I am looking for the 25 largest healthcare providers in the US by
revenue.  Providers include hosptial networks and systems and also
individual hospitals.  So, Kaiser Permanente is a hospital system and
should be considered one unit as opposed to broken down into separate
facilities.  The list should be from 2005 or 2004.

Hello Dlmanch,

Below you will find the largest 33 health care providers in the U.S.
by revenue. (2005)

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Rank         Business               Headquarters            Revenues
                                   (city, state)       U.S.$(millions)
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4     Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association Chicago,IL    182,700  
18    Cardinal Health, Inc.                  Dublin, OH     65,054 
43    UnitedHealth Group Incorporated    Minnetonka, MN     37,218 
54    Medco Health Solutions, Inc.   Franklin Lakes, NJ     35,352 
80    Caremark Rx, Inc.                   Nashville, TN     25,801 
85    Kaiser Permanente                     Oakland, CA     25,300 
88    HCA Inc.                            Nashville, TN     23,502 
101   WellPoint, Inc.                  Indianapolis, IN     20,815 
110   Aetna Inc.                           Hartford, CT     19,904 
126   CIGNA Corporation                Philadelphia, PA     18,176 
150   Express Scripts, Inc.        Maryland Heights, MO     15,115 
172   Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan    Detroit, MI     13,716 
180   Humana Inc.                        Louisville, KY     13,104 
185   PacifiCare Health Systems, Inc.       Cypress, CA     12,277 
201   Health Net, Inc.               Woodland Hills, CA     11,646 
245   Adventist Health System           Winter Park, FL     10,123
249   Tenet Healthcare Corporation           Dallas, TX      9,919 
275   Ascension Health                    St. Louis, MO      9,054 	
304   Health Care Service Corporation       Chicago, IL      8,190 
338   NewYork-Presbyterian Healthcare System N.York, NY      7,060 
353   The Regence Group                    Portland, OR      6,700 
372   Blue Shield of California       San Francisco, CA      6,203 
378   Catholic Health Initiatives            Denver, CO      6,121 
388   Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Florida Jacksonville, FL 5,991 
391   Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota Eagan, MN      5,984 
400   WellChoice, Inc.                     New York, NY      5,827 
408   Catholic Health East           Newtown Square, PA      5,700 
409   Sutter Health                      Sacramento, CA      5,672 
425   Catholic Healthcare West        San Francisco, CA      5,397 
438   Trinity Health                           Novi, MI      5,286 
443   Adventist Health                    Roseville, CA      5,237 
455   Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield New Jersey Newark,NJ    5,082 
470   Coventry Health Care, Inc.           Bethesda, MD      4,860 
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Source: 
500 Largest U.S. Businesses By revenues
Financial data compiled from the most recent fiscal-year information
available for each business as of February 2005. Businesses on this
list include public and private companies, government-owned
corporations, co-ops, mutual companies, university systems, and other
major business enterprises.
Source: Copyright (c) 2005, Hoover's, Inc., Austin, Texas. 

http://encarta.msn.com/media_461546336_761577700_-1_1/500_Largest_U_S_Businesses.html


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Another chart is available at CNN Money
Health Care Top 10
From the July 25, 2005 issue
http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/global500/industries/Health_Care/1.html


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Another ranking is also available below.

Top 10 Health Care Players, by 2004 Revenue
http://www.wetfeet.com/Content/Industries/Health%20Care.aspx

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Search terms used: 
Ranking of health care providers  Aetna HCA Unitedhealth Medco Caremark Kaiser


I hope the information provided is helpful!

Best regards,
Bobbie7

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Request for Answer Clarification by dlmanch-ga on 13 Apr 2006 13:33 PDT

Hi, your answer includes a number of healthcare payers.  Payers are
insurance companies.  I am not looking for those.  I am looking for
providers.  So Aetna, Cigna, Blue Cross Blue Shield, Regence, etc are
not providers.  Can you find me just providers?

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Clarification of Answer by bobbie7-ga on 13 Apr 2006 14:01 PDT

Dlmanch,

I am sorry you were unhappy with my answer.

