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About One Medical
One Medical is committed to providing the best primary care through exceptional quality, a world-class experience, and second-to-none technology. Our highly-rated doctors take most insurance plans and are accepting new patients.
One Medical (onemedical.com) has 340 customer reviews on Folks Told, with an average rating of 1.3 out of 5.
This place is a joke. They're web site specifically states they treat sinus infections , however , after answering all the questions including the fact that I have no health insurance and waiting for over an hour. I was answered back with the reply. I'm sorry, we're not able to help you. We've determined you have a sinus infection and we refuse to give you the amoxicillin you are simply asking for to treat it because it could give you diarrhea. What the Frick? This was a complete waste of time. Thank God in heaven it was Free this first time as I was using It since I'm a prime member. And here I was thinking, nice. Prime has a medical thing, but no, not nice. Do not use this place. It is simply a waste of time to tell a 58-year-old woman who's been prescribed amoxicillin for many years to help with sinus infections that They're refusing to give it to her because she might get diarrhea , and she needs to go see a doctor even though she has no health insurance. They made me feel like I was some druggie asking for pain pills or something.The very worst experience i've had honestly. Use DoconCall they are awesome . They've been helping me for years treating me with compassion in knowing i jeed help but have no insurace to be seen.
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pamry
Worst Customer Service and No Concern for Patient Health
Was a member for many years. When I moved out of state and needed a new doctor they refused to provide continuity of care for my medications (while promising they would) until I could get in to see a new doctor, which as a new patient takes a long time to get scheduled in my area. It let me in a precarious health emergency.
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jOHN L.
I wish I had read these reviews before…
I wish I had read these reviews before I rejoined OneMedical! I loved them 5 years ago very convienent and very god staff. Boy have things changed. I needed a refill of maintenance medication I have taken for like 10 years and when Amazon called them for a refill they only gave a 30 day supply and said I needed to make an appointment. I do not need an appointment I just need my medication. I am not going to renew with One Medical and I am even considering looking for another provider before then. My first video visit with One Medical was over $700 and was with a nurse! They just want to add stuff so they can bill your insurance.
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Charles W.
Don’t be fooled
Don’t be fooled! This is Amazon with all the corporate greed and lies. A fifteen-minute appt. I was told would only cost a small co-pay. Amazon/One Medical filed it so that Medicare would not pay and I had to shell out nearly 200 bucks to their direct profits. Amazon shareholder hunger should not bilk senior citizens who are forced into medical treatment. Find a genuine medical CARE alternative.
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Jamie U.
Refill scam…
So I used to get my cream… I had 2 refills. And when it was time to refill, my 2 refills were gone lol!? I just did a pay as you go, I thought I was crazy. Everything was gone from Amazon Pharmacy. But in general, you pay for a visit… they give you the thing, and 2 refills So I let it go, just paid for another Dr visit to get. And I got, with 2 refills. It was delivered, and then a few days later I get an email that there’s a world wide shortage of estradiol cream lol. So they cannot refill and I need to contact for a replacement. Two things… 1. You can’t just contact them after 2 days. You need to book another appointment. And TWO, there is not a worldwide, not even a U.S., shortage of the cream lol. It’s a scam… they get you to get one prescription, and you will never get your refills.
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Michael L.
Amazon One (Out of Five Stars) Medical Was the Worst Online Customer Experience I Have Ever Had
Amazon One Medical yielded my first negative experience with any Amazon product in my life thus far. I strongly recommend that Amazon management spin this one off because it is a potential brand destroyer.
The company is one of several innovators that basically draws a significant stream of income through deceiving its customers with limited attention by appearing to offer huge discounts on a particular service, but actually selling a similar sounding but quite different service, c.f.
Homeaglow. In this case, One Medical looks sells a "membership" that gives you "access" to telemedicine but not "insurance" itself so be aware.
