American Heart Association Health Tech Competition 2026

Food is medicine. We built the infrastructure to deliver it.

FareRx turns nutrition from a recommendation into a delivered, measurable healthcare intervention. Medically tailored groceries, registered dietitian care, patient engagement, virtual support, and outcomes measurement work as one food-first care model.

FareRx team in the Philadelphia Teaching Kitchen
120,000+
Grocery deliveries
99.69%
Delivery success
102
Matched outcome pairs
4.9 / 5
Member satisfaction
The problem

We keep telling patients to eat better. Then we send them home.

Cardiometabolic care often stops at advice. Daily life still determines whether that advice becomes behavior.

01Understand what to eat
02Afford it
03Shop for it
04Get it home
05Prepare it
06Sustain the behavior
The problem is not another recommendation. The problem is execution.
The FareRx model

Care that continues into the kitchen.

FareRx connects identification, engagement, food delivery, clinical care, monitoring, and measurement in one intervention.

01

Identify

Eligible populations through payer and provider workflows

02

Engage

Simple enrollment and ongoing communication

03

Deliver

Medically tailored groceries delivered to the home

04

Care

Dietitian-led nutrition care and virtual support

05

Monitor

Longitudinal engagement; remote monitoring expansion

06

Measure

Behavioral, biometric, and utilization outcomes

One connected healthcare intervention. Food + care + data + delivery.
A FareRx grocery bag handed to a patientA FareRx grocery boxFareRx team in the Teaching Kitchen
The patient experience

Healthcare that shows up at the front door.

Weekly groceries. Familiar ingredients. Recipes and nutrition education. Human delivery. Dietitian support. Teaching Kitchen sessions.

We remove friction instead of adding another thing for the patient to navigate.
Cardiometabolic alignment

Turn “eat better” into food patients can use this week.

Life's Essential 8 identifies eating better as a key measure for cardiovascular health. FareRx is designed around the same practical food pattern, then adds delivery, dietitian care, engagement, and measurement.

View Life's Essential 8 guidance
01
Fruits and vegetables
02
Whole grains
03
Healthy protein sources
04
Unsaturated fats
05
Minimally processed foods
06
Less sodium and added sugar
2025 real-world outcomes evaluation

Engagement that becomes measurable behavior change.

Pre/post results from 102 matched member pairs across four Medicare Advantage SSBCI cohorts. This was a real-world outcomes evaluation, not a randomized clinical trial.

79 members

Diabetes + depression · 4-week intervention

23 members

LIS-eligible + chronic illness · 12-week intervention

+0.31 / +0.35

Grocery-shopping confidence improvement

+0.44

Meal-planning confidence improvement in the 12-week cohort

89–92%

Maintained or improved medication / appointment adherence

3.7×

Greater medication-adherence improvement at 12 weeks vs. 4 weeks

4.90 / 5

Average delivery satisfaction

72–84%

Said FareRx made them more likely to stay with their plan

Next evidence layer: A1c + biometrics + RPM + claims + longitudinal outcomes

Read the outcomes
FareRx delivery operations
Commercial traction

Built in the real world. Not the lab.

120,000+

Grocery bags delivered

99.69%

Delivery success rate

≈$1.7M

2026 revenue run rate

4.9 / 5

Member satisfaction

Commercial health-plan deployment
Medicare Advantage populations
Credentialed provider + NPI
SOC 2 Type II operations

AARP AgeTech Collaborative portfolio company · Village Capital Future of Aging 2026 · Philadelphia Business Journal 40 Under 40, Mike Cangi, 2025

Business model + market

Sell to healthcare. Deliver to the patient.

FareRx sells health plan-sponsored nutrition interventions today, then expands the care relationship through reimbursable clinical services and longitudinal measurement.

Current model
$80

per member/week current grocery program pricing

Primary buyer: health plans / payers

Secondary buyer: providers / health systems

01

Food creates engagement

The intervention starts with something tangible and useful.

02

Clinical care creates continuity

Dietitian care and virtual support extend beyond episodic benefits.

03

Measurement creates evidence

Behavioral, biometric, and utilization data show what works.

04

Reimbursement creates durability

MNT, DSMT, CCM, and RPM create the next revenue layer.

Expansion path
Medicare Advantage
Traditional Medicare
Medicaid
Commercial / employer
Provider partnerships
Competitive landscape

Food, care, data, and delivery are still fragmented.

FareRx brings them together in one connected healthcare intervention.

Typical model
Meal delivery
Grocery benefits
Digital nutrition
FareRx
Food format
Prepared meals
Grocery allowance or card
Nutrition guidance
Delivered groceries
Clinical care
Program dependent
Benefit dependent
Digital coaching
Dietitian-led care
Delivery role
Core
Retail network
Not core
Core
Engagement model
Service based
Benefit based
App or virtual
Human + virtual
Data focus
Fulfillment
Benefit use
Digital engagement
Food + care + outcomes
Category patterns vary by provider. This comparison reflects typical models, not every company.
The market is fragmented across food, clinical care, engagement, data, and delivery. FareRx is building the infrastructure that connects those pieces.
Leadership

Built by operators. Grounded in clinical care.

Mike Cangi

Mike Cangi

Founder & CEO

Built FareRx from launch to commercial payer deployment. Hospitality operator. Philadelphia Business Journal 40 Under 40, 2025.

Kenneth Rice, MD

Kenneth Rice, MD

Medical Advisor

Clinical oversight and physician leadership for FareRx's cardiometabolic care model.

Kathryn Oakes, RDN, LDN

Kathryn Oakes, RDN, LDN

Head of Nutrition

Leads nutrition programming, clinical education, and member nutrition care.

The next phase

From food benefit to cardiometabolic care infrastructure.

Today
Health-plan Food Is Medicine programs
Home-delivered groceries
Patient engagement
2025 real-world outcomes
Next
MNT + DSMT
RPM + CCM
Teaching Kitchen
Biometric measurement
Claims integration
Then
Longitudinal cardiometabolic care at scale
Food + clinical care + monitoring + outcomes

Primarily bootstrapped

Approximately $60,000 in non-dilutive funding to date

Capital accelerates
  • Clinical infrastructure, staffing, and credentialing
  • Remote monitoring and data infrastructure
  • Payer and provider integrations
  • Outcomes research and clinical validation
  • Geographic expansion
Make nutrition as accessible, measurable, and operationally reliable as any other healthcare intervention.