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Provider Relief Fund: the 25 Largest Recipients

Every Provider Relief Fund payment HRSA has published, summed by provider and ranked. The 25 largest are hospital systems, university health systems and public health authorities.

How this list is built

HRSA publishes one row per Provider Relief Fund payment, with the provider's name, city, state and amount. The archive holds the full table, acquired 21 July 2026 from data.cdc.gov. This list groups those rows by provider name and state, sums the payments, and ranks by the sum.

Unit ranked: the provider name and state as HRSA published them. Metric: total Provider Relief Fund payments in dollars. Universe: 418,720 provider-and-state pairs across 419,846 payment rows, totalling $135.06B; the 25 below hold $10.21B, 7.6 percent. Vintage: HRSA table as retrieved 21 July 2026.

The 25 largest recipients

#Provider, as HRSA names itStatePayments
1NEW YORK CITY HEALTH HOSTITALSNY$1,217,422,679
2THE NEW YORK PRESBYTERIAN HOSPITALNY$741,523,422
3STANFORD HEALTH CARECA$683,418,381
4MONTEFIORE MEDICAL CENTERNY$476,046,376
5NYU LANGONE HOSPITALSNY$435,297,143
6THE CLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATIONOH$431,032,935
7DIGNITY HEALTHNV$430,799,388
8LONG ISLAND JEWISH MEDICAL CENTERNY$414,702,860
9HMH HOSPITALS CORPORATIONNJ$401,192,239
10MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOR CANCER AND ALLIED DISEASESNY$389,194,131
11UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCOCA$385,066,513
12THE CHARLOTTE-MECKLENBURG HOSPITAL AUTHORITYNC$335,411,461
13YALE NEW HAVEN HOSPITALCT$325,601,732
14ADVOCATE HEALTH AND HOSPITAL CORPORATIONIL$323,923,780
15COUNTY OF LOS ANGELESCA$322,490,929
16MEMORIAL HERMANN HEALTH SYSTEMTX$321,044,718
17PRIME HEALTHCARE HOLDINGS, INC.CA$319,869,335
18MOUNT SINAI SERVICESNY$311,658,632
19SUTTER BAY MEDICAL FOUNDATIONCA$307,785,384
20SUTTER BAY HOSPITALSCA$292,531,252
21MULTICARE HEALTH SYSTEMWA$289,434,806
22PROVIDENCE HEALTH & SERVICES - WASHINGTONWA$274,740,113
23MASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATEDMA$265,032,637
24COMMONSPIRIT HEALTHCO$259,076,168
25REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGANMI$256,204,877

What this measures, and what it does not

This ranks the name on the payment, not the health system behind it. A system that billed through several named subsidiaries is split across several rows; a system that billed through one entity is not. The order is a ranking of payees, and a group-level ranking would look different.

HRSA's names are taken verbatim, misspellings included — the largest row reads "NEW YORK CITY HEALTH HOSTITALS" in the published file. The archive does not correct source data.

Every name in the 25 above is an organization. Further down the same table HRSA's rows name individual clinicians and single-doctor practices; this list stops at 25 and does not reach them.

American Rescue Plan Rural Distribution payments are published by HRSA in a separate table (47,087 rows, held in the archive) and are not included in these totals. Payments are nominal dollars and are not adjusted for the size of the provider, its patient volume, or its reported COVID-19 losses.

Sources

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