Universal Service Fund - Rural Health Care in Alaska

Alaska x 32.005 is a rural-health USF join, not a clinic census

This page pairs CFDA 32.005, UNIVERSAL SERVICE FUND - RURAL HEALTH CARE, with Alaska place of performance. The listing, in program language, subsidizes telecommunications and broadband for eligible rural health-care providers. SpendingVault sums tagged obligations: $325,835,386.88 on 644 awards. The extract does not list clinics, circuits, or bandwidth. Treat the pair as a catalog intersection, not a ranking of which state is more remote, and not a claim that 644 awards equal 644 clinics.

Other FCC listings — Supply Chain Reimbursement on 32.010, or different USF windows — sit outside $325,835,386.88 unless they also carry 32.005. Alaska’s ferry-grant join on 20.532 is a DOT overlay, not an FCC subset. Mixing USF with ferry capital would invent a combined state figure the packet never computed. Correlation between this obligation sum and telehealth visit counts is not causation. Visit figures are not in the packet. Place of performance as Alaska locates the tagged awards; it does not deposit $325,835,386.88 in the state treasury.

644 awards behind $325.8 million

Award count is a row count of assistance awards, including possible annual circuits, modifications, and provider-level lines. It is not a census of clinics, hospitals, or communities. Mean obligation is about $505,955.57 if $325,835,386.88 were divided evenly across 644 lines — a mechanical ratio, not a published subsidy, and not a typical circuit cost. The packet has no broadband versus voice split inside 32.005.

Six hundred forty-four lines are too many to narrate one by one. Sort the Alaska 32.005 overlay by amount to see concentration. This page will not invent provider names. Open Universal Service Fund - Rural Health Care in Alaska for the stored table. Do not convert 644 into a map of Alaska clinics. The $325,835,386.88 total remains an obligation rollup on tagged awards. Inspect named lines rather than inferring a facility census.

Questions

How much USF Rural Health Care funding is obligated in Alaska?

USAspending.gov shows $325,835,386.88 in obligations for CFDA 32.005 with Alaska as place of performance, across 644 awards. The sum is a commitment total on assistance awards, not outlays and not Alaska’s full health or telecommunications budget. Other FCC listings are outside this join unless they also carry 32.005.

Do 644 awards mean 644 Alaska clinics?

No. Award count is a row count of assistance awards and can include annual circuits and modifications. It is not a clinic or community census. The packet does not name providers. See the Alaska 32.005 overlay for named lines as USAspending stored them.

Does this include Supply Chain Reimbursement in Alaska?

No. This page is CFDA 32.005, Universal Service Fund - Rural Health Care. Supply Chain Reimbursement sits on CFDA 32.010 as a separate listing. Those dollars are not inside $325,835,386.88 unless the award also carries 32.005. The extract has no circuit table.

Is $326 million already paid on Alaska rural health telecom bills?

Not on this metric. Obligations are recorded commitments on assistance awards. Outlays are payments from the Treasury. The $325,835,386.88 headline is the obligation rollup in SpendingVault’s extract. Service-month draws and remaining balances are not published in this packet.