If you did not feel that I answered your Question to your
satisfaction, you should use the "Request Clarification" process,
BEFORE rating the Answer prematurely. Once a Question has been
rated, the Rating can NOT be changed. Typically, when a Rating is
posted on a Question, it means that the Customer has closed the
Question, and no further input is required from the Researcher.

Could you please tell me which companies  do not belong on the list I provided.
You mentioned Aetna, Cigna, Blue Cross Blue Shield and  Regence. 

Are there others?

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Clarification of Answer by bobbie7-ga on 13 Apr 2006 14:05 PDT

I removed Aetna, Cigna, Blue Cross Blue Shield and  Regence.

Here is the revised list of the top 24 companies by revenue.

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Rank         Business               Headquarters            Revenues
                                   (city, state)       U.S.$(millions)
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18    Cardinal Health, Inc.                  Dublin, OH     65,054 
43    UnitedHealth Group Incorporated    Minnetonka, MN     37,218 
54    Medco Health Solutions, Inc.   Franklin Lakes, NJ     35,352 
80    Caremark Rx, Inc.                   Nashville, TN     25,801 
85    Kaiser Permanente                     Oakland, CA     25,300 
88    HCA Inc.                            Nashville, TN     23,502 
101   WellPoint, Inc.                  Indianapolis, IN     20,815 
150   Express Scripts, Inc.        Maryland Heights, MO     15,115 
180   Humana Inc.                        Louisville, KY     13,104 
185   PacifiCare Health Systems, Inc.       Cypress, CA     12,277 
201   Health Net, Inc.               Woodland Hills, CA     11,646 
245   Adventist Health System           Winter Park, FL     10,123
249   Tenet Healthcare Corporation           Dallas, TX      9,919 
275   Ascension Health                    St. Louis, MO      9,054 	
304   Health Care Service Corporation       Chicago, IL      8,190 
338   NewYork-Presbyterian Healthcare System N.York, NY      7,060 
378   Catholic Health Initiatives            Denver, CO      6,121 
400   WellChoice, Inc.                     New York, NY      5,827 
408   Catholic Health East           Newtown Square, PA      5,700 
409   Sutter Health                      Sacramento, CA      5,672 
425   Catholic Healthcare West        San Francisco, CA      5,397 
438   Trinity Health                           Novi, MI      5,286 
443   Adventist Health                    Roseville, CA      5,237 
470   Coventry Health Care, Inc.           Bethesda, MD      4,860 
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Request for Answer Clarification by dlmanch-ga on 20 Apr 2006 09:34 PDT

Sorry for closing the question.  This is the first time I have used
google answers and did not know.

Here are some of the companies that do not belong:

BCBS Association (Insurance)
Cardinal Health (Medical Equipment)
United Health Group
Medco
Caremark
Wellpoint
Aetna
Cigna
Express Scripts
BCBS Michigan
Humana
Pacificare 
Healthnet

That's just in the first half...

I'm not sure what the next step is.  If you want to forget about it
and move on, that's fine.

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Clarification of Answer by bobbie7-ga on 20 Apr 2006 10:12 PDT

Dear Dlmanch,

Thank you for your clarification.
There are two options; move on as you suggested or apply for a refund.
http://answers.google.com/answers/help.html#refund

Sincerely, 
Bobbie7

I asked for healthcare providers, not healthcare payers.

I'm pretty sure United Health Care and Coventry are insurers.

A number of the others are prescription providers:

"Pharmacy Benefit Plans evaluated:
AdvancePCS, Aetna, Anthem, Caremark, Eckerd Health Services,
Express-Scripts/NPA, Medco Health Solutions, Prescription
Solutions/PacifiCare, RxPRIME (CIGNA), United Healthcare,
Walgreens Health Initiatives & Well Point Pharmacy Management."

from 

http://www.wilsonrx.com/PDF/medco_pr_03_09_18.pdf

Search strategy:

medco caremark pacificare "Express scripts"

because I thought these were prescription providers (although that
wouldn't necessarily rule out them from also having hospitals). I was
hoping to find a list of prescription providers by using a number of
them in the search strategy.

You could add the VA to Bobbie's list to get the number of providers
back up. I don't know the VA's revenues, but

"With 157 hospitals nationwide, VHA manages one of the largest health
care systems in the United States."

http://www.va.gov/about_va/organization.asp