Pharmacy benefit management and TPA federal obligations in Arizona (NAICS 524292)

What the 524292–Arizona join is

NAICS 524292 and geography AZ meet here. $755,613,363.64 is the USAspending.gov obligation sum on awards that carry both tags. It is not the nationwide PBM and other TPA services book, not Arizona’s entire federal inflow, and not an outlay. Pharmaceutical preparation manufacturing (325412) and retail pharmacy sit on other NAICS codes.

33 awards is a very short TPA list beside $755,613,363.64. A handful of rows can still hold a large commitment if a few administration vehicles dominate. The packet does not name a PBM brand, a Medicare contract, or a claims platform inside the extract. Treating 33 as a count of Arizona pharmacies would misread award records. Those labels are ordinary speech, not extra packet dollars.

Open Arizona federal spending for every industry tagged to the state, NAICS 524292 for 524292 without a Arizona filter, Arizona industries for other Arizona NAICS pairs, and All spending ties for joins outside this PBM and other TPA services cell. Do not add those parents into $755,613,363.64.

A thin award list next to a large TPA total

Dividing $755,613,363.64 by 33 awards yields about $22.90 million per award. That mean is a ratio of two packet facts, not a typical Phoenix claims-admin line and not a typical Tucson PBM order. Unique recipients are unpublished. 33 is not a count of members, claims, or pharmacies.

Arizona geography invites a Phoenix-versus-Tucson TPA story. This extract does not split those metros. All share AZ inside $755,613,363.64. Treating the cell as one named administrator’s budget adds a label the facts do not carry.

Nationwide 524292 without an Arizona overlay is a different total

The national industry hub aggregates 524292 across every state. Arizona’s statewide hub aggregates every NAICS with an AZ tag. Only awards that carry both 524292 and Arizona place of performance belong here, which is why this page cites 33 awards and $755,613,363.64.

Place of performance can follow a payee address, in-state work, or a reporting convention. 524292 awards coded to California, Texas, or Nevada do not enter this sum even if a vendor’s mailroom sits in Phoenix. The join cannot re-allocate dollars along a claims-admin chain.

Obligations, not outlays, on the Arizona 524292 cell

An obligation is a legal commitment. An outlay is a payment. $755,613,363.64 is the former. This packet has no outlay total, no fiscal-year split, and no de-obligation history. Citing the figure as claims already paid in Arizona over-reads the field. 33 remains an award-record count, not a payment count.

What the Arizona–524292 pair does not prove

A large PBM and other TPA services total in Arizona does not mean the code caused Arizona’s industry mix, and it does not connect these obligations to campaign contributions. Correlation is not causation. Formulary rules and member counts are not USAspending columns here.

Keep $755,613,363.64 labeled as NAICS 524292 obligations with Arizona place of performance. Arizona federal spending still includes other industries that must not be folded into this PBM and other TPA services cell. NAICS 524292 is 524292 without the Arizona filter. Arizona industries lists sibling Arizona codes.

How to cite PBM and TPA services in Arizona

A clean footnote names NAICS 524292 (PBM and other TPA services), Arizona place of performance, $755,613,363.64 in obligations, and 33 awards on USAspending.gov. Keep the obligation word. Mean dollars per action remain about $22.90 million. Do not merge 325412 into this administration bucket. All spending ties indexes other pairs.

A later ingest can restate $755,613,363.64 without changing the join of 524292 and AZ. Arizona federal spending still mixes every Arizona industry; do not quote that parent as 524292. NAICS 524292 is the national PBM and other TPA services code without the Arizona tag. Arizona industries keeps sibling Arizona codes unmerged. 33 is a record count, including modifications, not a unique-vendor census. Keep the obligation label on $755,613,363.64. Correlation is not causation. Thirty-three rows remain a record count, not a unique-PBM census.

Questions

How much has NAICS 524292 obligated in Arizona?

USAspending.gov records $755,613,363.64 in obligations for NAICS 524292 with Arizona place of performance, covering 33 awards. That is an obligation aggregate for the PBM and other TPA services–Arizona pair, not an outlay figure and not the nationwide 524292 total. Original filings remain on USAspending.gov.

Why so few 524292 awards relative to $756M in Arizona?

The extract lists 33 award actions totaling $755,613,363.64. A short row list can still hold a large dollar total if a few awards dominate. Average obligation per award is about $22.90 million, a ratio, not a typical claims-admin invoice. Unique recipients are not published on this packet.

Is this Arizona pharmaceutical manufacturing?

No. NAICS 524292 is pharmacy benefit management and other TPA services, not drug manufacturing. $755,613,363.64 covers 33 awards with Arizona place of performance under that administration code. Quote 524292 and Arizona together. Original filings remain on USAspending.gov.

Where are the live Arizona and 524292 tables?

Arizona federal spending shows all industries in the state. NAICS 524292 shows NAICS 524292 without a state filter. Arizona industries lists other Arizona industry pairs. All spending ties lists joins outside this cell. Prefer those hubs after later USAspending ingests.