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Challenge

Public Sector Healthcare Out-of-Pocket Cost Optimizer with Google ADK and Together AI

Rising healthcare costs strain public sector budgets and employee benefits. You will build a Python agent using Google ADK and Together AI inference to process claims datasets, optimize benefit plan coverage rules, and reduce out-of-pocket expenditure predictions by at least 15% across employee cohorts.

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Challenge brief

What you are building

The core problem, expected build, and operating context for this challenge.

Construct a Google Agent Development Kit pipeline with Together AI inference to optimize municipal health insurance claim structures.

Delivery guide

How work is evaluated

Evaluation

Evaluates cost-saving recommendation accuracy and model execution efficiency on municipal claims data.

Datasets

Challenge datasets

Public datasets, plus the private datasets you have access to.

Evaluation rubric

How submissions are scored

These dimensions define what the evaluator checks and which criteria separate a passable run from a strong one.

Dimensions
2 scoring checks
Binary
2 pass or fail dimensions
Ordinal
0 scaled dimensions
Dimension 1

positive_savings_check

Ensure projected savings exceed 15% minimum threshold

Binary check

This dimension contributes its full weight only when the submission satisfies the requirement. Partial credit is not awarded.

Dimension 2

savings_percentage

Percentage reduction in out-of-pocket costs • target: 18 • range: 0-100

Binary check

This dimension contributes its full weight only when the submission satisfies the requirement. Partial credit is not awarded.

Learning goals

What you should walk away with

  • Implement multi-agent workflows using Google ADK (Agent Development Kit)

  • Connect Together AI model endpoints for high-throughput claim optimization

  • Analyze out-of-pocket cost distribution across diverse public employee cohorts

Resources and assets

Reference links and supporting material

Dataset notes

Municipal employee healthcare claims dataset comprising 10,000 anonymized annual claim records.

Challenge setup

Evaluates cost-saving recommendation accuracy and model execution efficiency on municipal claims data.

Challenge input

JSON array of annual claim records

Google ADK

Mandatory Google agent development SDK.

Together AI

Provides fast open-source model execution.

Evaluated output

JSON object with recommended copay limits and predicted savings float

Evaluation checks
  • Ensure projected savings exceed 15% minimum threshold
  • Percentage reduction in out-of-pocket costs • target: 18 • range: 0-100
Configured evaluation evidence
  • Benchmark: HealthEcon-Bench
  • Savings Percentage target: 18
  • 1 public reference case
Configured runtime
  • Python execution harness
  • Python sandbox (unavailable on Versalist)

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Configured tools

Action Space
  • Google · Required
  • Google ADK · Optional
Policy Serving
  • Together AI · Optional
Training Infra
  • Together AI · Optional

Evaluation contract

  • positive_savings_check · Weight 1
  • savings_percentage · Weight 1

Metrics

  • savings_percentage · Target 18

Benchmarks

  • HealthEcon-Bench
  • general

Reference cases

  • 1 public reference case

Workflow tasks

  1. Task 1

    Input: JSON array of annual claim records

    Output: JSON object with recommended copay limits and predicted savings float

    Execution harness: Python

Evaluation tools

  • Google ADK · Agent Framework
  • Together AI · Inference Engine

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