Oak Street Health uses a high-touch, primary care business model to take on full financial risk for almost all of its patients.
Oak Street offer comprehensive primary care for high-cost Medicare and Medicaid patients. They use an enhanced version of the “hotspotting” model pioneered in Camden, N.J.
Unlike the Camden model, these practices not only coordinate care, they help patients meet their basic needs for food, housing, clothing and social support.
Their business plan calls for generating profits by reducing preventable hospitalizations and improving patients’ overall health status.
Unless the government reverses course on social policy, their financial success will be very difficult to achieve.
