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Today’s healthcare isn’t working for most Americans
Americans using Medicare and Medicaid are left behind when it comes to education and access to life’s most critical health options.
We want to change that with life-saving preventative screenings leveraging artificial intelligence before health worsens while delivering a better experience to families, employers, clinicians, and health plans.
- Join the cause: If you are a health plan, employer, union, or health system and want to help all Americans gain access and education to a life-saving screening, or join us with in-kind support, contact us to discover how a partnership could benefit our organizations.
- Contact Us: Please email Ty Vachon, the Chief Executive Officer and radiologist of Oatmeal Health at Ty@oatmealhealth.com for more information and to schedule a meeting.
Why Now? What is the Problem?
Guidelines changed in February 2022, increasing eligibility to 14.5M lung cancer patients from 6.4M to help identify and treat Medicare patients sooner
- 13.9M eligible Americans skip their Lung Cancer Screening each year
- As a result, 84% of lung cancer presents at a late and expensive stage
- Once found, 50% of lung cancer patients die unnecessarily within one year of being diagnosed
- Most radiology screenings are not AI-enabled, leaving radiologists to manually read scans and measure changes over which can cause errors and misdiagnosis
What is Oatmeal Health:
Oatmeal Health is a veteran-owned multi-specialty practice that offers preventative AI-enabled chronic disease screenings to underserved patients. Virtual radiology model.
- Provide white-glove service to ensure repeat appointments
- AI-powered radiologist tools/reports for image reading, analysis, and reimbursement
Benefits to Health Systems
- Increase scan volume and revenue – Oatmeal Health will refer patients, document findings, and help generate additional revenue for you with both the initial scan and rescans year after year
- Contracted Primary Care Services, Improve outcomes and revenue: We understand your staff only has so much time every day to help patients. We want to help your staff by taking lung cancer screenings off your plate and provide “white-glove service” to your patients that need regular scans while helping you generate additional revenue per patient.
- Reduce CT scanner downtime – Are you running your CT scanner below 100 percent capacity? Let Oatmeal Health fill your appointment slots at no cost to you
- Increase incremental procedure revenue – We will market your health system alongside ours to new patients that may not have been exposed to your organization increasing incremental procedure revenue for other service lines.
Facts / Statistics:
- Loss of Revenue: About three-fourths of short-term acute-care hospitals lost money treating Medicare patients in 2016
- Rising Costs to Treat Patients: According to a study published in the international journal Lung Cancer, the failure of initial treatment is associated with markedly increased costs. Patients needing additional rounds of treatment had total costs of $120,650, compared to $45,953 for those receiving initial treatment only.
- Medicare Spending: Over the year of diagnosis, mean per‐patient annual Medicare spending varied substantially by cancer type: $35,849 for breast cancer, $26,295 for prostate cancer, $55,597 for lung cancer, and $63,063 for colorectal cancer
- Annual Cancer Spending: Price tags of life-saving treatments are continuing to increase, with nearly $150 billion being spent nationally per year for cancer care, four times more than treatment for other common health conditions, according to a report from The Mesothelioma Center.
- Lung Cancer Treatment Annual Cost: Cancer treatment costs were reported highest among preventable cancers such as lung cancer, colorectal cancer, breast cancer, and mesothelioma. Specifically, the lifetime cost of lung cancer was an estimated $282,000 while mesothelioma was a reported $150,000.
- Cigarette Sales Increased for the first time in 20 years: The number of cigarettes that the largest cigarette companies in the United States sold to wholesalers and retailers nationwide increased from 202.9 billion in 2019 to 203.7 billion in 2020, according to the most recent Federal Trade Commission Cigarette Report. This represents the first time annual cigarette sales have increased in 20 years.
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Author:
Jonathan Govette is a seasoned healthcare and technology executive with more than two decades of experience building, scaling, and advising digital health companies. He is the Co-Founder and CEO of Oatmeal Health, an AI-driven Lung Cancer Screening and Diagnostics company focused on expanding access to early detection for underrepresented populations, particularly patients served by Federally Qualified Health Centers and value-based health plans.
With a background in engineering, product development, and strategic partnerships, Jonathan has founded and led multiple health technology ventures across clinical care delivery, regulated medical software, and AI-enabled diagnostics. His work sits at the intersection of medicine, technology, and health equity, with a consistent focus on translating complex clinical problems into scalable, real-world solutions.
Jonathan has spent much of his professional life dedicated to improving outcomes for marginalized and underserved communities. He has designed and implemented frameworks that align clinical quality, reimbursement, and technology to sustainably advance health equity at scale. This mission is deeply personal and informs his leadership philosophy and long-term vision for healthcare transformation.
In addition to his operating experience, Jonathan is an author and long-time writer in the healthcare domain, with over 20 years of published work covering digital health, medical innovation, and healthcare systems. He is a frequent mentor to early-stage founders and regularly advises startups on product strategy, partnerships, and go-to-market execution in regulated healthcare environments.
Before entering industry full-time, Jonathan nearly pursued a career in medicine with an early path toward cardiothoracic surgery, an experience that continues to shape his clinical perspective and respect for frontline care delivery.
CEO | Oatmeal Health | AI Lung Cancer Startup | Engineer | Writer | Almost Became a Doctor (Cardiac Thoracic Surgeon) | 3x Health Tech Founder | Startup Mentor | Follow to share what I’ve learned along the way.
