Full-Time

SQL Data Analyst

Healthcare

Posted on 7/21/2025

Quest Analytics

Quest Analytics

201-500 employees

Software for health network adequacy optimization

No salary listed

No H1B Sponsorship

Overland Park, KS, USA

Hybrid

Category
Data & Analytics (1)
Requirements
  • Degree in Data Analytics, Information Systems, Business, related degree, or equivalent experience.
  • 3+ years of experience defining, implementing, and evaluating process strategies and improvements.
  • 3+ years of experience working with healthcare data.
  • Advanced proficiency in SQL is required (writing complex queries joins and aggregations, etc.).
  • Expertise in Excel including advanced formulas, pivot tables, and data visualization techniques or similar comparison tools.
  • Experience with data validation and ETL processes.
  • Microsoft Azure experience / knowledge is a preferred.
  • Strong ability to independently investigate, analyze and solve complex data problems.
  • Experience working with stakeholders to proactively extract needed parameters to develop meaningful data analysis.
  • Experience with business rule data validation and transformation.
  • Experience with ad hoc data analysis and supporting ongoing metrics reporting.
  • Ability to translate complex data analysis findings into actionable business insights.
  • Proven successful experience collaborating and interacting with professional engineering team(s), in an analyst role, to achieve objectives & results.
  • Able to create clear, concise, detail-oriented data analysis designs from specifications or verbal communications.
  • High attention to detail including effective client communications and proven ability to manage multiple, competing priorities simultaneously.
  • Ability to multitask and prioritize in a fast-paced, fluidic environment.
  • Excellent interpersonal skills, ability to collaborate and work successfully with teams across the organization.
Responsibilities
  • Independently research and analyze healthcare provider and outreach data discrepancies or issues as reported by internal teams, leveraging SQL queries, excel based comparisons and other various analysis tools.
  • Operationally respond to urgent and/or exploratory data requests (represented by Azure DevOps work items) from stakeholders and internal partners, providing timely and insightful analysis results within defined turnaround times and due dates.
  • Independently navigate internal database structures with little to no direction
  • Develop, maintain and enhance recurring reports to track requested data performance points and trends.
  • Apply critical thinking and structured analytical approaches to complex data challenges within multiple interdependent systems.
  • Translate intricate technical data findings into business friendly insights, ensuring clarity for non-technical audiences.
  • Write and optimize complex SQL queries to extract, validate and analyze data from multiple sources.
  • Build and maintain Excel based reports. Including pivot tables, charts and formulas to support business operations.
  • Work closely with internal teams, including various engineering scrum teams, stakeholders, and various internal partners to provide timely and accurate data insights.
  • Identify trends and patterns that indicate data integrity issues and proactively work to support improvements.
  • Utilizing internal tools, maintain clear documentation of investigations, queries and resolutions to support knowledge sharing and process optimization.
  • Be a creative thinker with a focus on continuous improvement.

Quest Analytics provides software solutions and consulting services focused on healthcare provider network adequacy and optimization. Its core offerings are decision applications that help clients model networks, evaluate changes (such as adding or removing providers), identify gaps, and visualize network adequacy. Clients access these tools via subscriptions and also receive strategy advice through consulting, with additional value from events like Quest Labs that teach tool usage and enable networking. The company stands out through its emphasis on regulatory compliance and network optimization for US health plans, providers, CMS, and state agencies, backed by a track record with major government and healthcare entities. The primary goal is to help customers meet regulatory requirements and improve provider networks to deliver better patient care.

Company Size

201-500

Company Stage

N/A

Total Funding

$530K

Headquarters

Appleton, Wisconsin

Founded

2003

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Simplify's Take

What believers are saying

  • Mike Cavan's April 2026 appointment as CCO drives revenue from 90% American network coverage.
  • Arcadia June 2025 integration enhances QES with physician-level claims and efficiency metrics.
  • Motive Practicing Wisely April 2024 partnership adds evidence-based physician quality measures.

What critics are saying

  • BetterDoctor APIs erode QES subscriptions by enabling direct real-time provider data integration.
  • Arcadia partnership commoditizes PCI, causing client churn to Arcadia's unified platform within 12 months.
  • Optum captures 50% of Quest's top health system clients using ex-SVP Seelam's analytics by 2028.

What makes Quest Analytics unique

  • Quest Analytics' QES platform processes 150 billion provider records monthly for 400+ clients.
  • Proprietary claims database covers 5 billion annual claims from Medicare, Medicaid, and commercial payers.
  • Trusted by CMS and 30+ state agencies for regulatory-compliant network adequacy analysis.

