# California — HRSA NPDB Malpractice Payments (1990–2004) — context brief

California malpractice payment aggregates from the HRSA National Practitioner Data Bank Public Use File: 29,183 reports, $2,944,761,100 total payments, mean $100,910 (1990–2004). All figures RECORDED verbatim from HRSA NPDB PUF. Historical data. CC0.

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

- **California had 29,183 malpractice reports in the NPDB PUF (1990–2004)** — RECORDED · HRSA NPDB Public Use File (https://www.hrsa.gov/data/national-practitioner-data-bank/data-request/public-use-data-file)
- **California NPDB total malpractice payments: $2,944,761,100 (1990–2004)** — RECORDED · HRSA NPDB Public Use File (https://www.hrsa.gov/data/national-practitioner-data-bank/data-request/public-use-data-file)
- **California NPDB mean malpractice payment: $100,910** — 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/ca.jsonld` · anatomy of the research object: see /commons/the-research-object

**California — NPDB malpractice payment aggregates (1990–2004)** (8): State — California — RECORDED; State abbreviation — CA — RECORDED; Earliest year in data — 1990 — RECORDED…