Senior Manager, Healthcare Strategy & Finance - Healthcare Economist

Description & Requirements Join the Forvis Mazars Strategy & Finance Healthcare Consulting team and help healthcare leaders make confident decisions in a rapidly changing payment and regulatory environment. In this senior role, you will bring advanced healthcare economics, econometric modeling, and payment-policy expertise to help clients evaluate alternative payment models, episode-based reimbursement, value-based care opportunities, and strategic financial performance. You will translate complex data and analytical methods into clear, executive-ready insights that support growth, improve performance, and strengthen decision-making across the healthcare continuum What You Will Do Lead healthcare econometric analysis and financial modeling for alternative payment models (APMs), episode-based reimbursement, and policy-driven payment strategies in regulatory- and CMS-driven environments. Design APM, episode-level, utilization, financial, and performance models using CMS Virtual Research Data Center (VRDC), CMS Innovation Center (CMMI) / Innovator data, and relevant CMS public-use benchmarks and impact files. Apply defensible statistical and econometric methods, including causal inference, attribution, regression and multivariate modeling, counterfactual analysis, scenario modeling, and sensitivity analysis. Interpret claims-based, enrollment, utilization, quality, reconciliation, and performance outputs within CMS methodological and disclosure constraints. Identify and explain drivers of client performance, including utilization patterns, post-acute trends, site-of-care shifts, pricing, case mix, attribution, benchmarking, and risk-adjustment design. Develop policy-aware interpretations that support strategic, operational, and go-forward decisions for healthcare executives, regulators, and client stakeholders. Translate complex analytical results into clear, credible narratives, executive-ready recommendations, and high-impact client deliverables. Lead components of client engagements, including project planning, stakeholder communication, analytical approach development, model interpretation, and results delivery. Manage internal and external workstreams, proactively identify engagement risks, develop practical solutions, and help deliver an unmatched client experience. Mentor and develop junior team members, including analysts and consultants supporting healthcare economics, payment modeling, and financial analysis workstreams. Contribute to the growth of the practice by expanding subject matter expertise, developing reusable assets, and supporting market-facing healthcare strategy and finance offerings. Minimum Qualifications Bachelor's degree in economics, applied economics, statistics, quantitative policy analysis, finance, healthcare administration, business, or a related quantitative or healthcare discipline. 8+ years of relevant experience in healthcare consulting, healthcare economics, payment policy, value-based care, quantitative analytics, financial modeling, or related healthcare industry roles. Background in econometrics, applied economics, statistics, or quantitative policy analysis, with deep expertise in causal inference, attribution, and defensible analytical methodologies. Experience with regression and multivariate modeling, episode-based and population-based payment frameworks, counterfactual analysis, scenario modeling, and sensitivity analysis. Strong understanding of alternative payment models, including bundled and episode-based payment models, total cost of care and shared savings frameworks, attribution, benchmarking, and risk-adjustment design. Experience analyzing or overseeing claims-based, enrollment, utilization, and performance analyses using CMS data environments, payer data, provider data, or comparable healthcare datasets. Experience working with CMMI / Innovator data related to alternative payment model participation, performance, utilization, quality, and reconciliation outputs. Ability to align CMS data structures with econometric models and policy intent and to apply defensible proxy approaches when standardized or reconciled amounts are not published. Proven ability to translate complex analytical results into clear, credible narratives for executives, regulators, and clients. Experience managing engagement teams and mentoring junior team members. Proficient in Microsoft Office Suite, including intermediate to advanced Excel and PowerPoint skills. Preferred Qualifications Advanced degree such as MA, MS, PhD, MBA, MHA, MPH, or MPA in economics, statistics, analytics, public policy, healthcare administration, business, or a related field. Experience in healthcare strategy, value-based care, payment innovation, or healthcare policy consulting within a professional services firm. Experience developing models and advisory content for CMS payment models such as Comprehensive Care for Joint Replacement Extension (CJR-X), Transforming Episode Accountability Model (TEAM), Medicare Shared Savings Program (MSSP), Accountable Care Organization Realizing Equity, Access, and Community Health (ACO REACH), or other alternative payment models. Familiarity with CMS public-use benchmarks and impact files to support proxy modeling and comparative analysis. Demonstrated ability to build or scale a consulting capability, develop go-to-market assets, and collaborate across advisory, data, and analytics teams. 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