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In the past several years, Amazon, CVS Health, and Walgreens each spent billions to own primary-care companies. CVS bought Oak Street Health. Here's how the bets that Amazon, CVS, and Walgreens made are playing out. CVS is building more Oak Street clinics despite lossesAn Oak Street Health location in Elgin, Illinois during its grand opening. CVS is hoping to help Oak Street clinics get profitable quicker by driving more patients their way.
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CVS Health is buying Oak Street Health for $10.6 billion, its biggest move into primary care yet. But the Oak Street deal will add full-service medical clinics to what CVS offers. Competition is heating up among major healthcare companies to be the first place you go when you need medical care. Oak Street Health CEO Mike Pykosz Oak Street HealthCVS will pay a premium for Oak Street compared to the clinic operator's IPO price. In Wednesday's all-cash deal, CVS valued Oak Street at $39 a share.
CVS Health just said it wants to buy primary-care company Oak Street Health for $10.6 billion. CVS Health is finally entering the arms race among health insurers and big retailers to employ doctors. Oak Street gets most of its revenue from relationships with CVS-owned Aetna rivals Humana, Centene, and UnitedHealthcare. And though Aetna is a big Medicare Advantage player, it also has millions of members who get insurance through their employers. Mike Pykosz, Oak Street Health CEO Oak Street HealthGuertin also noted that the improved health outcomes and better experience provided in Oak Street clinics would help Aetna hold onto its Medicare Advantage patients.
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