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Oak Street Health

The Chicago company that built a national chain of primary-care centres for low-income and dual-eligible Medicare seniors, paid almost entirely by full-risk capitation from Medicare Advantage plans. It was the clearest public-market test of the "de novo senior primary care" model: a 2020 IPO, a ~$10.6bn sale to CVS Health in 2023 at the top of the value-based-care cycle, a $60m kickback settlement over its agent-referral marketing, and a ~$5.7bn goodwill impairment (shared with Signify Health) and centre closures inside CVS by 2025.

At a glance

Founded
2012, Chicago, Illinois; first centre opened in 2013 in Chicago's Edgewater neighbourhood (reported)
Founders
Mike Pykosz (CEO; formerly a principal at The Boston Consulting Group, Harvard Law), Dr Griffin Myers (Chief Medical Officer; emergency-medicine physician, Chicago Booth MBA) and Geoff Price (COO; formerly at Bain & Company and Nautic Partners) (backgrounds from third-party profiles; verify)
Headquarters
Chicago, Illinois
Ownership / structure
Venture- and growth-equity-backed private company (2012–2020); public company, NYSE: OSH (IPO August 2020); wholly owned subsidiary of CVS Health since May 2, 2023, inside CVS's Health Care Delivery unit
Leadership (2026)
Mike Pykosz left CVS at the end of 2024 (announced November 2024); Dr Sreekanth Chaguturu, CVS's chief medical officer, became President of Health Care Delivery, overseeing Oak Street (reported; verify current Oak Street leadership)
Segment and buyer
Provider: value-based senior primary care. Paid by Medicare Advantage plans under capitation (percentage-of-premium) contracts, and by traditional Medicare through CMS's Direct Contracting/ACO REACH model
Payer and patient
Medicare Advantage insurers (Humana historically the largest, ~45% of capitated revenue in 2020, derived from filings), traditional Medicare (ACO REACH), small fee-for-service book; patients are older adults, many low-income or dually eligible for Medicaid
Scale
169 centres in 21 states and ~159,000 at-risk patients (~224,000 total) at end-2022; ~246 centres before the 16 closures announced in October 2025 and ~230 in 27 states after them (company statement via Supermarket News)
Capital / market cap
Private growth capital from investors including Newlight Partners, General Atlantic and Humana (verify round sizes); IPO at $21/share raised ~$328m (August 2020); $920m 0% convertible notes (March 2021); market value peaked around ~$15bn in 2021 (verify); CVS paid $39/share, ~$10.6bn including debt
Revenue
2020: $882.8m; 2021: $1,432.6m; 2022: $2.16bn (net loss ~$510m); no separate disclosure inside CVS

8 strategic moves analysed

Each one gets a full strategy file in the companion: context, the decision, the financing, what happened, and the lesson.

  1. 2012

    Founding Full Risk Senior Primary Care

    Founding / launch of business model

  2. 2015

    General Atlantic Growth Equity

    Funding round (growth equity) and multi-state expansion

  3. 2020

    NYSE IPO

    IPO

  4. 2021

    Build Out and Convertible Notes

    Expansion / financing

  5. 2021

    Direct Contracting ACO REACH

    Partnership (CMS Innovation Center payment model)

  6. 2023

    CVS Acquisition

    Acquisition (Oak Street as target)

  7. 2024

    False Claims Act Settlement

    Regulatory settlement

  8. 2025

    Impairment and Closures

    Restructuring (impairment, centre closures, layoffs, slower growth)