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

Rhode Island malpractice payment aggregates from the HRSA National Practitioner Data Bank Public Use File: 989 reports, $229,812,500 total payments, mean $232,369 (1990–2004). All figures RECORDED verbatim from HRSA NPDB PUF. Historical data. CC0.

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

- **Rhode Island had 989 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)
- **Rhode Island NPDB total malpractice payments: $229,812,500 (1990–2004)** — RECORDED · HRSA NPDB Public Use File (https://www.hrsa.gov/data/national-practitioner-data-bank/data-request/public-use-data-file)
- **Rhode Island NPDB mean malpractice payment: $232,369** — 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/ri.jsonld` · anatomy of the research object: see /commons/the-research-object

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