality Assurance certifications for 2015 through 2020.
• Wrote Recommended Care rules to identify Care Gaps.
• Wrote Admission, Discharge, and Transfer event rules for Care Program management.
• Developed all products with teams using Agile methods and techniques

Hines, Illinois / Washington DC (remote)

• Principle analyst / SAS Programmer of a seven Hospital Healthcare System serving ~ 300k Veterans with a budget of $2.2 billion.
• Tracked using SAS over 100 clinical and financial performance metrics. Alerted leadership to unfavorable trends; such as hospital acquired infections, readmission, follow-up care in Mental Health clinics, and.
• Evaluated Physician Productivity using VA’s Decision Supporting System. Prepared analysis for Network’s Chief Medical Officer to spur productivity improvements.

• Health Care Financing Administration, Chicago: Budget Analyst / Medicaid Auditor (Wisconsin and Michigan) / Medicare Hospital Reimbursement Accountant
• Department of Defense Inspector General, Arlington Virginia: Lead Auditor Security Assistance / Foreign Military Sales Programs
• 200th Theater Army Material Management Center, Zweibrueken, Germany: Systems Accountant
• Social Security Administration, Chicago: Benefits Authorizer

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