Claims Data Analysis Intern

POSITION SUMMARY

Canary Medical is looking for a Claims Data Analysis Intern to Analyze Medicare Longitudinal Claims Data.

SCOPE AND RESPONSIBILITIES

• The longitudinal aspect of the data analysis is critical to success of the project. The successful candidate will be able to maximize cohort populations by normalizing annual data sets to specific index events, with the appropriate sample weighting and adjusting for time value of money to make data over a 10-year period comparable.
• Agree to a data use agreement.
• One ideal outcome would be a Kaplan-Meier type curve for the top 20 most common outcome buckets after a defined index event.
• Develop a solution that is easily applied to any index event for future analyses.
• Create a roadmap of analytic approaches to achieve project goals. This would include an analysis of technical requirements, data set mapping, critical data fields and expected outcomes.
• Analyze the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services public use data files for project feasibility.

Required Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Experience mapping files to create a database.
• Software requirements – SAS code or possibly Python
• Advanced level statistics

Preferred Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Experience with Kaplan-Meier curves or similar presentation.
• Understanding of U.S. healthcare coding and payment systems.
• Experience in orthopedics or healthcare

Education and Experience Requirements:

• At least 3 years of college experience working towards a technical degree such as engineering, computer science, data science or statistics.
• Completion of advanced statistical classes.
• Programming experience in SAS or Python or similar.

Department: Marketing

Reports to: Director of Marketing Intelligence

Work Location: Remote

Employment Type: Non-Exempt Internship

Position length: This is a summer internship to end around August/September 2023.

Salary: Non-exempt, $20.00 per hour.

COMPANY BACKGROUND:

Canary Medical

Canary Medical is a medical technology company focused on commercializing smart implants in the orthopedic, cardiovascular, and aesthetics markets. The company has established a considerable intellectual property portfolio surrounding its CHIRP (Canary Health Internal Reporting Processor) technology to facilitate development of active implanted devices capable of monitoring patient function utilizing MEMs sensor technology in concert with sophisticated power management algorithms and wireless data transmission.

The Canary ecosystem is comprised of an implantable smart device, a base station to transmit data from the device to a secure cloud structure, and a HIPAA-compliant cloud software system to store the information, convert the raw data to useful metrics, present said data on Patient and Clinician user interfaces, and mine data for clinical insights.

Canary both develops its own FDA approved products and partners with major and minor manufacturers to incorporate its smart CHIRP devices into their partner’s FDA approved devices, allowing transmission of information without clinical interpretation or medical intervention. This minimizes the regulatory burden on the medical device partner, as clinically interpreted data fall under the usual FDA regulatory pathways.

The company has a robust product pipeline in several therapeutic areas and is targeting a smart Total Knee Arthroplasty (TKA) implant as its first commercial US product within the next months, followed in quick succession by other total joint arthroplasty products (hip, shoulder) since approximately 90% of their core technology is shared across these areas. Canary’s cardiovascular efforts are targeting aneurysm, heart valves, and coronary stents monitoring. This aspect of the Canary product pipeline is earlier in development but is likewise expected to leverage core technologies from the orthopedic pipeline to reduce time to market, project costs, and regulatory risk.

Disclaimer:

Nothing in this job description restricts management’s right to assign or reassign duties and responsibilities to this job at any time. This description generally reflects management’s assignment of essential functions but is not intended to be a comprehensive list of the duties and responsibilities of the position, and it does not limit or restrict the duties and responsibilities that may be assigned from time to time. The duties, responsibilities and job description of this role are subject to change at any time without notice.

Canary Medical is proud to be an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer. We make employment decisions without regards to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, veteran status, disability status, pregnancy, or any other basis protected by federal, state, or local law. We also consider qualified applicants regardless or criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements.