For 2026, HRSA estimates that a health center spends an average of 184.2 staff hours on its UDS report, the yearly report of patient and service data that health centers send HRSA. That is down from 238 hours in HRSA's estimate for 2025, mostly because HRSA removed some lines from the report's tables and merged others.
184.2
staff hours per annual UDS report, 2026 estimate
For 2026, HRSA estimates that a health center spends an average of 184.2 staff hours on its UDS report, the yearly report of patient and service data that health centers send HRSA. That is down from 238 hours in HRSA's estimate for 2025, mostly because HRSA removed some lines from the report's tables and merged others.
The figure covers 1,596 respondents and comes from the notice HRSA sent to OMB for approval in June 2026.
Sources: HRSA Uniform Data System information collection notice, Federal Register, June 16, 2026 (opens in a new tab), Burden statement table, UDS Universal Report row, 91 FR 36150; HRSA Uniform Data System information collection notice, Federal Register, June 23, 2025 (opens in a new tab), Burden statement table, Universal Report row, 90 FR 26594. Verified October 2026.
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Sources for the figures above: HRSA Uniform Data System information collection notice, Federal Register, June 23, 2025 (opens in a new tab); HRSA Uniform Data System information collection notice, Federal Register, June 16, 2026 (opens in a new tab).
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238
staff hours per annual UDS report, 2025
HRSA estimates that a health center spends an average of 238 staff hours preparing its 2025 UDS report, the yearly report of patient and service data that health centers send HRSA.
Source: HRSA Uniform Data System information collection notice, Federal Register, June 23, 2025.
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fewer UDS reporting hours a year, nationally
HRSA estimates that total UDS reporting time drops by about 72,701 hours a year for 2026, mostly because it removed some lines from the report's tables and merged others.
Source: HRSA Uniform Data System information collection notice, Federal Register, June 16, 2026.
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patients served by HRSA-funded health centers in 2025
Health centers funded by HRSA served 32,746,392 patients in 2025, across 1,356 Health Center Program awardees, in HRSA's 2025 Uniform Data System.
Source: HRSA Uniform Data System, national data, 2025.
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Sources for the figures above: HRSA Uniform Data System information collection notice, Federal Register, June 23, 2025 (opens in a new tab); HRSA Uniform Data System information collection notice, Federal Register, June 16, 2026 (opens in a new tab); HRSA Uniform Data System, national data, 2025 (opens in a new tab).
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