The company closed the book on one issue vital to its survival on Dec. 30 when it agreed to pay $325 million over three years to settle a federal complaint that it overcharged Medicare, its largest payer.

The report said AWB had been the largest payer of kickbacks to the Hussein government.

As of 2006, few (if any) of these programs are known to financially break-even, mostly because the Medicare program for people over age 65 (the largest payer) is very restrictive about paying for telehealth.

He still retained property in Dudley, being the largest payer of poor rates there in 1649; apart from houses in the town, his land at Netherton Hall nearby was set down at 195 acres.

If taxed, the corporation would be the largest payer of taxes in the City of Niagara Falls.

"She has been running a business within WellPoint as a Medicare contactor," Mr. Boorady said, noting that "the government is already a large payer and becoming even larger."

As the largest payer for health-care services in the United States, Medicare has a wealth of information online through its Hospital Compare tool.

It would let Olympia make six equal payments of about $10.5 million, for a total of $63 million, plus 18 percent interest, the city's standard rate for back taxes for large commercial payers.

It is also a disgrace that the Netherlands is the third largest payer, after Germany and Italy, when it comes to the net contribution for 2008.

The five largest non-dividend payers in the S.& P. - Microsoft, Cisco, America Online, Oracle and MCI WorldCom - are all profitable and have never paid dividends.