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# Data Analyst

- **Company:** Zachary Piper
- **Location:** United States
- **Experience:** Experienced
- **Salary:** $90,000.0 - $110,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Business Analytics Applications, Health Informatics, Fraud Prevention and Detection, R (Programming Language), Python (Programming Language), SQL Databases, Pyspark, Information Technology, Data Pipelines
- **Published:** October 11, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.clearancejobs.com/jobs/9231605/data-analyst

## About the Role

* 2-5 years of experience in federal healthcare data analytics, healthcare fraud detection, payment integrity, Medicare, Medicaid, or VA healthcare data environments
 * Strong proficiency with SQL, Python, PySpark, R, healthcare data analytics platforms, data pipelines, transformations, and dashboard development
 * Experience working with healthcare claims data, CPT/HCPCS codes, ICD-10 coding, provider and beneficiary data, and handling sensitive PHI under HIPAA requirements
 * Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Data Science, Statistics, Health Informatics, or a related field
 * Ability to pass a Public Trust clearance (Tier 2 / Moderate Background Investigation) and obtain a VA PIV card

## Description

* Develop, test, document, and maintain fraud, waste, and abuse (FWA) business rules, algorithms, and provider risk-scoring methodologies
 * Analyze healthcare claims, enrollment, and exclusion data to identify anomalies, overpayments, fraud schemes, and prioritized investigative leads
 * Support Palantir platform configuration, analytics development, data pipelines, integrations, and weekly analytic runs for War Room operations
 * Build dashboards, visualizations, leadership reports, and fraud trend analyses to support governance and decision-making
 * Perform rule back-testing, quality assurance reviews, precision measurement, documentation, and knowledge transfer activities for VA personnel