Healthcare Analyst
What Does a Professional in this Career Do?
A Healthcare Analyst is responsible for compiling important medical data through the use of computer-based applications, within a health care organization or hospital. Responsible for gathering, compiling, modeling, validating, and analyzing data needed by the organization.
Job Outlook
There were 371 Healthcare Analyst job postings in North Carolina in the past year and 13510 in the United States.
In combination with other careers in the Clinical Analyst / Clinical Documentation and Improvement Specialist industry, which includes the Healthcare Analyst career, the following graph shows the number of people employed for each year since 2016:
Salary
Many new Healthcare Analyst jobs have salaries estimated to be in the following ranges, based on the requirements and responsibilities listed in job postings from the past year.
National
State
Percentiles represent the percentage that is lower than the value. For example, 25% of estimated salaries for Healthcare Analyst postings in the United States in the past year were lower than $81,595.
Education and Experience
Posted Healthcare Analyst jobs typically require the following level of education. The numbers below are based on job postings in the United States from the past year. Not all job postings list education requirements.
| Education Level | Percentage |
|---|---|
| Associate's Degree | 0% |
| Bachelor's Degree | 73.37% |
| Master's Degree | 25.88% |
| Doctoral Degree | 2.9% |
| Other | 8.18% |
Posted Healthcare Analyst jobs typically require the following number of years of experience. The numbers below are based on job postings in the United States from the past year. Not all job postings list experience requirements.
| Years of Experience | Percentage |
|---|---|
| 0 to 2 years | 32.24% |
| 3 to 5 years | 53.85% |
| 6 to 8 years | 10.66% |
| 9+ years | 3.25% |
Skills
Below are listings of the most common general and specialized skills Healthcare Analyst positions expect applicants to have as well as the most common skills that distinguish individuals from their peers. The percentage of job postings that specifically mention each skill is also listed.
Baseline Skills
A skill that is required across a broad range of occupations, including this one.
- Communication (49.44%)
- Microsoft Excel (41.99%)
- Problem Solving (35.03%)
- Research (33.29%)
- Operations (31.38%)
- Management (29.37%)
- Leadership (29.15%)
- Microsoft PowerPoint (25.91%)
- Detail Oriented (22.43%)
- Presentations (21.71%)
Defining Skills
A core skill for this occupation, it occurs frequently in job postings.
- Healthcare Analytics (10.4%)
- Data Analysis (39.78%)
- Tableau (Business Intelligence Software) (22.88%)
- Project Management (22.56%)
Necessary Skills
A skill that is requested frequently in this occupation but isn’t specific to it.
- Healthcare Quality (6.88%)
- Billing (18.05%)
- Workflow Management (20.18%)
- Health Informatics (3.9%)
- Business Analysis (7.89%)
- Continuous Improvement Process (4.1%)
- Agile Methodology (3.85%)
- Data Management (9.16%)
- Microsoft Access (11.51%)
- Business Intelligence (9.56%)
- Accounting (12.77%)
- Automation (5.7%)
- Business Requirements (12.32%)
- Quality Improvement (6.2%)
- Auditing (15.47%)
- Dashboard (14.38%)
- Business Process (10.26%)
- Computer Science (15.18%)
- Epidemiology (9.85%)
- Data Collection (6.25%)
- Data Quality (6.74%)
- CPT Coding (8%)
- Data Modeling (4.22%)
- R (Programming Language) (11.1%)
- Economics (19.71%)
- Claims Processing (6.21%)
- Data Visualization (12.08%)
- Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) (11.25%)
- Finance (23.56%)
- Public Health (10.07%)
- Health Administration (6.93%)
- Medicare (17.38%)
- Life Sciences (3.76%)
- Performance Improvement (7.45%)
- Python (Programming Language) (12.38%)
- HEDIS (Healthcare Effectiveness Data And Information Set) (7.55%)
- Population Health (7.12%)
- Financial Analysis (9.81%)
- Financial Statements (7.43%)
- Marketing (3.44%)
- SAS (Software) (19.15%)
- SQL (Programming Language) (41.78%)
- Healthcare Industry Knowledge (33.07%)
- Medicaid (17.57%)
- Microsoft Visio (5.84%)
- Pharmaceuticals (2.65%)
- Process Improvement (17.67%)
- Power BI (23.53%)
- Managed Care (14.7%)
- Statistics (18.28%)
- Revenue Cycle Management (11.57%)
- Data Science (8.63%)
Salary Boosting Skills
A professional who wishes to excel in this career path may consider developing the following highly valued skills. The percentage of job postings that specifically mention each skill is listed.
- Healthcare Analytics (35.63%)
- Tableau (Business Intelligence Software) (78.36%)
Alternative Job Titles
Sometimes employers post jobs with Healthcare Analyst skills but a different job title. Some common alternative job titles include:
- Healthcare Data Analyst
- Healthcare Business Analyst
- Analytics Analyst
- Performance Analyst
- Analytics Consultant
- Revenue Cycle Analyst
- Healthcare Analytics Consultant
- Quality Improvement Intern
- Process Expert
Similar Occupations
If you are interested in exploring occupations with similar skills, you may want to research the following job titles. Note that we only list occupations that have at least one corresponding NC State Online and Distance Education program.
- Data Analyst
- Business Analysis Manager
- Business Intelligence Analyst
- Decision Support Analyst
- Data Specialist
Common Employers
Here are the employers that have posted the most Healthcare Analyst jobs in the past year along with how many they have posted.
United States
- Molina Healthcare (873)
- Elevance Health (525)
- Alvarez & Marsal (497)
- Humana (487)
- Evolent (427)
- CVS Health (389)
- Evolent Health (388)
- Stiftelsen Norstella (346)
- Centene (228)
- Deloitte (226)
North Carolina
- Alvarez & Marsal (20)
- Elevance Health (12)
- Centene (11)
- Bank of America (9)
- Cigna (8)
- Evolent Health (8)
- Evolent (8)
- Novant Health (7)
- Blue Cross Nc (7)
- Humana (7)
NC State Programs Relevant to this Career
If you are interested in preparing for a career in this field, the following NC State Online and Distance Education programs offer a great place to start!
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