I signed up for it because it was advertised as a free two week membership offering access to telehealth services, which sounded close enough to insurance. I was hoping to get a cheap referral for a difficult to obtain through my primary health insurance provider. I was ultimately billed $412 for a 12 minute call with a nurse practitioner* who could make no prescriptions, but only make outpatient referrals - none of which were covered by primary health insurance provider. The customer service phone line was actually deactivated when I called it. Via calling Amazon's overarching health business helpline, I was able to get in touch a generally unsympathetic representative from Amazon One Medical. Essentially, you are upcharged if you report that you have insurance (??) and, if you call to complain, Amazon One Medical offers to charge you only the rate you would have if you were uninsured.
As a health-conscious customer, I would stay as far away from this product as possible if you are in need of discount medical services. If you must buy it, read all the fine print, and assume that you are dealing with an extremely cynical operator on the other side. I am not the type of person to negatively review products and try to be forgiving in general, but my overall customer experience here was so unpleasant that I felt compelled to leave this review in the public interest.
*The nurse practitioner I was referred to was perfectly fine given the constraints of the platform, which perhaps keeps this review at 1/5 rather than 0/5 or < 0/5.
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SHM
I've read the negative reviews
I've read the negative reviews. I just have to say that's not been my experience at all at One Medical. Maybe I'm just lucky. The reason I signed up with them was because of the horrible medical care I was getting "in the wild" -- appointments scheduled months in the future, sitting in waiting rooms for hours despite an early morning appointment, being hustled through a three-minute visit without resolution of the issue, recourse or followup. It was why I stopped getting annual physicals for 20 years.
In fact, I saw it after I became a One Medical member but it was from referrals to outside specialists for a condition that my One Medical doctor caught and that a non-One Medical MD completely missed.
In July 2022, at my first visit with my current One Medical physician, my intent was to find out why I had discolorations around my ankles. She explained that it was probably lack of exercise and my COVID weight and how the legs are like a second heart to move fluids pooling in the legs. She was right about both but that's a digression. She ordered a full blood panel and called me two days later to tell me that my PSA was elevated and that she was referring me to a urologist because she said it was a 50/50 indication of prostate cancer.
That's when the clown show started again with the larger medical establishment, particularly at Mount Sinai: dropped appointments (but not being told it was dropped until I showed up for it), doctors losing test results, refusing to do telehealth visits only to deliver 30 seconds of news, being railroaded into scalpel surgery when I was a candidate for non-invasive stereotactic radiation surgery. I stayed in touch with my primary care MD at One Medical as she helped me to navigate my way through the substandard care I was getting elsewhere, including me firing my unhinged and ethically-challenged surgeon fifteen minutes before being wheeled into the OR. I finally landed at Weill Cornell/NY Presbyterian, which did a fabulous job. Five stars for them too.
But it was literally a year of hell with outside practitioners from the time she notified me about my PSA until it was finally resolved at NY Presby. I really couldn't have done it without her. She's remained bullish about me getting at least semi-annual wellness visits with blood tests.
Last year, I fell on some funky concrete stairs while carrying a heavy pressure washer, landing on my knee. It was incredibly painful and my leg was turning every color of the rainbow. I called One Medical. My doctor was on vacation so they sent me immediately to their Brooklyn Heights location to see a nurse practitioner who was concerned about "partition syndrome", referring me to NYU Langone's Level 1 trauma ER. I don't know how she did it but as soon as I signed in I was sent directly to an ER doctor despite a waiting room full of patients for a sonogram and X-ray. It turned out not to be anything serious but that One Medical NP took enough interest in the case to push it through the bureaucracy elsewhere.
I understand that One Medical isn't a hospital or even a clinic. They're concierge GPs who mostly just watchdog your health. If it's anything serious you get sent elsewhere. It was a One Medical doctor who saw signs of potential brain trauma in a good friend of mine and referred him out to NYU. It turned out to be a glioblastoma and he didn't make it. But he was pleased with One Medical because they saw him that very day about his blurry vision when his regular doctor gave him an appointment two weeks away.
I work in public health. I know the real standards of care in NYC. I've never had to wait more than two days to book an appointment at my Smith Street One Medical facility nor wait more than 20 minutes for that appointment. And I always get my same doctor unless it's for vaccination or blood draws, when it's appropriately an NP.