Rural Healthcare Telecommunications Funding Commitments and Disbursements

Funding decisions, committed amounts, and disbursements for the FCC's Rural Health Care Program, collected from self-reported FCC Forms 462, 466, and 466A. The data includes details on applicants, service providers, funding years, and geographic locations of participating health care providers. It is published by datahub.usac.org and was last updated in April 2026.

Use Cases

• Analyze funding allocation trends by Funding Year, Fund Type, and Filing HCP State.
• Map the geographic distribution of funded health care providers using Participating HCP Latitude and Participating HCP Longitude.
• Model the relationship between Gross Demand, Total Committed Amount, and Total Authorized Disbursement Amount.
• Assess service quality metrics like Latency and Jitter against funding amounts and Service Level Agreement terms.
• Identify common applicant profiles by cross-referencing Filing HCP Entity Type, Participating HCP Entity Type, and Eligible Site.

Strengths

• Contains detailed geospatial coordinates for both filing and participating health care provider locations.
• Includes multiple specific financial and programmatic metrics such as Gross Demand, Prorata Factor, and Service Level Agreement.

Limitations

• All data is self-reported by applicants, which may introduce reporting inaccuracies or biases.
• The temporal coverage and total row count are unknown, limiting longitudinal analysis.
• Sample data is unavailable, preventing assessment of data completeness and value distributions prior to download.

Provenance

Source

datahub.usac.org

Collection Method

Self-reported data collected from FCC Forms 462, 466, and 466A.

Freshness

Last updated on 2026-04-03.

Geography

United States, inferred from FCC program and state/county columns.