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HCA Healthcare

hcahealthcare.com · Healthcare · HCA

Ranked 929 of 2,047 companies in the study

34Overall score
  • Visibility7
  • Citations0
  • Sentiment67
  • Site quality87
  • AI readiness36
What this means for HCA Healthcare

AI assistants name HCA Healthcare in 5% of answers, a bit more often than the typical company in its sector. HCA Healthcare has an overall score of 34 out of 100, which ranks 929th of 2,047 companies studied. Its website passes 3 of 14 technical checks for AI tool readiness.

We asked 15 unbranded questions about the healthcare market: none named HCA Healthcare. AI assistants named it in 3 of 60 answers (5.0%). The typical healthcare company is named in 3.3% of answers. By how often it is named, HCA Healthcare ranks 44 of 105 in its sector.

Named by AI in
5.0%
3 of 60 answers
Share of mentions
11.1%
compared with 5 rivals
AI readiness
3/14
technical checks passed. Typical for its sector: 3
Rank in its sector
29 of 105
by overall score, where the typical healthcare company scores 31
How HCA Healthcare compares with all 2,047 companies

Every dot is a company in the study. Hover one to see it; click to open its report.

This companySame sectorEvery other companyNever named

What makes up the score

Five parts, each scored out of 100.

Visibility
7

How often AI assistants name the company

Citations
0

How often AI uses the company's own website as a source

Sentiment
67

How positively AI describes the company

Site quality
87

How well built the website's own pages are

AI readiness
36

How easily AI tools can read and use the website

Visibility is calculated from the answers on this page. How the score is built.

Compared with healthcare

105 companies in this sector. The line on each bar is the typical company.

Overall score34
Ranks 29 of 105. Typical company: 31
Named in answers5%
Ranks 44 of 105. Typical company: 3%
AI readiness36
Ranks 9 of 105. Typical company: 21
What Gemini actually said

An answer that names the company

“What are the best integrated hospital networks for managing complex health conditions in the United States?”

Integrated hospital networks, also known as Integrated Delivery Networks (IDNs), are crucial for managing complex health conditions in the United States. These systems offer a comprehensive range of healthcare services, often including hospitals, clinics, and even insurance plans, under a central management structure. This integrated approach aims to provide seamless care, reduce patient leakage, and improve outcomes by coordinating across various providers and leveraging shared patient information through electronic health records (EHRs).

While a definitive "best" list can be subjective and …

The AI’s answer as we received it, shortened and not checked for accuracy.

Also named
CommonSpirit Health4Ascension1
Share of mentions

How the mentions in these answers were split between this company and its rivals

Community Health Systems (CHS)
63.6%
CommonSpirit Health
18.2%
HCA Healthcare
13.6%
Ascension
4.5%
Tenet Healthcare
0.0%
Universal Health Services (UHS)
0.0%
Which AI assistants named the company

Answers naming it, out of answers received

Gemini
1/15
Perplexity
1/15
Claude
1/15
OpenAI
0/15
Ready for AI agents

What this website publishes for an AI agent to read, use and buy from, on a scale of six levels.

  1. 0
  2. 1
  3. 2
  4. 3
  5. 4
  6. 5

Level 1: Basic web presence. Two of robots.txt, a sitemap and Link headers are in place.

To reach level 2:
  • Content Signals
Show every check, for your technical team
Discoverability
72 of 100
  • robots.txtPassed

    A valid robots.txt with crawl rules at the site root.

    study: 92.0%
  • SitemapPartly met

    Serve an XML sitemap and reference it from robots.txt.

    study: 86.8%
  • Link headersNot met

    Send Link headers such as rel="api-catalog" or rel="describedby" on the homepage.

    study: 0.3%
  • DNS for AI DiscoveryNot present

    Advertise agent endpoints with SVCB records under _agents.

    study: 5.5%
Content accessibility
0 of 100
  • Markdown negotiationNot met

    Return a markdown version when asked with Accept: text/markdown, for example at the CDN.

    study: 1.9%
  • llms.txtNot met

    Publish an llms.txt with a short summary and the key links.

    study: 25.1%
Bot access control
32 of 100
  • AI bot rulesPartly met

    Add explicit robots.txt groups for the main AI crawlers.

    study: 93.4%
  • Content SignalsNot met

    Add a Content-Signal line for search, ai-input and ai-train to robots.txt.

    study: 1.4%
  • Web Bot AuthNot present

    Only relevant if you run your own agents or crawlers: publish a signing key directory.

    study: 0.2%
APIs, auth and MCP
0 of 100
  • API CatalogNot met

    List public APIs in a linkset at /.well-known/api-catalog.

    study: 0.3%
  • OAuth discoveryNot met

    Publish OpenID Connect or OAuth server metadata under /.well-known.

    study: 11.8%
  • OAuth Protected ResourceNot met

    Serve protected resource metadata at /.well-known/oauth-protected-resource.

