Remote Healthcare Fraud Data Analyst - VA Contract — Columbus
Traveler-Friendly Insight
This role is listed as "Remote with On-Site Requirements," which is an important distinction for digital nomads. The VA engagement likely involves periodic visits to government facilities — potentially in the Washington, D.C. area or other VA/VHA offices — making this unsuitable for continuous international travel.
Key constraints for location-independent workers:
- Requires a U.S. work authorization and ability to pass a Tier 2 / Moderate Background Investigation (MBI) — ruling out non-U.S. citizens entirely.
- A VA PIV card must be obtained, which requires in-person identity proofing at a VA facility.
- Weekly analytic runs and War Room decision packages suggest recurring schedule obligations, likely within U.S. Eastern or Central business hours.
- Handling PHI and classified government data almost certainly requires working on approved, secure networks — not public Wi-Fi in a café in Lisbon or Bangkok.
For U.S.-based remote workers, this role does offer the flexibility of working from home most of the time. However, the government consulting context makes true location independence difficult. If you're a U.S. citizen based domestically, this could work well from any U.S. city with reliable internet and occasional travel capacity. International digital nomads should look elsewhere — this role requires U.S. residency, government security clearance processes, and periodic on-site presence.
Company Summary
Arlo Solutions (Arlo) is an information technology consulting services company that specializes in delivering technology solutions. Our reputation reflects the high quality of the talented Arlo Solutions team and the consultants working in partnership with our customers. Our mission is to understand and meet the needs of both our customers and consultants by delivering quality, value-added solutions. Our solutions are designed and managed to not only reduce costs, but to improve business processes, accelerate response time, improve services to end-users, and give our customers a competitive edge, now and into the future.
Position Description
Arlo Solutions is supporting the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Veterans Health Administration (VHA) Office of Integrity and Compliance (OIC) in standing up and running the VHA Fraud Rapid Response Center ("VA War Room"). The War Room protects Veterans and taxpayer dollars through data analytics, fraud risk assessment and fast administrative action, in line with Executive Orders 14395 and 14243.
The Data Analyst (Healthcare Fraud) is Essential Personnel on the fraud, waste and abuse (FWA) analytics team. Working under the Analytics and Technology Program Director and the Senior Data Analyst, this person uses VA's Palantir analytics and workflow platform to analyze VHA claims, enrollment and exclusion data. The analyst builds and tests business rules that detect potential fraud and overpayments, and surfaces anomalies and prioritized leads for OIC review. This includes supporting the Provider 360 view of community care providers, anomaly detection and network analysis to find coordinated billing schemes. The role is advisory and analytical — all final decisions stay with Government personnel.
Location: Remote with On-Site Requirements
Clearance: Public Trust
Responsibilities and Success Factors
- FWA Rule & Algorithm Development:
- Write, test and document business rules and algorithm logic mapped to FWA schemes.
- Support provider risk-scoring and case-prioritization criteria.
- Platform Development:
- Support configuration, code development and deployment on VA's Palantir platform, including data pipelines and system integration.
- Provider 360 & Anomaly Detection:
- Help combine claims, enrollment and exclusion data into a single Provider 360 view.
- Support anomaly detection and network analysis.
- Weekly Analytic Runs:
- Run the weekly analytics that feed War Room decision packages and the recurring prioritized lead lists.
- Data Extraction & Analysis:
- Extract, clean and analyze federal healthcare data for FWA identification.
- Support claim review workpapers.
- Quality Assurance & Back-Testing:
- Back-test rules, track rule precision and support QA and corrective action plans.
- The QASP targets at least 65% positive predictive value in month one and 70% by Day 60.
- Benchmarking:
- Support federal benchmarking and alignment of VHA data analysis with CMS data and methods.
- Dashboards & Reporting:
- Build dashboards, visualizations and data for quarterly fraud trend and improper payment reduction reports, risk governance reporting and leadership briefings.
- Documentation & Knowledge Transfer:
- Document rule specifications, acceptance criteria and analytic methods. Train VA staff to run War Room analytics independently.
Minimum Qualifications
- Must be legally eligible to work in the United States
- Able to pass a Tier 2 / Moderate Background Investigation (MBI) and obtain a VA PIV card
- Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Computer Science or a related field (such as data science, statistics or health informatics)
- 2–5 years of federal healthcare data analytics experience, such as with Medicare, Medicaid or VHA data; experience writing healthcare data analytics business rules
- Strong coding skills in SQL and Python (or PySpark/R)
- Proficiency with analytics platforms, including data pipelines, transformations and dashboards
- Working knowledge of healthcare claims data, such as claim types, CPT/HCPCS and ICD-10 codes, NPIs, and provider and beneficiary data
- Able to handle PHI and sensitive information under HIPAA and VA privacy requirements, and complete required VA TMS trainings
Desired Qualifications
- Hands-on experience with Palantir Foundry or Gotham
- Healthcare FWA or payment integrity analytics experience, such as detecting upcoding, unbundling, duplicate billing, impossible days or excluded providers
- Experience with VA Community Care data, the CMS Integrated Data Repository (IDR), or the OIG LEIE and SAM exclusion lists
- Anomaly detection, machine learning or network/link analysis experience
- Rule back-testing and precision measurement experience (PPV, false-positive analysis)
- Experience with Power BI, Tableau or similar visualization tools
- Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE) or a data/analytics certification
AAP Statement
We are proud to be an Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity Employer and as such, we evaluate qualified candidates in full consideration without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, national origin, age, disability status, protected veteran status, and any other protected status.
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