Rural Health Transformation Program obligations in Iowa

One instrument, two keys in Iowa

CFDA 93.798 is titled RURAL HEALTH TRANSFORMATION PROGRAM. Crossed with Iowa place of performance, the obligation sum is $209,040,063.71 on 1 award. The national 93.798 hub includes other states. Iowa’s spending hub includes other programs. Only this intersection is reported here. $209,040,063.71 is an obligation aggregate from USAspending.gov, not an outlay and not a count of rural hospitals in Iowa.

A single award is a record-count pattern, not a proof that one hospital received the money. The join does not name Critical Access Hospitals, RHCs, or state agencies. Packet facts are $209,040,063.71, 1 award, IA, and 93.798. Correlation is not causation. Flex, SHIP, and other rural-health catalogs use different CFDA numbers.

93.798 is not Iowa Medicaid or Medicare

Medical Assistance Program and Medicare catalogs use different CFDA numbers. Mixing those into $209,040,063.71 would invent a broader coverage total than this cell contains. Facts available: Iowa, CFDA 93.798, $209,040,063.71, 1 award. Transformation workplans and facility lists are not in the facts.

The catalog title names Rural Health Transformation Program, not a claim about Iowa’s rural uninsured rate. With n = 1, a mean of $209,040,063.71 is just the total restated. Unique recipients are unpublished. 1 is not a count of hospitals.

Iowa geography on the 93.798 tag

IA is the place-of-performance code. A statewide transformation award can still appear as one record tagged to Des Moines or another in-state address. Awards coded to Illinois, Minnesota, Missouri, Wisconsin, Nebraska, or South Dakota stay outside $209,040,063.71 even when a referral crosses those lines.

Iowa federal spending is the all-program parent. 93.798 is one row on Iowa programs. $209.0 million is not the state’s complete federal footprint. Open Rural Health Transformation Program in Iowa for the filtered table, CFDA 93.798 for 93.798 without an Iowa filter, and All spending ties for other pairs. Do not add those parents into $209,040,063.71.

Reading n = 1 under Iowa’s 93.798 cell

When there is one award, average obligation equals $209,040,063.71. There is no distribution to summarize. The figure is still an obligation aggregate, not an outlay, and not proof that every dollar has been drawn. Downward modifications, if they exist in the raw file, are already netted into the total supplied in the facts.

Treat 1 as a record count in an aggregate, not as 1 finished transformation year. Without a transaction register on this page, you cannot see whether the row is a continuation, renewal, or correction. Later ingests can restate $209,040,063.71 without changing the join key of 93.798 and IA. West Virginia, North Dakota, and Utah 93.798 cells are separate joins.

What the Rural Health Transformation–Iowa pair does not prove

A large 93.798 total tagged to Iowa does not measure closures averted, workforce hired, or quality scores. It does not equal claims paid. FEC donations do not fund this USAspending cell. Correlation is not causation. The headline remains $209,040,063.71 on 1 award for Rural Health Transformation Program in Iowa.

Keep both sides of the join: Rural Health Transformation Program and Iowa, obligations only. Do not annualize $209,040,063.71 without a year field—this packet publishes none. Quote USAspending.gov and the overlay path rather than a rural-hospital story.

Using the 93.798–Iowa overlay

The overlay target is the Iowa × CFDA 93.798 table. Open Rural Health Transformation Program in Iowa when you want the same $209,040,063.71 / 1-award cell in the site’s data chrome. CFDA 93.798 drops the Iowa filter. Iowa federal spending drops the CFDA filter. Iowa programs lists other catalogs beside 93.798. All spending ties indexes other pairs.

This page exists because two tables meet: a CFDA program and a place-of-performance state. It does not exist to argue that Iowa won or lost federal money, that donations paid for the awards, or that obligations equal cash. The pair is 93.798 plus IA. Obligations of $209,040,063.71 are not outlays. Cite Rural Health Transformation Program together with Iowa whenever you reuse $209,040,063.71. 1 remains an award-record count on USAspending.gov, not a person, facility, or project census. The overlay path is the live table for this 93.798 × IA cell. Place of performance remains Iowa; CFDA remains 93.798. Do not fold Medicaid or Flex into $209,040,063.71. Do not treat 1 as a hospital roster. Cite USAspending.gov. Obligations of $209,040,063.71 are not outlays. The pair is Rural Health Transformation Program plus Iowa.

Questions

How much Rural Health Transformation Program funding is obligated in Iowa?

USAspending records $209,040,063.71 in CFDA 93.798 obligations with Iowa place of performance on 1 award. That is the pair total, not an outlay and not a hospital census. Keep Rural Health Transformation Program and Iowa together when citing $209,040,063.71.

Why is there only one 93.798 award in Iowa?

The facts show 1 award totaling $209,040,063.71. With one award, the mean equals the total. Recipient names are not in the packet facts. 1 is a record count, not a facility census. Original filings remain on USAspending.gov for this 93.798 × IA pair.

Is this Iowa’s total federal rural-health spending?

No. This join is CFDA 93.798 only. Other rural-health catalogs appear on separate Iowa program pages. Nationwide 93.798 is not limited to Iowa. Obligations of $209,040,063.71 are not outlays. The overlay is the live Rural Health Transformation–Iowa table.

Do campaign donations fund Iowa rural-health transformation awards?

No. FEC contribution files and USAspending award files are different datasets. This page reports $209,040,063.71 in 93.798 obligations tagged to Iowa. Correlation is not causation. Do not treat donations as the funding source.