Investments

Equity method investment

Investment in NantOmics

In 2015, the Company purchased a total of 169,074,539 Series A-2 units of NantOmics, LLC (“NantOmics”), a related party of the Company, for an aggregate purchase price of $250,774. The Series A-2 units do not have any voting rights and, at the time of purchase, represented approximately 14.28% of NantOmics’ issued and outstanding membership interests. NantOmics is majority owned by NantWorks and delivers molecular diagnostic capabilities with the intent of providing actionable intelligence and molecularly driven decision support for cancer patients and their providers at the point of care.

The Company applies the equity method to account for its investment in NantOmics as the interest in the equity is similar to a partnership interest. Further, the Company has the ability to exert significant influence over the operating and financial policies of the entity since NantWorks controls both NantHealth and NantOmics. The difference between the carrying amount of the investment in NantOmics and the Company’s underlying equity in NantOmics’ net assets relate to both definite and indefinite-lived intangible assets. At the time of the purchase, the Company attributed $28,195 and $14,382 of these differences to NantOmics’ developed technologies and its reseller agreement with the Company, respectively, prior to the application of developed technology intangibles included in NantOmics net assets, and the remaining basis differences were attributed to goodwill. The Company amortizes the basis differences related to the definite-lived intangible assets over the assets’ estimated useful lives and records these amounts as a reduction in the carrying amount of its investment and an increase in its equity method loss.

At February 28, 2018, the Company transferred 9,088,362 of the Series A-2 units to NantOmics as consideration for the assignment of NantHealth Labs, Inc. (see Note 19). An additional 564,779 units were transferred by May 31, 2018. This reduced NantHealth's ownership of NantOmics to approximately 13.58%.

Pertaining to the Company's share of NantOmics' income or loss and amortization of basis differences, for the three months ended March 31, 2020 and 2019, the Company recognized losses of $1,784 and $2,210, respectively.

The Company reports its share of NantOmics’ income or loss and the amortization of basis differences using a one quarter lag. The Company used the following summarized financial information for NantOmics for the three months ended December 31, 2019 and 2018, to record its equity method losses for the three months ended March 31, 2020 and 2019:



	Three Months Ended December 31
	2019			2018
Revenues	$	223		$	1,746
Gross loss	(1,163		)	(520		)
Loss from operations	(3,856		)	(6,884		)
Impairment on equity investments	—			(12,265		)
Net loss	(1,360		)	(17,851		)
Net loss attributable to NantOmics	(1,329		)	(17,752		)