Rural Health Transformation Program in Iowa

One instrument, two keys in Iowa

CFDA 93.798 is titled RURAL HEALTH TRANSFORMATION PROGRAM. Crossed with Iowa place of performance, the obligation sum is $209,040,063.71 on 1 award. The national 93.798 hub includes other states. Iowa’s spending hub includes other programs. Only this intersection is reported here. $209,040,063.71 is an obligation aggregate from USAspending.gov, not an outlay and not a count of rural hospitals in Iowa.

A single award is a record-count pattern, not a proof that one hospital received the money. The join does not name Critical Access Hospitals, RHCs, or state agencies. Packet facts are $209,040,063.71, 1 award, IA, and 93.798. Correlation is not causation. Flex, SHIP, and other rural-health catalogs use different CFDA numbers.

93.798 is not Iowa Medicaid or Medicare

Medical Assistance Program and Medicare catalogs use different CFDA numbers. Mixing those into $209,040,063.71 would invent a broader coverage total than this cell contains. Facts available: Iowa, CFDA 93.798, $209,040,063.71, 1 award. Transformation workplans and facility lists are not in the facts.

The catalog title names Rural Health Transformation Program, not a claim about Iowa’s rural uninsured rate. With n = 1, a mean of $209,040,063.71 is just the total restated. Unique recipients are unpublished. 1 is not a count of hospitals.

Questions

How much Rural Health Transformation Program funding is obligated in Iowa?

USAspending records $209,040,063.71 in CFDA 93.798 obligations with Iowa place of performance on 1 award. That is the pair total, not an outlay and not a hospital census. Keep Rural Health Transformation Program and Iowa together when citing $209,040,063.71.

Why is there only one 93.798 award in Iowa?

The facts show 1 award totaling $209,040,063.71. With one award, the mean equals the total. Recipient names are not in the packet facts. 1 is a record count, not a facility census. Original filings remain on USAspending.gov for this 93.798 × IA pair.

Is this Iowa’s total federal rural-health spending?

No. This join is CFDA 93.798 only. Other rural-health catalogs appear on separate Iowa program pages. Nationwide 93.798 is not limited to Iowa. Obligations of $209,040,063.71 are not outlays. The overlay is the live Rural Health Transformation–Iowa table.

Do campaign donations fund Iowa rural-health transformation awards?

No. FEC contribution files and USAspending award files are different datasets. This page reports $209,040,063.71 in 93.798 obligations tagged to Iowa. Correlation is not causation. Do not treat donations as the funding source.