# Alaska — HRSA NPDB Malpractice Payments (1991–2004) — context brief

Alaska malpractice payment aggregates from the HRSA National Practitioner Data Bank Public Use File: 352 reports, $64,999,050 total payments, mean $184,656 (1991–2004). All figures RECORDED verbatim from HRSA NPDB PUF. Historical data. CC0.

Claims (warrant · source), each re-fetchable to verify:

- **Alaska had 352 malpractice reports in the NPDB PUF (1991–2004)** — RECORDED · HRSA NPDB Public Use File (https://www.hrsa.gov/data/national-practitioner-data-bank/data-request/public-use-data-file)
- **Alaska NPDB total malpractice payments: $64,999,050 (1991–2004)** — RECORDED · HRSA NPDB Public Use File (https://www.hrsa.gov/data/national-practitioner-data-bank/data-request/public-use-data-file)
- **Alaska NPDB mean malpractice payment: $184,656** — RECORDED · HRSA NPDB Public Use File (https://www.hrsa.gov/data/national-practitioner-data-bank/data-request/public-use-data-file)
- **What the NPDB PUF data is — and is NOT** — INTERPRETATION · Coverage Atlas L5 boundary (NPDB PUF historical aggregate ≠ current malpractice risk) (https://coverage-atlas.ryanjhunter.workers.dev/)

Do not take these on trust — re-fetch each named source. Full structured object: `https://coverage-atlas.ryanjhunter.workers.dev/coverage/malpractice/states/ak.jsonld` · anatomy of the research object: see /commons/the-research-object

**Alaska — NPDB malpractice payment aggregates (1991–2004)** (8): State — Alaska — RECORDED; State abbreviation — AK — RECORDED; Earliest year in data — 1991 — RECORDED…