Risk Stratification as a Data Pipeline: Turning RAF Into a Worklist

Risk stratification sounds like a clinical strategy, but for the engineers who build it, it's a ranking pipeline. You take a population, score each member's expected need, sort, and hand a care team a prioritized list. This post is about how that pipeline is actually wired in a Medicare Advantage context.

The goal, stated as a function

stratify(population) -> ranked_list_of_members_by_expected_need

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