Amazon to pay $18 a share for the company whose parent — 1Life Healthcare — operates 182 medical offices in 25 markets in the USAmazon.com announced it would buy primary-care company One Medical for $18 a share, the latest move by the e-commerce giant to muscle into the healthcare market.One Medical, whose parent is called 1Life Healthcare, operates 182 medical offices in 25 markets in the US.
Amazon in recent years has launched an online drugstore, after its acquisition of mail-order pharmacy PillPack, and started a primary-care clinic for its employees and some other companies, among other health-focused initiatives. The One Medical deal would be Amazon’s third-biggest acquisition, trailing only its purchases of organic grocer Whole Foods Market and film studio Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.
But unlike other investor-backed clinic chains such as Oak Street Health , One Medical has historically focused on fee-for-service medical care, rather than new payment models that much of the industry is moving to. That changed last year with the company’s $1.4bn acquisition of Medicare-focused chain Iora Health, known for trying to reinvent senior care by improving quality while managing costs.