Total Cost of Care Strategy Lead
Description
Who we are
Founded in 1999, Quantum Health is a privately-owned, independent healthcare navigation organization. As the company that invented healthcare navigation, Quantum Health continues to set the standard and, in 2025, acquired the leading healthcare technology company, Embold Health. This further strengthens the AI and provider search capabilities, guiding members to the right care. Together, the teams lead the industry in healthcare navigation, simplifying care journeys, improving outcomes, and controlling rising costs for organizations of all sizes. This role supports the Embold Health division.
We’re committed to building diverse and inclusive teams across our organization, so if you’re excited about this position, we encourage you to apply – even if your experience doesn’t match every requirement.
About the role
We are seeking a Total Cost of Care Strategy Lead to drive savings by optimizing the relationship between quality and total cost of care. This role will develop and apply models that evaluate cost drivers including site of service, unit price, and utilization. You will serve as a subject matter expert on healthcare cost dynamics, with the ability to clearly articulate tradeoffs across different approaches to cost measurement, provider selection, and savings strategies to a range of stakeholders.
This role sits at the intersection of healthcare economics and benefit design, and will directly influence how Embold drives measurable reductions in total cost of care.
Location: This position may work remotely anywhere in the United States of America.
What you’ll do (Essential Responsibilities)
Total Cost of Care Model
- Design and implement frameworks that evaluate provider performance across total cost of care, clinical quality, and downstream utilization.
- Quantify variation across providers to identify actionable savings opportunities driven by differences in:
- Appropriateness
- Effectiveness
- Site of service
- Unit price
- Utilization patters
- Referral behavior
- Develop methodologies to evaluate the downstream impact of provider selection on overall healthcare spend and member outcomes.
- Translate complex performance and cost dynamics into clear, defensible scoring outputs that are both analytically rigorous and practically actionable.
Benefit Design & Financial Modeling
- Apply the total cost of care provider scoring framework to develop benefit strategies (e.g., cost-sharing structures, deductible shifts).
- Evaluate financial impact of plan changes at population level and ensure that incentive structures are economically sustainable and aligned to expected savings.
Market Insights & Innovation
- Look at what our competitors are doing and identify gaps and opportunity areas (forward looking).
- Innovating to anticipate and meet needs of prospective clients/the market.
Collaboration
- Partner closely with Product, Solution Engineering, Actuarial, and Data teams to inform solution design.
- Collaborate with market-facing teams on GTM-initiatives to refine design to meet the needs of existing clients and to evaluate opportunities for prospective clients.
- All other duties as assigned.
What you’ll bring (Qualifications)
- 5–10+ years health economics, actuarial analysis, healthcare analytics, or total cost of care modeling.
- Experience working with: Healthcare claims data and cost and utilization modeling.
- Experience building value-based models that are: Deployed in production and used for decision-making.
- Experience in: Value-based care and actuarial modeling.
- A high degree of personal accountability and trustworthiness and a commitment to working within Quantum Health’s policies, values and ethics, and to protecting the sensitive data entrusted to us.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience in: Provider performance measurement and episode-based cost modeling
- Familiarity with: Machine Readable Files (MRF) and provider attribution and referral patterns
- Background in: Health economics or actuarial concepts; possibly a credentialed actuary
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What’s in it for you
- Compensation: Competitive base and incentive compensation
- Coverage: Health, vision and dental featuring our best-in-class healthcare navigation services, along with life insurance, legal and identity protection, adoption assistance, EAP, Teladoc services and more.
- Retirement: 401(k) plan with up to 4% employer match and full vesting on day one.
- Balance: Paid Time Off (PTO), 7 paid holidays, parental leave, volunteer days, paid sabbaticals, and more.
- Development: Tuition reimbursement up to $5,250 annually, certification/continuing education reimbursement, discounted higher education partnerships, paid trainings and leadership development.
- Culture: Recognition as a Best Place to Work for 15+ years, dedication to diversity, philanthropy and sustainability, and people-first values that drive every decision.
- Environment: A modern workplace with a casual dress code, open floor plans, full-service dining, free snacks and drinks, complimentary 24/7 fitness center with group classes, outdoor walking paths, game room, notary and dry-cleaning services and more!
What you should know
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