# Purchased/Referred Care

**Agency:** Health & Human Services  
**Account:** Purchased/Referred Care  
**Source document:** Indian Health Service · p. 16  
**Vintage:** President's Budget PB2027  
**Canonical URL:** https://hitchintel.com/budget/hhs/purchased-referred-care  

> **Trust:** parsed from the agency Congressional Justification. Approximate, **not summable**, verify at the cited page.

## Funding ($M)

| Fiscal year | Basis | Amount |
| --- | --- | --- |
| FY2025 | enacted | 996.8 |
| FY2026 | enacted | 996.8 |
| FY2027 | request | 1,054.5 |

## Health & Human Services discretionary budget authority (OMB PBDB — authoritative)

FY2027 $91.60B, FY2026 $131.10B. This is the agency total, not a sum of the parsed lines.


## What this funds

Purchases essential health care services not available at IHS or tribal facilities-including specialty, inpatient, and emergency care-from private providers for eligible American Indians and Alaska Natives.


**Where it sits:** Civilian / Non-Defense › Health & Human Services › Indian Health Service › Purchased/Referred Care


*HitchAI is an independent intelligence service, not affiliated with the U.S. government. Civilian line dollars are parsed from agency Congressional Justifications and are approximate.*