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Benefits

Competitive salary

Success-sharing bonus

Company matching 401K and HSA Contribution

FSA, HSA and commuter benefits

100% company-paid high-deductible health plan, dental and vision for employee

PPO Plan option offered

Wellness benefits

Casual and fun work environment

Free gourmet coffee, drinks and snacks

Social and community outreach programs

Flexible work arrangements and telecommuting

Professional development and training

Monthly culture-building activities

Company News

PR Newswire
Jun 16th, 2025
Quest Analytics Announces Strategic Integration Partnership With Arcadia

On showcase at AHIP 2025: The integrated solution delivers advanced provider performance intelligence within Quest Analytics' flagship network management technology platform.LAS VEGAS, June 16, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Quest Analytics®, the leader in provider network design and management solutions, announced today a strategic data integration partnership with Arcadia, a leading healthcare data platform and supplier of provider performance insights. This collaboration gives Quest Analytics clients enhanced physician-level intelligence within a single platform to build high-quality, competitive networks. Quest Enterprise Services® (QES®), Quest Analytics' data-driven SaaS platform, enables clients to combine proprietary and third-party data for smarter, clinically informed network decisions. Its Provider Claims Insights (PCI) solution delivers metrics on claims activity, procedures, conditions treated, efficiency, effectiveness, and payer mix — key data for evaluating provider quality and cost

PR Newswire
Apr 9th, 2024
Quest Analytics(R) Announces Strategic Integration Partnership With Motive Practicing Wisely

OVERLAND PARK, Kan., April 9, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Quest Analytics, LLC, the leader in provider network compliance and performance solutions, announced today a new integration partnership with Motive Practicing Wisely, the leading provider of evidence-based measures for the evaluation of physician performance, to provide Quest Analytics clients deeper physician-specific information available within a singular platform to build high-quality, high-performing provider networks. Motive Practicing Wisely Solutions logo. Quest Enterprise Services™ (QES™) is Quest Analytics dynamic, data-driven SaaS platform for provider network management, design and performance. Clients benefit from the ability to access Quest Analytics' proprietary data, as well as add third-party content, enabling them to make powerful, data-driven decisions. With Provider Claims Insights, a QES platform solution, clients leverage data on claims activity, top procedures and conditions treated, efficiency, effectiveness and payer mix, providing important metrics to evaluate provider activity, quality and cost. By integrating additional data insights, such as the Motive Practicing Wisely appropriateness measures into QES, organizations get a more holistic view of physician quality which in turn helps them build more efficient networks, emphasizing quality and care appropriateness

PR Newswire
Oct 17th, 2023
Quest Analytics™ Strengthens Leadership Team With Two Key Appointments

Scott Westover appointed Chief Network Solutions Officer, a newly created, expanded role, assuming responsibility for the Network Performance TeamSubhash Seelam joins as SVP, Applied Network Analytics from OptumOVERLAND PARK, Kan., Oct. 17, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Quest Analytics, the leader in provider network management solutions and services, today announced the appointment of Scott Westover as Chief Network Solutions Officer, Quest Analytics, continuing his leadership in the regulatory arena while adding oversight of the Network Performance team. In addition, the company announced that Subhash Seelam has joined as Senior Vice President, Applied Network Analytics, reporting to Scott and supporting the Network Performance team.Scott Westover previously served as Quest Analytics' SVP of Network and Regulatory Strategy, where he worked directly with state and federal regulators to navigate rapidly changing market and policy needs. Prior to joining Quest Analytics, Scott served as market president for AmeriHealth Caritas New Hampshire, a leading Medicaid Care Management Organization. His prior experience also includes working at Anthem, Inc. as a vice president of provider joint ventures and national accounts, senior roles within leading healthcare providers, and driving national health strategy for multiple Fortune 50 corporations.Subhash Seelam, a seasoned leader in healthcare analytics, brings a deep understanding of data applications, analytical experience, and the development of analytic intellectual property that will greatly enhance the Network Performance team

Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina
Sep 11th, 2023
Reminder for Providers to Attest Every 90 Days to Confirm Accuracy of Directory Information

As posted earlier on Provider News, Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina (Blue Cross NC ) has partnered with Quest Analytics through their BetterDoctor solution for Blue Cross NC facility providers and non-delegated individual practitioners to review and attest to the accuracy of their directory information.

PR Newswire
Jun 14th, 2023
Quest Analytics™ Launches Provider Claims Insights Integrated Into Quest Enterprise Services™ (Qes™)

New offering provides health plans with critical provider insights to improve network composition and performancePORTLAND, Ore., June 14, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Quest Analytics, the leader in provider network management solutions and services, today announced the launch of Provider Claims Insights. This new offering adds provider performance measures within the Quest Enterprise Services (QES) platform to help health plans improve provider selection and overall network performance. Provider Claims Insights gives network teams the tools and analytics to identify the right providers for inclusion so that the resulting networks better meet business requirements and member needs while also reducing administrative costs."Provider Claims Insights was built with our clients' direct input to improve their understanding of each provider's practice – their mix of business and relative cost and quality," Steve Levin, CEO, Quest Analytics. "This type of more detailed insight allows superior network composition improving member satisfaction while maintaining critical access and adequacy."QES Provider Claims Insights, based on a curated national claim dataset, helps clients:Avoid ghost providers and ensure true access for members.View a providers' clinical activity by line of business relative to other providers in their specialty/geography.Understand a providers payer mix by line of business, providing insight into a provider's relationship with all health plans in a given market.Gain insight into relative performance among physicians through cost and quality metrics.Make more informed gap-filling decisions by knowing each provider's top procedures and conditions.Reduce costs associated with contracting and managing non-productive providers.To see how Quest Enterprise Services and Provider Claims Insights can transform your provider network management strategy, visit the Quest Analytics booth #1717 at AHIP 2023 in Portland, Oregon. Additionally, Quest Analytics' Chairman, Roger Holstein, will lead a session on June 14, 2023, from 11 a.m. - 11:45 a.m

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