Fierce Healthcare January 14, 2021
Tina Reed

You won’t catch Oak Street Health putting its centers in a medical office building anytime soon.

That’s what CEO Mike Pykosz said as he described the growth model for the tech-enabled, value-based primary care group during the annual J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference on Monday.

“We break through that rumor that all healthcare is local and not a scalable business. We’ve been able to overcome that because of our systematic approach to these centers’ development,” Pykosz said. “It’s much more of a retail-like model of growth.”

Oak Street is a tech-enabled primary care chain that specifically targets Medicare-eligible patients, particularly those in underserved communities. The Chicago-based company went public in August, raising $328 million, has 79 locations, and began partnering last...

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