RTI International

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RTI International’s Health Practice Area has an opening for a Research Economist in the Division of Health Care Payment and Quality to serve as a task and project leader for implementation, analysis, evaluation, and synthesis of innovative health care delivery policies, programs, and models.

As a Research Economist, you will provide cutting-edge analyses that will influence healthcare policy and healthcare system innovation, particularly within the Medicare and Medicaid programs. Using large healthcare datasets, you will design, evaluate, and support policies related to healthcare insurance, payment, and delivery models; managed care; healthcare financing, costs, utilization, and quality; health insurance coverage and access; prescription drugs; and risk and case-mix adjustment through statistical analysis. You will lead analytic projects as an integral part of a team, apply an in-depth understanding of critical health policy issues and methods, contribute to and lead proposals to funding entities, and publish and present on findings for scientific audiences. (see: https://www.rti.org/practice-area/health).

Opportunities exist for new and experienced Ph.D.’s and Masters, and economists and policy analysts with relevant experience in academia, government, industry, or consulting.