Department of Health and Human Services obligations in Maryland 2nd District (MD-02)

A place-of-performance join: HHS × MD-02

Awarding agency 075 and congressional district MD-02 meet here. $11,592,351,242.36 is the USAspending.gov obligation sum on awards that carry both tags. It is not Department of Health and Human Services’s nationwide total, not every federal dollar coded to Maryland 2nd District (MD-02), and not an outlay register. The packet does not split HHS operating divisions or contract versus assistance instruments. 535 is an action count: modifications and repeat awards add rows. Unique recipients are unpublished. It is not a patient census, a beneficiary caseload, a clinical trial list, or a named-grantee file.

Dividing $11,592,351,242.36 by 535 yields about $21,667,946.25 per award on average. That ratio is two packet facts. It is not a typical contract, grant, or benefit line. 535 awards is a mid-size HHS file. The implied mean sits above a small-grant average and below a single-instrument domination story; the packet does not pick a typical line. Do not treat MD-02’s 075 cell as a synonym for every HHS account nationwide. Open Maryland 2nd District for the district table without this agency filter, Department of Health and Human Services for agency 075 without the MD-02 filter, Maryland federal spending for every awarding agency in the Maryland extract, and All spending ties for the rest of the join list. Quote those hubs as parents, not as addends to $11,592,351,242.36.

Department of Health and Human Services as awarding agency, not as a named-vendor list

USAspending labels awarding agency 075 as Department of Health and Human Services. That code produced $11,592,351,242.36 when crossed with Maryland 2nd District (MD-02) place of performance. The agency-wide 075 hub does not require MD-02 geography. The district hub does not require HHS. Only this tie applies both filters, which is why it cites 535 awards. The packet does not split HHS operating divisions or contract versus assistance instruments.

Correlation is not causation: Maryland 2nd District (MD-02) did not “cause” $11,592,351,242.36 by existing as a large or small place. Population, outcome scores, and named facilities are not packet facts. The join is 075 × MD-02 only. It is not a patient census, a beneficiary caseload, a clinical trial list, or a named-grantee file. Do not invent contractors or award recipients to fill the gap. Campaign donations on FEC tables do not fund this USAspending cell; the datasets are separate.

Place of performance for Maryland 2nd District (MD-02)

Maryland 2nd District (MD-02) on this join is a USAspending geography field, not a claim that every dollar was disbursed to residents of that district. Awards can list MD-02 while later work occurs elsewhere. Awards tagged to other Maryland districts belong on those ties even when the awarding agency is also 075. Maryland 2nd District (MD-02) is a numbered congressional place-of-performance code inside Maryland. Other Maryland districts are separate joins even when they reuse awarding-agency 075. Maryland 2nd District (MD-02) is distinct from Maryland 6th, 4th, 7th, and 8th. Same state, different place-of-performance codes, different HHS dollar totals.

Obligation math for this join

USAspending.gov records an obligation when the federal government commits funds on an award. $11,592,351,242.36 is that kind of sum for Department of Health and Human Services inside MD-02 coding. Later deobligations, recoveries, or payment schedules can change what leaves the Treasury without this join rewriting itself into a cash register. Assistance and contract awards can share the same awarding-agency rollup; this packet does not split them. Net obligations can include downward adjustments. This page reports $11,592,351,242.36 as given.

Maryland’s own budget is a separate ledger. Mixing it with the 535-row HHS cell leaves USAspending.gov. Treat 535 as award records in the aggregate, not unique vendors. Do not annualize without a year field in the packet. Do not per-capita or per-recipient the dollar total; those denominators are unpublished. The implied mean ($21,667,946.25) is a concentration statistic, not a typical MD-02 HHS payment.

What a complete citation includes

Cite USAspending.gov: Department of Health and Human Services (agency 075) obligated $11,592,351,242.36 on 535 awards coded to Maryland 2nd District (MD-02). Name Department of Health and Human Services and Maryland 2nd District (MD-02) together. Keep the obligation word. If Maryland 2nd District or Department of Health and Human Services has refreshed, prefer the live hub over this snapshot for current rows. The pair is not a patient census, a beneficiary caseload, a clinical trial list, or a named-grantee file. 36.4% of $31,874,433,614.85 is the district share on this packet, not a performance score.

Using 36.4% and $21,667,946.25 without overclaiming

535 awards is a mid-size HHS file. The implied mean sits above a small-grant average and below a single-instrument domination story; the packet does not pick a typical line. A large row count makes a program split tempting; the packet still does not supply one. A small row count makes a named-facility story tempting; the packet still does not name facilities or contractors. The implied mean (about $21,667,946.25) and the district share (36.4% of $31,874,433,614.85) are ratios of packet facts. Prefer Maryland 2nd District and Department of Health and Human Services if the live tables moved.

Do not rank Maryland 2nd District (MD-02) as more HHS-dependent than neighboring districts on the strength of this cell alone. Neighboring geographies have their own 075 ties with different dollar totals, or no published 075 cell in this harvest. This snapshot holds $11,592,351,242.36 and 535 only. All spending ties is the index, not an addend. Obligations are not outlays. Correlation is not causation.

Questions

How much HHS spending is coded to Maryland 2nd District (MD-02)?

USAspending.gov lists $11,592,351,242.36 in Department of Health and Human Services obligations across 535 awards with place of performance in Maryland 2nd District (MD-02). Agency 075 × MD-02 is an obligation join, not an outlay and not Maryland’s complete federal ledger. The cell is 36.4% of the district’s published total ($31,874,433,614.85). Unique recipients are unpublished. Average obligation is about $21,667,946.25, a ratio of those two facts only.

Does $11,592,351,242.36 include every HHS program in MD-02?

The packet publishes one awarding-agency rollup. The packet does not split HHS operating divisions or contract versus assistance instruments. $11,592,351,242.36 is the combined obligation sum for agency 075 inside MD-02 coding. This page will not invent a program pie or name contractors. Open Department of Health and Human Services and Maryland 2nd District to inspect parent tables. 535 remains an action count, not a program count.

Is $11,592,351,242.36 cash already paid in Maryland 2nd District (MD-02)?

No. Obligations are commitments recorded on USAspending.gov awards. Outlays — money that actually left the Treasury — are a different concept and are not this packet’s headline. Treating $11,592,351,242.36 as checks already cleared in Maryland 2nd District (MD-02) confuses those terms. Later ingests can revise 535 awards. Prefer the live district and agency hubs if the tables moved.

Is Maryland 2nd District (MD-02) ranked against other Maryland districts here?

No. This page does not rank Maryland 2nd District (MD-02) as a winner or loser. $11,592,351,242.36 and 535 describe one join. Neighboring districts have their own cells. District 90/98 placeholders are omitted. Cite Department of Health and Human Services and Maryland 2nd District (MD-02) together without a league table.