Seven U.S. Healthcare Leaders Included in Bloomberg Billionaires Index
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The Bloomberg Billionaires Index, which ranks the wealthiest individuals across industries worldwide, includes seven leaders from U.S. healthcare. The wealthiest of these is Thomas Frist Jr., MD, co-founder of HCA Healthcare, with a net worth of $45.4 billion. Other U.S. healthcare billionaires include Patrick Soon-Shiong, MD, inventor of the cancer drug Abraxane and founder of NantWorks, and Bob Duggan, investor and co-CEO of Summit Therapeutics.
The Most Affluent Figures in U.S. Healthcare According to Bloomberg Billionaires Index
The newest Bloomberg Billionaires Index, cataloguing the world’s 500 wealthiest people from varied industries, features seven U.S. healthcare magnates. The richest among them is Thomas Frist Jr., MD, co-founder of HCA Healthcare. The following are U.S healthcare billionaires from the Bloomberg Index with their net worth as of Feb. 17. The complete index can be found here.
1. Thomas Frist Jr., MD
Total net worth: $45.4 billion
Year-to-date change: +$4.82 billion
Overall index ranking: 43
Dr. Frist co-founded HCA Healthcare, a Nashville-based for-profit hospital operator, and the United Way’s Alexis de Tocqueville Society in the 1960s.
2. Patrick Soon-Shiong, MD
Total net worth: $14.8 billion
YTD change: +$2.75 billion
Overall index ranking: 201
Dr. Soon-Shiong is a biotech entrepreneur who invented the cancer drug Abraxane. He founded NantWorks, a collection of healthcare, biotech, and AI startups, and owns the Los Angeles Times.
3. Bob Duggan
Total net worth: $13.3 billion
YTD change: -$486 million
Overall index ranking: 234
Duggan is an investor in the healthcare sector, co-CEO and chairman of Summit Therapeutics, a Miami-based biopharmaceutical oncology company.
4. Carl Cook
Total net worth: $11.2 billion
YTD change: -$2.23 billion
Overall index ranking: 305
Cook is the owner and CEO of Cook Group, a medical device manufacturer based in Bloomington, Indiana, co-founded by his parents in 1963.
5. Ronda Stryker
Total net worth: $10.6 billion
YTD change: +$339 million
Overall index ranking: 334
Ms. Stryker, granddaughter of the founder Homer Stryker, MD, and daughter of a former company president, is a director and major individual shareholder of medical technology company Stryker.
6. Pat Stryker
Total net worth: $8.80 billion
YTD change: +$164 million
Overall index ranking: 416
Ms. Stryker is the founder of the Bohemian Foundation supporting music, community, global and civic programs. She is also a Stryker Corp shareholder.
7. Li Ge, PhD
Total net worth: $8.22 billion
Year-to-date change: +$559 million
Overall index ranking: 455
Dr. Ge is a scientist, entrepreneur, and chairman and CEO of WuXi AppTec, a Shanghai-based pharma and biotech services company, with operations spanning Asia, Europe and North America.
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