Department of Health and Human Services obligations in Arkansas

Few HHS awards, large obligation sum

This relationship page is 075 × AR. $33,817,059,276.78 is the obligation sum. 1,885 is the award count. A thin file under a large dollar total produces a high mean of about $17.94 million. A handful of large instruments can dominate. The overlay, not the mean, is where that mix would be visible.

SSA in Arkansas is 028 with a thicker file. The two totals are not interchangeable and are not added here.

If someone quotes $33,817,059,276.78 without mentioning 1,885 awards, the scale sounds like one instrument. If someone quotes 1,885 without $33,817,059,276.78, it sounds like volume for its own sake. The page exists because both tags sit on the same records. Do not scale the average into a typical contract or grant.

Agency 075 as a rollup

Department of Health and Human Services is the label on 075. This page does not split operating divisions. The agency hub without Arkansas will not equal $33,817,059,276.78. Overlay /states/ar/agencies/075/ is the both-keys table for 1,885 awards.

The architecture is simple. One hub is the agency without geography. One hub is the geography without this agency. One overlay is both. $33,817,059,276.78 and 1,885 belong to the overlay. The hubs answer different questions.

Arkansas geography

Place of performance AR excludes neighboring states. HHS awards coded there are outside $33,817,059,276.78. Place of performance is not a county map and not an enrollment roster.

The Arkansas federal spending hub shows 075 next to 028. Neighbors in a table are not a single health-and-benefits pipeline.

Informal regions — coasts, valleys, capitals, “the South” — are not keys in this aggregate. $33,817,059,276.78 follows one state-equivalent code. Awards tagged to adjacent codes stay out even when work is described as regional.

What 1,885 records are not

They are not 1,885 clinics and not 1,885 beneficiaries. They are award records summing to $33,817,059,276.78 in obligations. Outlays are unpublished. No year is in the facts.

De-obligation can shrink a prior commitment. The harvested total is what this page cites.

Limits

The join does not measure health outcomes. It does not claim FEC donations funded awards. See Department of Health and Human Services in Arkansas, Arkansas federal spending, Department of Health and Human Services, and All spending ties.

How to read this pair next to the hubs

Arkansas’s HHS pair is sparse: 1,885 awards under $33,817,059,276.78, about $17.94 million per record.

Read Department of Health and Human Services in Arkansas for the both-keys table, Arkansas federal spending for the geography mix, Department of Health and Human Services for the agency without this state, and All spending ties for other pairs. $33,817,059,276.78 is not the agency nationwide and not the state from every agency. 1,885 is the row count inside the filter.

Place of performance does not mean every dollar was disbursed to residents of that state. Obligations do not mean outlays. Those distinctions are why $33,817,059,276.78 is described as a commitment aggregate.

Do not scale averages. Do not import FEC receipts. Do not treat this snapshot as live if the overlay has moved. The join remains $33,817,059,276.78 on 1,885 awards.

Nothing here is a recommendation to seek an award, to move a facility, or to vote a particular way. Public records can be read without being turned into advice. $33,817,059,276.78 on 1,885 awards is a description of a USAspending intersection. Outlays are unpublished. Years are unpublished. Unique vendors are unpublished. The honest remainder is still large enough to be useful: an agency, a state tag, an obligation sum, a record count, and four links that keep those facts in their lanes.

Researchers sometimes want a per-capita figure, a year split, or a list of top recipients under $33,817,059,276.78. Those products need columns this packet does not contain. Inventing a population divisor or a fiscal year would break the contract. What the packet does contain is the intersection: 1,885 award records summing to $33,817,059,276.78 in obligations. That is already a complete answer to the question “what does this agency–state pair publish?” It is an incomplete answer to almost every other question, and the incompleteness is the point of the caveats on this page. Department of Health and Human Services in Arkansas remains the filtered table. Arkansas federal spending and Department of Health and Human Services remain the parents. All spending ties remains the index of other intersections.

Questions

How much has HHS obligated in Arkansas?

USAspending records $33,817,059,276.78 in obligations for agency 075 with Arkansas place of performance, on 1,885 awards. That is the HHS–Arkansas join only. The pair is awarding agency 075 (Department of Health and Human Services) and place-of-performance Arkansas. It is not Department of Health and Human Services nationwide and not Arkansas from every awarding agency.

Why is the average about $17.94 million?

Because $33,817,059,276.78 is divided by only 1,885 awards. A thin file raises the mean. The mean is not a typical grant. That ratio uses only $33,817,059,276.78 and 1,885 from the packet. A mean hides mix: a few large instruments can sit beside many smaller ones.

Is SSA in Arkansas included?

No. Social Security Administration is a different awarding-agency overlay. This page is Department of Health and Human Services 075: $33,817,059,276.78 on 1,885 awards. Only place-of-performance Arkansas plus awarding agency 075 (Department of Health and Human Services) enter $33,817,059,276.78. Adjacent state codes are other filters, if they exist as ties at all.

Are these outlays?

No. The aggregate is obligations. The 1,885 figure is an award-record count. USAspending’s source note for this aggregate is that obligations are not outlays. Place of performance Arkansas is a geography tag, not a roster of residents, vendors, or named facilities.