Universal Service Fund — Rural Health Care — CFDA 32.005

Rural health-care USF obligations at $1.38 billion

USAspending.gov records $1,384,094,647.96 in obligations under CFDA 32.005. Forty-two thousand twenty awards produce that stock. A simple average is about $32,939 per award — consistent with recurring connectivity-support rows rather than hospital construction grants. That average is a quotient of two packet totals, not a typical monthly circuit bill and not a cost per clinic.

The assistance-listing title is UNIVERSAL SERVICE FUND - RURAL HEALTH CARE. CFDA 32.005 is the identifier. Other universal-service or rural-health listings tagged under different CFDA numbers are not mixed into the $1.38 billion. Combining those codes would invent a combined connectivity total this packet does not contain.

1,121 recipients and 42,020 award rows

One thousand one hundred twenty-one recipients share 42,020 awards, or about 37.5 award records per recipient on average. Splitting $1,384,094,647.96 evenly would assign about $1.23 million per recipient. That density is a recurring-support pattern: a moderate number of named organizations carrying many assistance rows. The packet does not list the 1,121. Recipient count is the organizational headcount on the federal extract, not a census of rural clinics or telecom providers.

Fifty-one jurisdictions in the geographic count cover states plus additional coded entities in the USAspending state field. Rural health-care USF dollars still follow eligible sites and circuits, not equal shares. Place-of-performance amounts are on the program table.

Award rows are not a clinic census

Among connectivity listings, 32.005 is a high-volume file: 42,020 rows against 1,121 recipients. Payment-level or funding-year rows can inflate award count far beyond unique facilities. Award count is therefore a weak proxy for “number of rural clinics” and a worse proxy for circuits. Recipients (1,121) tell you how many named organizations sit on the extract; awards (42,020) tell you how many assistance rows were stored.

The packet does not report bandwidth, telehealth visits, or unserved counties. Citing 42,020 as clinics would be a unit error. Keep the units straight: dollars, awards, recipients, jurisdictions.

Obligations versus USF outlays

The $1,384,094,647.96 is an obligation total from USAspending.gov. Outlays — cash paid against Rural Health Care USF awards — are not in the packet. A support file can show a large obligation stock while disbursements follow a later calendar. Deobligations and upward adjustments both move the total. A remaining-balance question is an outlay question this extract does not answer.

Use CFDA 32.005 to size this rural health-care USF listing in the assistance file. Do not use it as a broadband-coverage dashboard. Those series live elsewhere. This page reports the obligation book tagged 32.005.

What the 32.005 tables omit

The program hub lists award-backed obligations from USAspending.gov. It is not a clinic directory, not a circuit inventory, and not a telehealth census. Series that never appear as assistance awards will not show up in the $1,384,094,647.96. That omission is definitional rather than a gap in the 42,020 award rows.

Place-of-performance on 51 jurisdictions is a coding field. Read the program page before treating those cells as equal shares. Recipient dollars, if shown on the hub, are still obligation amounts, not cash already paid to providers.

A researcher comparing 32.005 with other universal-service or rural-health codes should keep CFDA numbers separate. About $32,939 per award describes row size, not a monthly circuit bill.

Where the 32.005 table lives

The program page overlays these four facts. The all-programs index ranks 32.005 among other assistance listings. Agency pages show awarding-agency rollups that may include this CFDA among other listings. For 32.005 only, start on the program page.

CFDA 32.005’s 42,020 awards spread $1,384,094,647.96 across 1,121 recipients and 51 jurisdictions. Quote award count as a record count, recipient count as the organizational headcount, and dollars as obligations from USAspending.gov. About 37.5 award records per recipient is the density story on this listing. Outlays remain a separate column. Source: USAspending.gov assistance awards.

Rural Health Care USF is a high-row support listing: 42,020 awards on 1,121 recipients across 51 jurisdictions. About 37.5 rows per recipient is the fingerprint, not a clinic census. Read the $1,384,094,647.96 as the USAspending obligation stock for CFDA 32.005 only.

Questions

How much is obligated for Universal Service Fund Rural Health Care?

USAspending.gov records $1,384,094,647.96 in obligations for CFDA 32.005. SpendingVault indexes 42,020 awards, 1,121 recipients, and 51 jurisdictions. The figure is an obligation sum from assistance awards, not an outlay and not a clinic count. CFDA 32.005’s $1.38 billion is the USAspending obligation stock.

How many awards does CFDA 32.005 carry?

The listing shows 42,020 awards against 1,121 recipients, or about 37.5 award records per recipient. A simple average is about $32,939 per award. Award count is not a count of rural clinics. Recipient dollars are on the program page.

How many organizations receive 32.005 awards?

The extract lists 1,121 recipients. Those are organizational recipients on assistance awards tagged 32.005, not a census of rural hospitals. Geographic coding covers 51 jurisdictions. The packet does not name the 1,121 or publish circuit counts.

Is $1.38 billion already paid for rural health connectivity?

Not necessarily. Obligations are commitments. Outlays are payments. CFDA 32.005’s indexed total is the obligation stock from USAspending.gov. This page does not report cash drawn, remaining balances, or bandwidth. The $1,384,094,647.96 on 42,020 awards is the obligation figure.