Source collection · Provider Relief Fund
HHS Provider Relief Fund and ARP Rural payment files
Two HRSA payment lists as data.cdc.gov publishes them: 419,846 Provider Relief Fund payments and 47,087 American Rescue Plan Rural payments, one row per provider.
What it is
The Provider Relief Fund paid hospitals, clinics, dentists, nursing homes and individual practitioners for lost revenue and covid-related costs. The ARP Rural distribution paid providers serving rural patients out of a separate American Rescue Plan appropriation. Each file is a payment list: provider name, where the provider is, and how much it received in total. The ARP Rural file adds a ZIP code and a yes/no flag for rural location.
Neither file identifies a provider by TIN or NPI, and neither carries application, denial, reporting or recoupment records. A payment total is what these files establish.
Where it comes from
Both were pulled on 2026-07-21 straight from the Socrata export endpoints on data.cdc.gov, which hand back the whole dataset rather than the API's default first page. The SHA-256 of each file is in the table below, and it is the checksum recorded in the acquisition manifest on the day of the download.
An earlier copy of the Provider Relief Fund dataset in this archive stopped at 50,000 rows, because it was pulled through the API's default row limit. It is kept as a superseded partial copy and is not part of this release.
Files
Every file below was re-hashed on 2026-09-18 against the checksum written in its acquisition manifest on 2026-07-21 and against the audit evidence file. 2 of 2 matched.
| File | Rows | Size | SHA-256 | Preserved copy | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
arp-rural-payments-full.csv | 47,087 measured | 3.2 MB | 4e70ae007f906b428f8cc1ebadc6d4fe06c1dca07eeb87f48a5f82d142eea6b8 | verified 2026-07-21 | Official copy ↗ Download (3.2 MB) |
hhs-provider-relief-fund-full.csv | 419,846 measured | 19.7 MB | e3c2b8faee4cfb83f04ea9e4e03dd4bfcde853fa12d5faf684c9f9f8b03a332e | verified 2026-07-21 | Official copy ↗ Download (19.7 MB) |
Columns
The Provider Relief Fund file has four columns: Provider Name, State, City, Payment. The ARP Rural file has six: Provider Name, City, State, ZIP, Payment, Rural Location. Column meanings come from the headers; neither dataset ships a data dictionary.
Column-level detail for each file, with observed types and value counts, is in the schema JSON linked above.
Caveats
- Payment is a currency-formatted string, not a number: the PRF file writes "$113,026" and the ARP Rural file writes "$ 1,364.65" with padding spaces. Parse before arithmetic; the bytes are published unchanged.
- Provider-level payment totals only. No TIN, no NPI, no application or denial records, no recoupment or reporting-compliance status.
- The PRF file carries Provider Name, State, City, Payment (419,846 data rows). The ARP Rural file carries Provider Name, City, State, ZIP, Payment, Rural Location (47,087 data rows).
- An older copy of PRF dataset kh8y-3es6 truncated at 50,000 rows sits in the repo as datasets/raw/hhs/prf/hhs_prf_kh8y-3es6_limit50000.csv. It is superseded and is NOT part of this release.
- No publisher landing page was captured for either dataset in the 2026-07-21 run; only the Socrata export URLs are recorded, so publisher-side caveat text is not preserved yet.
HHS Provider Relief Fund and ARP Rural payment files, 2026-07-21, as preserved by Pandemic Darlings, release pandemic-darlings-data-v3-2026-09-18, https://pandemicdarlings.com/data/hhs-prf-arp-rural-2026-07-21/