Kannact

Self-insured Employers?

We work with insurance providers to track and improve outcomes of patients with diabetes and other chronic diseases. We come from a variety of backgrounds, inside and outside of healthcare, but we're business innovators, first and foremost. Kannact has run pilots of various kinds with healthcare organizations across Oregon in the last 2 years. This is how we came to find that insurance payers, specifically self-insured employers, are more motivated to invest in systems of real change than anyone else.

Self-insured employers are the payer here, the payer that can't just increase costs to offset systemic problems. This is where the buck stops. Which means that this is where incentives align, and this is what has led to more customer growth this year than we have capacity to handle.

Passion, not Titles.

Kannact is small, about 30 employees right now. If you like being told exactly what you need to do, or if you enjoy having a narrowly defined role that allows you to ignore other aspects of the company, this would be a poor fit. Egos don't have a place here, everyone gets their hands dirty, but everyone also gets their voice heard. That being said, we're growing fast and currently looking for some people to take ownership in key areas, which requires the confidence to be an expert and the creativity to forge a brand-new path.

Not a wellness app.

Our product consists of two levels. The first is a diabetes management program that gets every patient a connected glucometer and home-delivered testing supplies, then pairs them with a personal health coach. This isn't a general-purpose wellness program, we're drawing on medical studies to focus solely on the most valuable activity we can get each of these patients to do: take their glucose readings regularly. With added information from improved reading frequency, we can offer our second level of service to those who most need it: coordinated care management. This is our intensive outpatient program, where we bring together local and remote specialists and carefully track results, working to see actual improvements in patient outcomes.

Play a role.

Healthcare is broken. Recent legal changes combined with business innovation, however, can help us realign the incentives of the system to create a model that actually works to improve health outcomes. If you are interested in being a voice in this space, please get in touch, we will put your passion to good use.