Department of Health and Human Services in Oregon

A high-dollar HHS slice on a modest row count

The relationship on this page is awarding agency 075 (Department of Health and Human Services) crossed with place-of-performance state OR. $74,442,796,497.99 is the obligation sum inside that intersection. Four thousand three hundred twenty-one awards is the matching count. Neither figure is Oregon’s whole federal portfolio, and neither is HHS’s national total. The pair is the story; each parent table is larger.

Because 4,321 rows carry $74.44 billion, a handful of large instruments can move the average. The about-$17.23 million mean is $74,442,796,497.99 ÷ 4,321. It is not a typical hospital contract and not a typical research grant. USAspending’s obligation field mixes award types. The join does not say which CFDA programs sit inside the total.

$74,442,796,497.99 can look inevitable once it is printed in a headline. It is not. It is the sum of records that happen to carry both tags, 4,321 of them in this harvest. A different coding of place of performance would change the sum. So would a different awarding-agency code.

Agency 075 without pretending it is every HHS account

Department of Health and Human Services is the label USAspending attaches to awarding agency 075. Sub-agencies, operating divisions, and reimbursable work can all roll into that code depending on how the award was reported. This page does not split 075 further. Readers who want HHS without an Oregon filter should use the agency 075 hub; that hub will not equal $74,442,796,497.99.

Oregon’s statewide spending page includes every awarding agency tagged to OR, so HHS is one column among many. The overlay /states/or/agencies/075/ is the only view that keeps both keys. That is why 4,321 is the award count quoted here.

If a citation of $74,442,796,497.99 does not mention both the awarding agency and the place-of-performance state, it is not citing this join. If a citation of 4,321 does not mention both keys, it is not this file’s count.

Questions

How much has HHS obligated in Oregon according to USAspending?

Awarding agency 075 (Department of Health and Human Services) shows $74,442,796,497.99 in obligations with Oregon place of performance, across 4,321 awards. That is an obligation sum for the pair, not an outlay total and not HHS’s national figure. The pair is awarding agency 075 (Department of Health and Human Services) and place-of-performance Oregon.

Why is the average award so large?

Dividing $74,442,796,497.99 by 4,321 awards yields about $17.23 million. A small row count under a large dollar total produces a high mean. The mean is not a typical award size and does not identify program type. That ratio uses only $74,442,796,497.99 and 4,321 from the packet.

Does this include every HHS program in Oregon?

It includes awards USAspending codes to agency 075 with place of performance OR. Other agency codes, other states, and fields this aggregate does not carry are outside $74,442,796,497.99 and outside the 4,321-award count. Only place-of-performance Oregon plus awarding agency 075 (Department of Health and Human Services) enter $74,442,796,497.99.

Is place of performance the same as the recipient’s state?

Not necessarily. This join uses USAspending’s place-of-performance state Oregon. Recipient location can differ. The $74,442,796,497.99 total follows the performance-state tag, not a beneficiary census. The published pair remains Department of Health and Human Services (agency 075) with Oregon place of performance: $74,442,796,497.99 on 4,321 awards.