Department of Health and Human Services obligations in the District of Columbia

HHS in the District beside Defense in the District

Two District relationship pages appear in this slice. This one is 075 × DC. $27,846,682,753.46 is the HHS obligation sum. 4,158 is the HHS award count. The District also has a Defense overlay; that is a different awarding-agency code. The two files are not added here.

About $6.70 million per award is the ratio. Headquarters awards coded to DC can describe administrative performance even when later work occurs in Maryland or Virginia. Those other states are outside $27,846,682,753.46.

A useful check on $27,846,682,753.46 is to ask what 4,158 records implies. A large sum on few rows concentrates. A large sum on many rows dilutes the mean. That check is still not a ranking of states. It is a reading of this file’s shape.

Agency 075 without the District filter

The Department of Health and Human Services hub drops DC and will not equal $27,846,682,753.46. The District hub drops 075. Overlay /states/dc/agencies/075/ is the both-keys table for 4,158 awards.

The architecture is simple. One hub is the agency without geography. One hub is the geography without this agency. One overlay is both. $27,846,682,753.46 and 4,158 belong to the overlay. The hubs answer different questions.

DC is not the capital region

Place of performance District of Columbia excludes Maryland and Virginia. HHS awards coded to MD or VA are outside $27,846,682,753.46 even when the commuting area is shared. Place of performance is not a resident-benefit census.

The District of Columbia federal spending hub shows 075 next to 097. Table neighbors are not a combined capital-region score.

Geography here is the place-of-performance state on the award, not a metro name, not a commuting zone, and not a list of neighboring states. $27,846,682,753.46 does not grow because a region “feels” connected. Recipient address can differ from that state tag.

Obligations on 4,158 records

The published $27,846,682,753.46 is a commitment aggregate. Outlays are unpublished. No year is in the facts. Award count is not unique vendors and not an enrollment figure.

Citing the total as money “spent on District residents” would over-read both fields.

What the join does not show

HHS obligations in the District do not measure national health policy outcomes. They do not connect USAspending to FEC donations. See Department of Health and Human Services in District of Columbia, District of Columbia federal spending, Department of Health and Human Services, and All spending ties.

How to read this pair next to the hubs

The District’s HHS pair is $27,846,682,753.46 on 4,158 awards. Maryland and Virginia stay outside the geography tag.

Navigation: Department of Health and Human Services in District of Columbia for the pair, District of Columbia federal spending for all agencies on this geography, Department of Health and Human Services for this agency without the state, All spending ties for other joins. Quote $27,846,682,753.46 with both keys. Quote 4,158 as records.

Legal commitments can be de-obligated. Payments can trail. This page has the commitment field only. $27,846,682,753.46 is therefore not a cash figure. The geography field is not a services roster.

Snapshot versus live table: if they diverge, the overlay wins. Do not forecast from the average. Do not blend FEC and USAspending. The intersection is $27,846,682,753.46 on 4,158 awards.

When two overlays share a state, they still do not share a ledger. Adding this $27,846,682,753.46 to another awarding agency’s total on the same geography would invent a combined figure the packet does not publish. 4,158 would not be comparable across agencies anyway, because reporting volume differs. The correct move is to read each overlay separately, then use District of Columbia federal spending if a side-by-side of agencies is required, and Department of Health and Human Services if a side-by-side of states for this agency is required. All spending ties lists the other pairs without summing them.

Researchers sometimes want a per-capita figure, a year split, or a list of top recipients under $27,846,682,753.46. 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: 4,158 award records summing to $27,846,682,753.46 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 District of Columbia remains the filtered table. District of Columbia 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 the District of Columbia?

USAspending records $27,846,682,753.46 in obligations for agency 075 with District of Columbia place of performance, on 4,158 awards. That is the HHS–District join only. The pair is awarding agency 075 (Department of Health and Human Services) and place-of-performance District of Columbia.

Does this include Maryland or Virginia?

No. Place of performance is DC only. Maryland and Virginia are outside $27,846,682,753.46 and outside the 4,158 awards. Only place-of-performance District of Columbia plus awarding agency 075 (Department of Health and Human Services) enter $27,846,682,753.46. Adjacent state codes are other filters, if they exist as ties at all.

Is DoD in the District included?

No. Department of Defense is a different awarding-agency overlay. This page is Department of Health and Human Services 075: $27,846,682,753.46 on 4,158 awards. Only place-of-performance District of Columbia plus awarding agency 075 (Department of Health and Human Services) enter $27,846,682,753.46.

Are these outlays to District residents?

No. The aggregate is obligations on awards tagged to 075 and DC place of performance. Outlays can differ. Place of performance is not a resident-benefit census. USAspending’s source note for this aggregate is that obligations are not outlays. Place of performance District of Columbia is a geography tag, not a roster of residents, vendors, or named facilities.