Cabinet department
Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)
$1.8 Trillion committed in FY2023
- Mission
- It is the mission of the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) to enhance and protect the health and well-being of all Americans. We fulfill that mission by providing for effective health and human services and fostering advances in medicine, public health, and social services.
- Sub-agencies
- 15 bureaus and offices
- Website
- https://www.hhs.gov/ ↗
- Agency code
- 075
How the money flows
Committed dollars by how the money leaves HHS.
Direct payments
$999.7B
55%
Grants
$773.6B
42%
By sub-agency
The bureaus and offices inside HHS, by dollars committed.
Where the money goes
Top destinations of HHS's committed dollars. Direct payments to individuals (Medicare, Social Security, …) are aggregated by the government, so they show as the federal program rather than a named recipient.
Medicare Supplementary Medical InsuranceProgram
$486.7B
Medicare Hospital InsuranceProgram
$390.2B
What they buy
Top products and services HHS buys under contract, by dollars committed.
Drugs and Biologicals
$5.8B
Support- Professional: Other
$5.7B
Health R&D Services; Health Care - Other; Applied Research
$2.3B
Health R&D Services; Health Care Services; Basic Research
$1.8B
It and Telecom - Business Application/Application Development Support Services (Labor)
$1.7B
Health R&D Services; Health Care Services; Applied Research
$1.7B
Health R&D Services; Health Care Services; Experimental Development
$1.4B
Social- Government Health Insurance Programs
$1.0B
Medical and Surgical Instruments, Equipment, and Supplies
$879.4M
In Vitro Diagnostic Substances, Reagents, Test Kits and Sets
$879.3M
Awards
The largest individual awards issued by HHS.
Competition
How competitively HHS's contract dollars were awarded. 'Not available' is legitimate sole-source (a single source — utilities, proprietary parts); 'not competed' is the flag worth a second look.
Competed
$32.9B
86%
Not competed
$4.5B
12%
Not available for competition
$1.1B
Contract set-asides
Contract dollars HHS reserved before bidding for a specific kind of firm — small business, 8(a), service-disabled-veteran, women-owned, HUBZone — versus full and open competition.
Small business
$1.8B
5%
8(a)
$1.3B
3%
Service-disabled veteran
$104.9M
<1%
Where it lands
Top states by place of performance — where HHS's work is done or its money lands, by dollars committed.
Minnesota
$169.1B
California
$146.8B
By fiscal year
Committed dollars grew 64% across FY2018–FY2025. HHS's committed dollars per fiscal year, FY2018–FY2026.
* FY2026 is year-to-date — the fiscal year is still in progress, so its total is still filling in. The striped band and dashed line mark that provisional stretch.
How to read these numbers
- Committed, not paid
Every figure is money this agency committed — legally promised by signing a contract or awarding a grant — counted in the year each action happened, not cash out the door.
- From FY2018 on
Agency pages start at fiscal year 2018, the first year of complete federal-assistance reporting. Earlier years aren't shown rather than shown wrong.
- Awards, counted once
An award count is the number of distinct awards with at least one action that year — each counted once, however many times it was amended.
- Benefits show as programs
Medicare, Social Security, and other direct payments to individuals are aggregated by the government, so under Where the money goes they appear as the program, not a named recipient.
- The colored bars
Every bar on this page splits by how the money moves:
Direct payments
