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

Massachusetts malpractice payment aggregates from the HRSA National Practitioner Data Bank Public Use File: 4,836 reports, $1,217,088,650 total payments, mean $251,673 (1990–2004). All figures RECORDED verbatim from HRSA NPDB PUF. Historical data. CC0.

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

- **Massachusetts had 4,836 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)
- **Massachusetts NPDB total malpractice payments: $1,217,088,650 (1990–2004)** — RECORDED · HRSA NPDB Public Use File (https://www.hrsa.gov/data/national-practitioner-data-bank/data-request/public-use-data-file)
- **Massachusetts NPDB mean malpractice payment: $251,673** — 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/ma.jsonld` · anatomy of the research object: see /commons/the-research-object

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