State of Maryland

A Health Policy Analyst Associate is the entry level of work evaluating, analyzing, researching and developing health care services, policies and programs.  Employees in this class do not supervise other positions.

Employees in this classification receive close supervision from a designated program administrator.

Positions in this classification are evaluated by using the classification job evaluation methodology.  The use of this method involves comparing the assigned duties and responsibilities of a position to the job criteria found in the Nature of Work and Examples of Work sections of the class specification.

The Health Policy Analyst Associate, Health Policy Analyst I and Health Policy Analyst II are differentiated on the basis of degree of supervisory control exercised by the supervisor over these employees.  The Health Policy Analyst Associate learns to perform duties under close supervision.  The Health Policy Analyst I performs duties under close supervision at times and under general supervision at other times depending on the complexity of the specific duty being performed.  The Health Policy Analyst II performs the full range of duties and responsibilities under general supervision

Learns to analyze health care data to support policy, programs and services development;

Learns to prepare reports summarizing the results of health care research;

Learns to conduct research and analysis of factors affecting the use of specific health services;

Learns to determine the impact on health care access, quality and cost of alternative approaches for delivering and financing health services;

Learns to analyze and develop recommendations regarding activities governed by health policy and regulation;

Learns to draft testimony on health policy or health regulatory issues;

Receives training in planning, coordinating and staffing new health care programs and policies;

Performs other related duties.

Skill in the performance of qualitative or quantitative analysis;

Ability to comprehend technical documents;

Ability to learn to organize and present testimony;

Ability to use computerized applications and software;

Ability to learn principles of health care policy;

Ability to learn health administration and management practices;

Ability to learn to analyze and interpret health care reports;

Ability to learn to document and defend health care policy proposals;

Ability to learn methods involved in analyzing health care issues and developing appropriate recommendations;

Ability to learn to testify at public hearings;

Ability to communicate effectively;

Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with State, federal and private industry health care officials, employees and the general public.

Education:   A Bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university.

Experience: One year of experience performing qualitative or quantitative analysis.

Note: Candidates may substitute eighteen credit hours towards a Master’s degree in Health Sciences, Health Care Administration, Public Policy or closely related field from an accredited college or university for the required experience.

Class specifications are broad descriptions covering groups of positions used by various State departments and agencies. Position descriptions maintained by the using department or agency specifically address the essential functions of each position.

This is a Skilled Service classification in the State Personnel Management System.  All positions in this classification are Skilled Service positions. Some positions in Skilled Service classifications may be designated Special Appointment in accordance with the State Personnel and Pensions Article, Section 6-405, Annotated Code of Maryland.

This classification is assigned to Bargaining Unit E- Health Care Professionals classes. As provided by State Personnel and Pensions Article, Section 3-102, special appointment, temporary, contractual, supervisory, managerial and confidential employees are excluded from collective bargaining. Additionally, certain executive branch agencies are exempt from collective bargaining and all positions in those agencies are excluded from collective bargaining.

This classification is one level in a Non-Competitive Promotion (NCP) series. NCP promotions are promotions by which employees may advance in grade and class level from trainee to full performance level in a classification series.  In order to be non-competitively promoted to the next level in a NCP series, an employee must: 1) perform the main purpose of the class, as defined by the Nature of Work section of the class specification; 2) receive the type of supervision defined in the class specification and 3) meet the minimum qualifications of the classification.