The Population Health Analyst supports the organization’s regulatory reporting, population health and value-based care initiatives, and Accountable Care Organization (ACO) performance. The analyst plays a key role in data collection, validation, analysis, and reporting to ensure compliance and to drive improved clinical and financial outcomes. This role also serves as a liaison with external partners—including ACO entities, health plans, state agencies, and data vendors—to support relationship management, accurate data exchange, reporting alignment, and collaborative performance improvement. Internally, this position works closely with other members of the Quality/ Population Health team, and collaborates with departments across the organization. The successful candidate will be able to perform the following responsibilities:Regulatory Reporting. Prepare, validate, and submit regulatory and compliance reports and deliverables including UDS, state quality measures, HRSA submissions, and other mandatory datasets or deliverables. Ensure accuracy, completeness, and alignment with evolving regulatory requirements. Maintain audit trails, documentation, and measure logic references for reporting. Interface with External Partners. Serve as a primary point of contact with ACO networks, payers, and value-based care partners for program operations and data analytics. Coordinate data submissions, reconciliation, and validation with external entities. Participate in external collaborative meetings, workgroups, and performance reviews. Work with vendors on population health tools, risk models, and registry maintenance to ensure accurate data exchange and integration. ACO & Value-Based Care Support. Monitor ACO performance metrics such as quality scores, utilization trends, total cost of care, and risk adjustment factors. Support care management and clinical teams in closing care gaps and optimizing risk-based performance. Data Analysis & Visualization. Extract and analyze data from Epic, population health tools, and payer or ACO portals. Perform analyses such as trend monitoring and forecasting to support department and organizational strategic planning as assigned. Quality & Population Health Support. As assigned, contribute to QI projects aligned with regulatory and ACO objectives. Support workflow design for care management, preventive care outreach, and chronic disease initiatives. Translate data findings into actionable recommendations. Data Integrity & Compliance. Conduct data audits to ensure accuracy of quality and ACO performance measures. Maintain HIPAA compliance and data security standards. Other Duties:Please note, this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change at any time with or without notice.