NAICS 621498 outpatient care centers and federal contract obligations

Eight hundred fifty-one awards, $2.70 billion committed

The obligation total of $2,698,375,087.82 sits on 851 contract awards. That pairing implies roughly $3.17 million per award, a high average relative to many service codes with thousands of small orders. A residual outpatient NAICS can still host large health-system contracts, IDIQ vehicles, and a smaller set of discrete clinic awards; the packet does not say which mix produced the 851 rows.

USAspending.gov is the source. Each row is a procurement action that reported 621498. The industry page is a filter on that field, not an inventory of every outpatient facility that bills the federal government, and not a substitute for CMS claims files.

What “all other” means on this code

Census uses 621498 for outpatient care centers that are not classified in the more specific 6214xx codes. On a contract, the six digits are whatever the awarding office entered. Two awards can share 621498 and still describe different clinical settings. This guide does not invent those settings; it only reports the tagged obligation sum and award count.

Health-related assistance awards (grants to clinics, cooperative agreements) often have no NAICS. Those instruments are outside the $2,698,375,087.82. Mixing this contract rollup with HHS grant dashboards would double-count some stories and miss others. Keep the instrument type in the sentence.

Obligations are not claims paid

In procurement, an obligation is the signed commitment. In health care billing, a paid claim is an outlay against a benefit program. NAICS 621498 on USAspending.gov follows the procurement definition. A contract to operate or support outpatient capacity can be obligated in full while invoices arrive later, or reduced by modification. This page does not publish paid-claim totals.

Using the industry table

The All Other Outpatient Care Centers hub lists the contract actions behind the $2.70 billion. Recipients, agencies, and dates belong on that table. The all-industries index is the place to compare 621498 with other six-digit health and non-health codes. No dollar on this guide is drawn from anywhere except the packet’s obligation total and award count.

What not to infer

The 851-award count is not a count of patients, beds, or sites. The $2,698,375,087.82 is not a quality score and not an argument for or against outpatient contracting. It is the USAspending.gov obligation sum for actions tagged 621498. Kidney dialysis, HMO medical centers, and physician offices use other codes when tagged that way.

Citing outpatient-center contracts without mixing benefit payments

Quote $2,698,375,087.82 as USAspending contract obligations on 851 awards tagged NAICS 621498. Do not add Medicare or Medicaid outlays to that sentence. Those programs pay claims; this table sums procurement commitments. A clinic can appear in both worlds through different instruments, and this packet does not reconcile them.

Because 621498 is residual, readers sometimes treat it as leftover or undocumented care. The public record says only that the awarding office reported this NAICS. More specific outpatient codes are excluded when they were used instead. If an award is later recoded, dollars can leave this industry. The live hub reflects warehouse refreshes; this guide restates the packet.

The 851 awards include orders and modifications that keep the code. One health-system vehicle can generate several of those rows. Converting 851 into 851 clinics overstates the geography of the file. Recipient and place-of-performance fields live on the industry page, not in these four packet facts.

Assistance without NAICS is omitted. A HRSA grant to an outpatient center would not increment $2,698,375,087.82 unless it were a contract with this code. Quote obligations, quote 851 awards, cite USAspending.gov, and do not offer medical advice. The table is a contracting filter, not a clinical directory.

Hospital, physician-office, and dialysis NAICS are neighboring health codes. Their dollars are not inside $2,698,375,087.82. The 851-award count should travel with the dollars so readers see a concentrated contract book rather than a claims file. Record corrections in USAspending.gov can move both figures. If a modification recodes an award to a tighter 6214xx line, the residual total falls without any clinic closing.

Readers quoting this industry should keep two packet facts in one sentence: $2,698,375,088 in USAspending.gov contract obligations and 851 awards tagged NAICS 621498 (ALL OTHER OUTPATIENT CARE CENTERS). Dropping either figure hides whether the book is a few large vehicles or many small orders. The rounded obligation used for citation is $2,698,375,088; cents on the source total, if any, do not change the industry identity of the code.

ALL OTHER OUTPATIENT CARE CENTERS shows a moderate award-record count (851). Individual vehicles can still be large. The count includes modifications that retain the NAICS. Health and social-assistance codes on USAspending.gov record tagged contracts, not benefit claims and not caseloads. ALL OTHER OUTPATIENT CARE CENTERS is not a clinical directory. Record corrections in the USAspending.gov warehouse can move both the $2,698,375,088 and the 851-award count. Treat the live ALL OTHER OUTPATIENT CARE CENTERS industry page as current and this file as a reading of the harvested packet.

Internal comparison belongs on the all-industries index, where NAICS 621498 sits beside other six-digit contract totals. Adding neighboring codes by hand creates a new total this packet does not contain; cite each NAICS if you add. Assistance awards that omit NAICS remain outside $2,698,375,088. Outlays remain unpublished here. Quote obligations, quote 851 awards, cite USAspending.gov, and open the overlay hub for recipients rather than inventing agencies, fiscal years, or unit counts the packet does not list.

Questions

How much federal contract money is tagged to NAICS 621498?

USAspending.gov shows $2,698,375,087.82 in obligations on contract awards coded All Other Outpatient Care Centers. That is a procurement commitment total, not an outlay or insurance-payment figure. Assistance without NAICS is excluded. USAspending.gov is the source for the $2,698,375,088 obligation stock and the 851 contract awards tagged ALL OTHER OUTPATIENT CARE CENTERS (NAICS 621498). Assistance awards that omit NAICS are outside both figures.

How many awards sit under outpatient code 621498?

The indexed file has 851 contract awards with NAICS 621498. Modifications that keep the code can increase the count. The number is not a count of clinics or visits. Treat 851 as an award-record count. Keep the citation on contract obligations: $2,698,375,088 on 851 awards coded NAICS 621498. Outlays, grants without NAICS, and unit counts are not in the packet that produced this page.

Does this include HHS grants to outpatient clinics?

Not by design. NAICS appears on contracts. Assistance awards may omit NAICS, so grant dollars are not in the $2,698,375,087.82 industry total even when the grantee operates outpatient sites. The industry hub lists the underlying USAspending.gov rows. This answer restates only packet facts: NAICS 621498, $2,698,375,088 obligated, and 851 awards for ALL OTHER OUTPATIENT CARE CENTERS.

Is NAICS 621498 a list of specific clinic types?

It is Census’s residual outpatient-center code as reported on the award. The packet supplies the name, $2,698,375,087.82, and 851 awards—not a breakdown of clinical specialties. Do not treat 851 as establishments or $2,698,375,088 as cash disbursed. Both numbers describe USAspending.gov contract actions tagged NAICS 621498 (ALL OTHER OUTPATIENT CARE CENTERS), not assistance and not outlays.