# American Samoa — HRSA NPDB Malpractice Payments (1998–2003) — context brief

American Samoa malpractice payment aggregates from the HRSA National Practitioner Data Bank Public Use File: 7 reports, $544,500 total payments, mean $77,786 (1998–2003). All figures RECORDED verbatim from HRSA NPDB PUF. Historical data. CC0.

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

- **American Samoa had 7 malpractice reports in the NPDB PUF (1998–2003)** — RECORDED · HRSA NPDB Public Use File (https://www.hrsa.gov/data/national-practitioner-data-bank/data-request/public-use-data-file)
- **American Samoa NPDB total malpractice payments: $544,500 (1998–2003)** — RECORDED · HRSA NPDB Public Use File (https://www.hrsa.gov/data/national-practitioner-data-bank/data-request/public-use-data-file)
- **American Samoa NPDB mean malpractice payment: $77,786** — 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/as.jsonld` · anatomy of the research object: see /commons/the-research-object

**American Samoa — NPDB malpractice payment aggregates (1998–2003)** (8): State — American Samoa — RECORDED; State abbreviation — AS — RECORDED; Earliest year in data — 1998 — RECORDED…