The Living HHS Open Data Plan is a multi-year, evolving blueprint (version 1.0, published July 2025) for implementing the OPEN Government Data Act (Evidence Act, Title II) across HHS. It embraces an "open by default" approach to data sharing, ensuring transparency, responsiveness, and accountability in delivering on HHS’s mission. Designed to adapt over time, this plan from the HHS Chief Data Officer with concurrence from all HHS Divisions fosters partnerships, public engagement, and data-driven collaboration by making HHS data more accessible, usable, and valuable for the public.

This data represents unaccompanied children who are taken into custody by Customs and Border Protection brought to a facility and processed for transfer to the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) as required by law. HHS holds the child for testing and quarantine, and shelters the child until the child is placed with a sponsor here in the United States.

Units of Response: Unaccompanied Children in HHS Care

Type of Data: Administrative

Tribal Data: No

Periodicity: Annual and Monthly

SORN: Not Applicable

Data Use Agreement: Unavailable

Data Use Agreement Location: Not Applicable

Granularity: County;State

Spatial: United States

Geocoding: County;State

This data represents unaccompanied alien children who are taken into custody by Customs and Border Protection brought to a facility and processed for transfer to the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) as required by law. HHS holds the child for testing and quarantine, and shelters the child until the child is placed with a sponsor here in the United States.

HHS contingency plan in case of a Lapse in government funding fiscal year 2025.

This HealthData.gov story accompanies the HHS press release (July 30, 2025), Living HHS Open Data Plan Published, HealthData.gov Refreshed to Provide Greater Transparency, Encourage Innovation, and Eliminate Information Silos.

This data is no longer being updated. New data is being tracked at https://healthdata.gov/National/HHS-Unaccompanied-Children-Program/ehpz-xc9n

This data represents unaccompanied children who are taken into custody by Customs and Border Protection brought to a facility and processed for transfer to the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) as required by law. HHS holds the child for testing and quarantine, and shelters the child until the child is placed with a sponsor here in the United States.

Information about children enrolled in the Head Start program and information about their families. Data about the children include: age, type of program attended, health status, and health treatment and/or special services required during enrollment. Data about the parents include: income, employment status and special services required during child(ren)’s enrollment. Contact the Head Start Enterprise System (HSES) Help Desk to request access help@hsesinfo.org.

Provides program names, program features, population enrolled, benefits covered, quality assurance and improvement, performance incentives, provider value-based purchasing, participating plans, regions served and program notes.

This letter provides guidance to states concerning the Federal Register notice dated September 8, 2003 that brought U.S. Department of Health and Human Services entitlement grant programs under 45 CFR Part 92.

Metadata-only record linking to the original dataset. Open original dataset below.

Provides program names, program features, population enrolled, benefits covered, quality assurance and improvement, performance incentives, provider value-based purchasing, participating plans, regions served and program notes.

State-reported annual data collected on the presence of elderly, disabled, and young children in eligible households receiving Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP) heating assistance, cooling assistance, crisis assistance or weatherization assistance.

HHS contingency plan in case of a lapse in government funding fiscal year 2026.

HHS is providing support to healthcare providers fighting the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic through the bipartisan Coronavirus Aid, Relief, & Economic Security (CARES) Act; the Paycheck Protection Program and Health Care Enhancement Act (PPPHCEA); and the Coronavirus Response and Relief Supplemental Appropriations (CRRSA) Act, which provide a total of $178 billion for relief funds to hospitals and other healthcare providers on the front lines of the COVID-19 response. This funding supports healthcare-related expenses or lost revenue attributable to COVID-19 and ensures uninsured Americans can get treatment for COVID-19. HHS is distributing this Provider Relief Fund (PRF) money and these payments do not need to be repaid.

The Department allocated $50 billion in PRF payments for general distribution to Medicare facilities and providers impacted by COVID-19, based on eligible providers' net reimbursement. HHS has made other PRF distributions to a wide array of health care providers and more information on those distributions can be found here: https://www.hhs.gov/coronavirus/cares-act-provider-relief-fund/data/index.html

Program Information for Medicaid and CHIP Beneficiaries by Month

  Description

This data set includes monthly enrollment counts of Medicaid and CHIP beneficiaries by program type (Medicaid or CHIP). These metrics are based on data in the T-MSIS Analytic Files (TAF). Some states have serious data quality issues for one or more months, making the data unusable for calculating these measures. To assess data quality, analysts adapted measures featured in the DQ Atlas. Data for… See the full description on the dataset page: https://huggingface.co/datasets/HHS-Official/program-information-for-medicaid-and-chip-benefici.

