Research on Healthcare Costs, Quality and Outcomes — CFDA 93.226

Health-services research dollars on 711 awards

Assistance listing 93.226 is titled RESEARCH ON HEALTHCARE COSTS, QUALITY AND OUTCOMES in the USAspending.gov files this site indexes. The obligation total on that code is $899,360,719.35. An obligation is a recorded federal commitment on an award. It is not an outlay. Treating $899.4M as papers already published mixes two series. SpendingVault keeps the label as obligations.

711 awards sit under that dollar book. Dividing $899,360,719.35 by 711 produces a mean near $1.26 million per award record. That quotient is derived from the two packet totals. It is not a typical research-grant budget and not a cost per paper. Healthcare costs, quality, and outcomes dollars often sit on many investigator-initiated actions, which is why 711 records can carry $899.4M.

172 recipients in 41 states

CFDA 93.226 lists 172 recipients and 41 states against 711 awards. Recipient count is not unique patients. It is how many organizational recipients the assistance extract stores for this listing. A university or research institute can appear on multiple awards; 172 is not a census of investigators. The 41-state span is a coded-jurisdiction count, not a map of every hospital studied.

711 awards against 172 recipients averages about 4.1 award records per recipient. Extra modifications can lift the 711 tally without moving $899,360,719.35 much. The 93.226 hub keeps dollars, awards, recipients, and states visible so one statistic is not inferred from another.

Obligations versus research outlays

USAspending.gov publishes obligations on assistance awards. The $899,360,719.35 figure for CFDA 93.226 can include multi-year grant commitments that will disburse later. A claims-data extract, a quality-measure report, and a Treasury outlay series are different publications. This page does not translate the obligation total into those series.

If a number you expected is missing, the usual cause is a different reporting concept. Start from the obligation definition, then open the 93.226 program page. Do not stretch 711 awards or 172 recipients to cover every federal dollar that touches health-services research.

What the 93.226 tables omit

The healthcare costs, quality, and outcomes hub lists award-backed obligations from USAspending.gov. It is not a claims file, not a hospital star-rating table, and not a patient roster. Series that never appear as assistance awards will not show up in the $899,360,719.35. That omission is definitional rather than a gap in the 711 award rows.

Place-of-performance on 41 states is a coding field. A research organization coded to one cell can dominate geography while data partners sit in many counties. Read the program page before any state split.

How to cite CFDA 93.226

A complete citation is $899,360,719.35 in obligations for CFDA 93.226, covering 711 awards, 172 recipients, and 41 states, drawn from USAspending.gov assistance awards on SpendingVault. Name the series as obligations. If the question is award volume rather than dollars, lead with 711 awards and 172 recipients, then the $899.4M total.

Start with the Research on Healthcare Costs, Quality and Outcomes program page, then the all-programs index. Agency pages show awarding organizations; they do not replace this listing’s obligation total. Nothing here is medical or insurance advice.

A worked reading of the 93.226 extract

Start from the four packet facts: $899,360,719.35, 711 awards, 172 recipients, and 41 states under CFDA 93.226. The mean near $1.26 million is a quotient from the award count, not a typical study budget. If a later USAspending.gov file adds many small research actions, 711 can rise while dollars barely move. If a few large commitments post, $899.4M can jump without a matching jump in 172 recipients.

Nothing in the extract splits costs from quality from outcomes. Those cuts live outside this packet. Treat CFDA 93.226 as an assistance-listing tag on USAspending.gov award files. Open the program page, then the all-programs index, for a same-series ranking. Cite 711 awards and 172 recipients next to the dollars so volume is visible.

Questions

How much is obligated under healthcare costs and quality research?

USAspending.gov assistance awards indexed on SpendingVault show $899,360,719.35 in obligations for CFDA 93.226, Research on Healthcare Costs, Quality and Outcomes. That sum is an obligation total, not a Treasury outlay total and not a count of studies. The same extract lists 711 awards, 172 recipients, and 41 states.

How many research organizations appear on CFDA 93.226?

The indexed recipient count is 172 against 711 awards and 41 states. That is how many organizational recipients the assistance extract stores, not a census of investigators or patients. The $899,360,719.35 obligation total still sits on those 711 award rows.

Does the $899.4M total include research already paid?

Not as a cash-paid sum. USAspending reports obligations—commitments to pay—rather than outlays. The $899,360,719.35 figure can include amounts that will disburse later. The 711-award count is a record tally, not a count of publications. Cite CFDA 93.226 with the obligation total from USAspending.gov assistance awards, not an outlay series.

How many states appear on CFDA 93.226?

The extract codes 41 states for this research listing. That count is place-of-performance geography in USAspending.gov assistance files, not a map of every hospital studied. Those rows still sit under the $899,360,719.35 obligation total and the 172-recipient count.