You may have questions like, “Am I eligible for a lung cancer screening”, although it may be a little confusing, we are here to help you navigate everything without the stress and headache of doing it alone.
The US Preventive Services Task Force recently updated the eligibility guidelines for lung cancer screening to the following:
Individuals between the ages of 50 and 80 years
Individuals who are currently smoking or have quit within the past 15 years. Screening should be discontinued once the individual has not smoked for 15 years.
History of at least 20 “pack years” of smoking. (A pack year equals the number of packs smoked per day times the number of years the patient smoked; two packs a day for 10 years equals 20 pack years.
However, Medicare and Medicaid coverage guidelines for lung cancer screening remain (as of 9 March 2021) as:
55-77 year-olds
Smoked within the past 15 years
20 pack-years
2023-01-04T19:07:15+00:00By Jonathan Govette|Comments Off on Who is eligible for lung cancer screening?
CEO/Co-Founder @ Oatmeal Health | AI Lung Cancer Screening | Almost Became a Doctor | Engineer | Follow to Share What I’ve Learned Along the Way
I help patients get the care they need earlier, preventing late-stage cancer.
That's been the throughline across three companies and almost 20 years in healthcare. At ReferralMD, we fixed broken referral networks so patients didn't fall through the cracks. At Oatmeal Health, it's lung cancer: building the diagnostic and screening infrastructure so the 85% of cases caught too late get caught early instead.
Today as CEO of Oatmeal Health, I lead a team embedding AI into radiology workflows to turn routine lung CT scans into reimbursable cancer risk assessments. We partner with FQHCs to reach underserved communities, and with health systems and payers to make early detection economically sustainable. Think HeartFlow or Cleerly, but for lungs.
Between companies, I advised at Techstars and Plug and Play, mentoring founders building in digital health. That experience shaped how I think about what separates companies that ship from companies that stall: distribution, reimbursement, and clinical trust, not just technology.
I'm a CancerX alumnus, a 3x healthcare founder, and someone who believes the biggest problems in cancer aren't scientific. They're operational.
We're hiring mission-driven builders at Oatmeal Health. If you want to work on something that matters, reach out.
When I'm not working, I'm traveling, mentoring, and keeping up with one very energetic husky. 🐾
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Millions of patients get less care because of who they are, where they live, or how they look. I'm fighting to change that. CEO @OatmealHealth, a startup built for the underserved. The Oatmeal Bite: intel for clinicians, investors, and advocates.
Jonathan Govette
CEO of Oatmeal Health
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