The Medicaid Managed Care Enrollment Report profiles enrollment statistics on Medicaid managed care programs on a plan-specific level. The managed care enrollment statistics include enrollees receiving comprehensive benefits and limited benefits and are point-in-time counts.

1. The information in this table was provided by state officials. In some cases, program or plan names in this table differ from those used in publicly available sources. Questions regarding state-specific information in this table should be directed to State/territorial Medicaid officials.

The Medicaid Managed Care Enrollment Report profiles enrollment statistics on Medicaid managed care programs on a plan-specific level. The managed care enrollment statistics include enrollees receiving comprehensive benefits and limited benefits and are point-in-time counts.

1. Because Medicaid beneficiaries may be enrolled concurrently in more than one type of managed care program (e.g., a Comprehensive MCO and a BHO), users should not sum enrollment across all program types, since the total would count individuals more than once and, in some states, exceed the actual number of Medicaid enrollees.

2. Comprehensive MCOs cover acute, primary, and specialty medical care services; they may also cover behavioral health, long-term services and supports, and other benefits in some states. Limited benefit managed care programs, including PCCM, MLTSS only, BHO, Dental, Transportation, and Other cover a narrower set of services.

3. The “Total Medicaid Enrollees” column represents an unduplicated count of all beneficiaries in FFS and any type of managed care, including Medicaid-only and dually eligible individuals receiving full Medicaid benefits or Medicaid cost sharing.

"--" indicates states that do not operate programs of a given type. 0 signifies that a state operated a program of this type in 2014, but it ended before July 1, 2014, or began after that date.

Office of Head Start (OHS) Program Fact Sheet provides information on demographics, state allocations, program statistics, and program enrollment history.

The Medicare & Medicaid Electronic Health Record (EHR) Incentive Programs provide incentives to eligible ambulatory and inpatient providers to adopt electronic health records. This dataset provides the counts of health care providers that have reported a developer's product through participation in the Medicare EHR Incentive Program. The data are provided beginning in 2011. This dataset enables the tracking of trends in the adoption of healthIT by developer and by both office-based health care providers and non-federal acute-care hospitals. Filter the data by Program Year to get the most recent counts by health care provider type. The most recent data is available through the 2016 Program Year.

Context

The CMS National Plan and Provider Enumeration System (NPPES) was developed as part of the Administrative Simplification provisions in the original HIPAA act. The primary purpose of NPPES was to develop a unique identifier for each physician that billed medicare and medicaid. This identifier is now known as the National Provider Identifier Standard (NPI) which is a required 10 digit number that is unique to an individual provider at the national level.

Once an NPI record is assigned to a healthcare provider, parts of the NPI record that have public relevance, including the provider’s name, speciality, and practice address are published in a searchable website as well as downloadable file of zipped data containing all of the FOIA disclosable health care provider data in NPPES and a separate PDF file of code values which documents and lists the descriptions for all of the codes found in the data file.

Content

The dataset contains the latest NPI downloadable file in an easy to query BigQuery table, npi_raw. In addition, there is a second table, npi_optimized which harnesses the power of Big Query’s next-generation columnar storage format to provide an analytical view of the NPI data containing description fields for the codes based on the mappings in Data Dissemination Public File - Code Values documentation as well as external lookups to the healthcare provider taxonomy codes . While this generates hundreds of columns, BigQuery makes it possible to process all this data effectively and have a convenient single lookup table for all provider information.

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Acknowledgements

https://bigquery.cloud.google.com/dataset/bigquery-public-data:nppes?_ga=2.117120578.-577194880.1523455401

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Dataset Source: Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services. This dataset is publicly available for anyone to use under the following terms provided by the Dataset Source - http://www.data.gov/privacy-policy#data_policy — and is provided "AS IS" without any warranty, express or implied, from Google. Google disclaims all liability for any damages, direct or indirect, resulting from the use of the dataset.

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President Trump is providing support to healthcare providers fighting the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic through the bipartisan Coronavirus Aid, Relief, & Economic Security Act and the Paycheck Protection Program and Health Care Enhancement Act, which provide a total of $175 billion for relief funds to hospitals and other healthcare providers on the front lines of the COVID-19 response. This funding supports healthcare-related expenses or lost revenue attributable to COVID-19 and ensures uninsured Americans can get treatment for COVID-19. HHS is distributing this Provider Relief Fund (PRF) money and these payments do not need to be repaid. The Department allocated $50 billion in PRF payments for general distribution to Medicare facilities and providers impacted by COVID-19, based on eligible providers' net reimbursement. HHS has made other PRF distributions to a wide array of health care providers and more information on those distributions can be found here: https://www.hhs.gov/coronavirus/cares-act-provider-relief-fund/data/inde...