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Malden, Massachusetts, United States

Malden, Ma

Works on the Medical Economics team supporting Population Health and Accountable Care initiatives throughout Cambridge Health Alliance. We combine electronic health records and claims data to create a complete picture of the care our patients receive. Supports internal and external initiatives, working collaboratively with IT and other stakeholders, including finance, medical management, physician and hospital organization, and care management teams.

Cambridge, Ma

- Managed a team delivering custom program integrity reporting and analysis for clients.- Created a provider screening solution that incorporated public data alongside claims analysis to identify high-risk providers and help clients comply with ACA regulations.

Cambridge, Ma

(Formerly Thomson Reuters Healthcare)- Oversaw the efforts to streamline the update process for Medicare data, cutting the update time eight-fold.- Worked in a firefighting capacity, providing analytic and technical expertise, troubleshooting and quality control across a variety of projects.

Created a standard package of analytic reporting to demonstrate to employers the effectiveness of our disease and care management programs.

Cambridge, Ma

(Formerly Thomson Medstat)- Created a provider matching process, to allow CMS program integrity contractors to link Medicare and Medicaid data sets ahead of full NPI implementation.- Worked on a variety of quality initiatives, including a federal pay-for-performance pilot, a state provider report card system, and a state ER waiting room intervention program.

Ann Arbor, Mi

(Formerly The Medstat Group)- Wrote an enhanced scripting capability for our proprietary database software using C#, allowing for improved automation of complex fraud & abuse reporting and data management routines. This was later integrated into the product.- Created and implemented an automated process to import, adjust and test state Medicaid data.

Ann Arbor, Mi

(Formerly The Medstat Group)- Started as a temp working on formatting quality control reports in Excel. Taught myself VBA and automated the task in two weeks.- Worked as a Visual Basic automation consultant across various teams and projects.- Became an expert in Medicare claims data processing and analysis.- Learned techniques for working efficiently with extremely large data sets.

Master Of Public Health (M.P.H.), Health Policy

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), Liberal Arts

A seminar-based curriculum built around the great books, with an emphasis on philosophy, mathematics, and the history of science.