Department of Health and Human Services obligations 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.

Oregon geography in USAspending coding

Place of performance Oregon is a state code on the award, not a map of clinics and not a list of Oregon Health Authority offices. An award can name OR while a substantial share of activity happens in another state, or while the recipient’s legal address is elsewhere. Awards HHS codes to Washington or California do not add into this $74,442,796,497.99 even if the work touches the Pacific Northwest.

Treating the total as “federal health spending received by Oregonians” overstates what the geography field records. The Oregon federal spending hub is the place to see agency 075 next to other awarding agencies in the same state file.

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. $74,442,796,497.99 does not grow because a region “feels” connected. Recipient address can differ from that state tag.

Commitments, disbursements, and missing years

This aggregate reports obligations, not outlays. Money can be obligated in one period and paid in another, or never fully paid. The packet behind this page does not include a fiscal-year breakout, so this narrative does not assign $74,442,796,497.99 to a single year. Award count 4,321 is likewise not a payment count.

De-obligations, modifications, and multi-year vehicles can all sit under one award ID. The overlay table is the operational source; this tie page is the prose around the two keys.

Limits of the HHS–Oregon join

A large HHS obligation total in Oregon does not measure health outcomes, Medicaid enrollment, or the quality of any grant. It also does not fund, and is not funded by, Federal Election Commission receipts. Two public datasets can share a state name without sharing a dollar trail.

Related pages: Department of Health and Human Services in Oregon for the filtered rows, Oregon federal spending for the state rollup, Department of Health and Human Services for agency 075 nationwide in this inventory, and All spending ties for other pairs.

How to read this pair next to the hubs

Oregon’s HHS pair is a concentrated file: $74,442,796,497.99 on 4,321 awards, about $17.23 million per record on average.

Department of Health and Human Services in Oregon is the filtered table. Oregon federal spending drops the agency key. Department of Health and Human Services drops the state key. All spending ties is the rest of the index. Attach $74,442,796,497.99 to both keys whenever it is quoted. 4,321 is records, not people.

Commitments are not disbursements. This harvest has no outlay column and no year column, so $74,442,796,497.99 is not “spent this year.” Place of performance is not a resident-benefit census. Neighboring states are other codes. FEC filings are another system.

If the overlay later disagrees with this snapshot, trust the live table. Do not add this join to other agency overlays on the same state hub. Do not treat the per-award average as a forecast. The pair is $74,442,796,497.99 on 4,321 awards.

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.