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title: Guam — HRSA NPDB Malpractice Payments (1991–2003)
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source: HRSA NPDB Public Use File
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# Guam — HRSA NPDB Malpractice Payments (1991–2003)

Guam malpractice payment aggregates from the HRSA National Practitioner Data Bank Public Use File: 13 reports, $4,388,750 total payments, mean $337,596 (1991–2003). All figures RECORDED verbatim from HRSA NPDB PUF. Historical data. CC0.

## Claims

### Guam had 13 malpractice reports in the NPDB PUF (1991–2003)

**RECORDED.** HRSA's National Practitioner Data Bank Public Use File records 13 malpractice payment reports for practitioners in Guam covering the period 1991–2003. Each report represents a payment made on behalf of a licensed practitioner in connection with a malpractice claim.

Source: HRSA NPDB Public Use File — https://www.hrsa.gov/data/national-practitioner-data-bank/data-request/public-use-data-file
Falsifier: A RECORD of measured/reported events (occurred=true) from HRSA NPDB Public Use File; superseded when HRSA NPDB Public Use File publishes its next release.

### Guam NPDB total malpractice payments: $4,388,750 (1991–2003)

**RECORDED.** The HRSA NPDB PUF records $4,388,750 in total malpractice payments across 13 payment reports for Guam over the period 1991–2003. Payments are in nominal (not inflation-adjusted) dollars as reported.

Source: HRSA NPDB Public Use File — https://www.hrsa.gov/data/national-practitioner-data-bank/data-request/public-use-data-file
Falsifier: A RECORD of measured/reported events (occurred=true) from HRSA NPDB Public Use File; superseded when HRSA NPDB Public Use File publishes its next release.

### Guam NPDB mean malpractice payment: $337,596

**RECORDED.** Dividing the total reported payments by the number of payment reports yields a mean payment of approximately $337,596 for Guam over the 1991–2003 period. This is a simple arithmetic mean; distribution is highly skewed — individual payments vary widely.

Source: HRSA NPDB Public Use File — https://www.hrsa.gov/data/national-practitioner-data-bank/data-request/public-use-data-file
Falsifier: A RECORD of measured/reported events (occurred=true) from HRSA NPDB Public Use File; superseded when HRSA NPDB Public Use File publishes its next release.

### What the NPDB PUF data is — and is NOT

**INTERPRETATION.** The NPDB Public Use File (PUF) covers malpractice payment reports submitted to HRSA from 1991 through 2003. This is historical data — the PUF was a discontinued public release; it does not represent current malpractice rates, current premiums, or current insurer behavior. The counts represent reports of payments, not verdicts, settlements, or individual incidents; one incident may generate multiple reports. The data is NOT a physician quality rating, an insurance premium predictor, or an endorsement of any legal standard.

Source: Coverage Atlas L5 boundary (NPDB PUF historical aggregate ≠ current malpractice risk) — https://coverage-atlas.ryanjhunter.workers.dev/
Falsifier: occurred=FALSE (a framing, not an event) and adjudged=FALSE (an in-house reading, not an authority's verdict) — the LOWEST-warrant claim here. A flat representation would render this identically to the official facts; the four-status does not.

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Every claim above carries a four-status warrant (RECORDED / MODELED / DERIVED / INTERPRETATION) and a named source you can re-fetch — this is a research object, not a flat fact. Structured: `https://coverage-atlas.ryanjhunter.workers.dev/coverage/malpractice/states/gu.jsonld`

## Data

### Guam — NPDB malpractice payment aggregates (1991–2003)

All figures RECORDED (verbatim from HRSA NPDB Public Use File). Historical data — covers 1991–2003 only. Payments are in nominal (non-adjusted) dollars. This is NOT a current malpractice risk score, premium index, or practitioner quality rating.

| Field | Value | Warrant |
| --- | --- | --- |
| State | Guam | RECORDED |
| State abbreviation | GU | RECORDED |
| Earliest year in data | 1991 | RECORDED |
| Latest year in data | 2003 | RECORDED |
| Malpractice report count | 13 | RECORDED |
| Payment report count | 13 | RECORDED |
| Total payments (USD) | 4388750 | RECORDED |
| Mean payment (USD) | 337596 | RECORDED |