Alex Atayev
Senior Consultant at Optum
- Role
- Senior Consultant at Optum
- Location
- Washington, DC, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Alex Atayev
Over 20 years in healthcare IT, policy analysis, program evaluation, data and…
Experience
Senior Consultant
Apr 2023 — Present · Montgomery County, MD, US
Serve as a lead in management of strategic consulting and analytics solutions, large scale PBM initiatives to improve services, quality of care, and contain costs,• Serve as a key expert on setting drug prices and MAC programs by applying different types of drug pricing,• Perform a broad range of quantitative analyses for healthcare consulting, quality metrics analysis, program evaluation, measuring operational changes, identify industry trends and opportunities,• Serve as a key resource on the most critical issues, solve complex problems, and initiate and foster unique and innovative ideas and solutions,• Apply appropriate analytic approaches and methodologies, data visualization, queries, and statistical software to build business intelligence, financial reporting, perform data analysis, interpretation, and presentation of results and sound business recommendations to internal and external clients,• Develop payment calculations, perform financial and trend analyses, calculate performance and quality metrics, and conduct fast-paced ad-hoc analysis to quickly address client needs,• Coordinate with different teams in improving data architecture, data engineering, and ensuring data accuracy,• Efficiently query Big Data with healthcare claims of various types and structure, provider data, member eligibility, and enrollment data,• Write detailed specifications and documentation of data processing and analytical steps,• Analyze quality, utilization, and costs, develop data analyses and reports by applying data science, reporting and data visualization tools in SQL, SAS, R, Python, Tableau, Excel, and Power BI,• Support the team of analysts with subject matter expertise in various domains including statistical methods and machine learning algorithms, evaluating program performance and quality of care metrics, healthcare policies and government regulations, pharmacy, hospital and medical services, behavioral economics, member experience and benefits structure.
Education
Azerbaijan Medical University
Doctor of Medicine (M.D.), Medicine
1982 — 1988
University of Southern Maine
Health Policy and Management
1999 — 2001
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Measurement, Design and Analysis Methods for Health Outcomes Research
2004 — 2004
Georgia Institute of Technology
MS in Analytics, Data Science
2020
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