    study: 10.3%
  • auth.mdNot met

    Publish an auth.md describing how agents sign in.

    study: 0.0%
  • MCP Server CardNot met

    Offer an MCP server and publish its server card under /.well-known.

    study: 0.2%
  • A2A Agent CardNot met

    Publish an agent card at /.well-known/agent-card.json.

    study: 0.1%
  • Agent SkillsNot met

    Publish a skills index with the main tasks agents can do.

    study: 0.2%
  • WebMCPCould not check

    Register key actions such as search or cart as WebMCP tools.

    study: 33.7%
  • ARD manifestNot met

    Publish an ai-catalog.json listing every agent interface.

    study: 0.1%

Score 24 of 100 · 97% of checks could run · checked on October 5, 2026 · www.hcahealthcare.com · 2,047 companies scanned

See how every company did, and how this was measured.

The checks behind the AI readiness score

3 of 14 passed. This list is for your technical team. The percentage is how many companies in the study pass each check.

These 14 checks ran during the audit and are what the AI readiness part of the overall score counts. The scan above ran later and is stricter on Link headers and Markdown, so a check can pass here and not there.

Show the 14 checks
Discoverability
  • Passedrobots.txt publishedstudy: 85.0%
  • PassedXML sitemapstudy: 73.2%
  • Not metHTTP Link headers (RFC 8288)study: 29.0%
Content Accessibility
  • Not metMarkdown content negotiationstudy: 8.3%
  • Not metllms.txt publishedstudy: 21.7%
  • PassedToken budget (page weight)study: 95.2%
Bot Access Control
  • Not metExplicit AI bot rulesstudy: 13.0%
API / Auth / MCP
  • Not metAPI Catalog (.well-known/api-catalog)study: 0.2%
  • Not metOAuth Authorization Server discoverystudy: 10.1%
  • Not metOAuth Protected Resource discoverystudy: 9.3%
  • Not metMCP Server Cardstudy: 0.0%
  • Not metA2A Agent Cardstudy: 0.0%
  • Not metWebMCP toolsstudy: 4.2%
  • Not metAgent Skills declaredstudy: 0.0%
What AI crawlers may read (robots.txt)

This website sets no rules for any AI crawler by name, like 84% of the websites whose rules we could read. Every AI crawler follows its general rules.

Training AI
  • GPTBotpartly
  • ClaudeBotpartly
  • Anthropic-AIpartly
  • Google-Extendedpartly
  • Applebot-Extendedpartly
  • Meta-ExternalAgentpartly
  • FacebookBotpartly
  • Bytespiderpartly
  • CCBotpartly
  • Diffbotpartly
  • Omgilibotpartly
AI search
  • OAI-SearchBotpartly
  • Claude-SearchBotpartly
  • PerplexityBotpartly
  • Applebotpartly
  • Amazonbotpartly
  • YouBotpartly
Answering questions
  • ChatGPT-Userpartly
  • Claude-Userpartly
  • Perplexity-Userpartly
  • DuckAssistBotpartly
  • MistralAI-Userpartly

Read from the website’s own rules file (robots.txt). An asterisk marks a crawler the file names. The rest follow its general rules. “Partly” means only some pages are blocked.

Websites the AI used as sources

How many times each website was listed as a source in these answers

pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
44
beckershospitalreview.com
19
ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
13
aha.org
11
cms.gov
7
ajmc.com
5
ijic.org
5
nexushealthsystems.com
5
yellowpages.com
5
academyhealth.org
4

In the study as S&P 500.

Every question, and where the company came up (1 of 15)
QuestionOpenAIClaudePerplexityGemini
  • What can I do if I’m having trouble accessing my electronic health records from a hospital network?
  • Is there a difference in pricing between care at a hospital network outpatient center and an independent urgent care facility?
  • What factors affect the cost of care in large integrated healthcare service networks?
  • Integrated hospital networks vs standalone specialty clinics: what are the pros and cons?
  • What are the alternatives to using an integrated hospital network for surgical procedures?
  • Where can I seek primary care outside of a major hospital network in the United States?
  • How does a nationwide healthcare service network compare to regional healthcare systems in terms of patient outcomes?
  • What are common ways hospital networks collaborate with local communities during public health emergencies?
  • How do I find highly rated outpatient care centers in my area?
  • What are the best integrated hospital networks for managing complex health conditions in the United States?
  • What options are available for uninsured patients who need hospital services outside of large health networks?
  • Why might I experience delays in scheduling follow-up appointments through a hospital service network?
  • Are integrated hospital networks worth the higher cost for families with ongoing medical needs?
  • Should I choose an integrated healthcare network if I’m looking for coordinated care across multiple specialists?
  • How do integrated healthcare networks support patients managing chronic illnesses?
named the companyanswered without naming itdid not answer

Columns, left to right: OpenAI, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini. The AI assistants often disagree. Across the study, on 40% of the questions where a company is named, only one of the four names it.

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