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CMS just assembled an 18-member dream team, but will they actually listen?
April 10 marked a pivotal moment: HHS and CMS launched the new Healthcare Advisory Committee.
18 experts. One mission: Transform Medicare, Medicaid, CHIP, and the Marketplace.
Their focus areas reveal everything about where healthcare is heading:
• Chronic disease prevention (finally moving upstream)
• Real-time data integration (goodbye, 90-day lag times)
• Risk adjustment for MA sustainability (the $500B question)
• Care for vulnerable populations (the moral imperative)
But here’s what caught my attention:
This committee launches alongside a 2.48% Medicare Advantage spending increase for 2027, new Medicaid funding restrictions for noncitizens starting October, and MedPAC recommending zero updates for dialysis and hospice.
The timing isn’t coincidental.
💡 We’re witnessing a fundamental shift in how federal healthcare policy gets made. No longer just bureaucrats and lobbyists in closed rooms, but actual experts advising on real-world implementation.
The question isn’t whether this committee will produce recommendations.
It’s whether CMS will have the courage to implement them when they challenge the status quo.
Remember: Every great healthcare transformation started with a small group of people who believed change was possible.
This could be that moment.
Or it could be another advisory committee whose reports gather dust.
Which do you think it will be?
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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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