American Rescue Plan Rural Provider Payments by State and ZIP Code

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services released American Rescue Plan payments to providers serving rural Medicaid, CHIP, and Medicare beneficiaries from January 1, 2019 through September 30, 2020. The dataset is published by data.cdc.gov and was last updated on June 20, 2023. It includes columns for State, Rural Location, Provider Name, Payment, City, and ZIP.

Use Cases

• Analyze payment distribution by State and Rural Location to identify funding disparities.
• Map provider payments by ZIP code to visualize geographic coverage of relief funds.
• Identify high-payment recipients by sorting the Payment column for Provider Name.
• Group data by City to assess the concentration of funds in specific rural municipalities.

Strengths

• Data covers a specific 21-month period from January 2019 to September 2020.
• Includes six distinct columns for granular analysis of provider and location.
• Published by an authoritative source, data.cdc.gov, via the Socrata platform.

Limitations

• Row count and total dataset size are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.

Provenance

Source

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) via the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), published on data.cdc.gov.

Collection Method

Payments released to providers and suppliers under the American Rescue Plan.

Time Range

January 1, 2019 through September 30, 2020.

Freshness

Last updated 2023-06-20 16:35:31; freshness should be verified.

Geography

United States, indicated by State, City, and ZIP columns.