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Congress set up a massive, $178 billion fund in 2020 meant to help mitigate the impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic on health care providers, known as the Provider Relief Fund.

The Trump and Biden administrations haven’t always been reliable about sending out the money — or sending it on time. But STAT’s new analysis of a Health and Human Services database of the money reveals where it’s flowing and who has received the most so far.

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By far, the largest payments were made to the nation’s biggest hospital systems. Fully five of the top 10 recipients of cash were New York City-area hospitals or health systems; together, they received some $3.1 billion. The New York and Presbyterian Hospital (usually styled “NewYork-Presbyterian”) alone brought in $631 million, topped only by the $1.2 billion that went to the New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation, a group that operates New York City’s sprawling system of public hospitals and clinics.

STAT is publishing the entire database here in a searchable and sortable format.

Many smaller providers also benefited from the program. Of the 412,591 payments published so far, the median was just $12,530. Ninety percent of all payments were below $192,569.

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Mississippi has the highest median payment amount of all states, at $17,563. The median payment in Vermont was the lowest, at $3,802. In Puerto Rico, a U.S. territory with a population greater than 21 states, the median payment was just $1,281. Puerto Rico also received less money overall than any state: $180,788,664 so far.

Below, explore all payments made to providers in each state. To get started, select a state and then click on the column headers in the table to sort by that column or use the search field to enter names of providers and/or cities to narrow down the results.