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Department of Health and Human Services in Kentucky

Federal obligations from Department of Health and Human Services to Kentucky

Total obligated

$351.71B

Awards

3K

USAspending.gov records $335,211,786,686 in Department of Health and Human Services obligations coded to agency 075 with Kentucky place of performance, across only 2,875 awards. That is a high dollar total on a short row list. Average obligation per award is about $116,595,404 — a ratio of two packet facts, not a typical Kentucky grant.

Key figures

  • HHS (075) in Kentucky: $335,211,786,686 across 2,875 awards.
  • Average obligation per award is about $116,595,404.
  • The total is obligations, not outlays, and not nationwide HHS.
  • KY is place of performance, not a services-received claim.

What the HHS–Kentucky join is

Awarding agency 075 and place-of-performance state KY meet here. $335,211,786,686 is the obligation sum on awards that carry both tags. It is not HHS’s national budget, not Kentucky’s entire federal inflow, and not cash already paid. It is a filter on USAspending.gov.

2,875 is a modest action count beside $335.2 billion in commitments. A few large awards can dominate a dollar total even when the row count looks small. The join does not rank Kentucky against other states and does not name the programs inside HHS.

Open Department of Health and Human Services in Kentucky for the filtered table, Kentucky federal spending for all agencies, Department of Health and Human Services for agency 075 nationwide, and All spending ties for other pairs.

A short award list next to a large dollar total

Dividing $335,211,786,686 by 2,875 yields about $116,595,404 per award on average. That average hides contracts, grants, and other instruments. It is not a typical Louisville health-system award and not a typical Appalachian clinic grant. Repeat awards and modifications still add rows; 2,875 is not a unique-recipient census.

Medicaid and rural-health folklore may explain why a reader opens this pair. Those stories are not packet program codes. Agency names and recipient rows live on the overlay table, not in this narrative’s extra columns.

Full analysis: HHS federal obligations in Kentucky (agency 075)

Questions

How much has HHS obligated in Kentucky?
USAspending.gov records $335,211,786,686 in obligations for awarding agency 075 with Kentucky place of performance, covering 2,875 awards. That is an obligation total, not an outlay total, and not HHS’s nationwide budget. Original filings remain on the source sites.
Why are there so few HHS awards in Kentucky relative to the dollars?
The extract lists 2,875 award actions totaling $335,211,786,686. A short row list can still hold a large dollar total if a few awards dominate. Average obligation per award is about $116,595,404, a ratio, not a typical grant size. Unique recipients are not published here.
Does place of performance mean the money stayed in Kentucky?
No. Kentucky is a USAspending geography tag on awards that also carry agency 075. Work, subcontracting, or later modifications can occur elsewhere. $335,211,786,686 is not proof that every dollar was disbursed to Kentucky residents. Original filings remain on the source sites.
Where is the live HHS–Kentucky table?
Department of Health and Human Services in Kentucky is the overlay. Kentucky federal spending shows all agencies in the state. Department of Health and Human Services shows agency 075 without a state filter. All spending ties lists other pairs. Original filings remain on the source sites.

USAspending.gov aggregate of federal obligations by state and awarding agency. Obligations are not outlays.

How this pair fits

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