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

West Virginia malpractice payment aggregates from the HRSA National Practitioner Data Bank Public Use File: 2,140 reports, $421,542,750 total payments, mean $196,983 (1990–2004). All figures RECORDED verbatim from HRSA NPDB PUF. Historical data. CC0.

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

- **West Virginia had 2,140 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)
- **West Virginia NPDB total malpractice payments: $421,542,750 (1990–2004)** — RECORDED · HRSA NPDB Public Use File (https://www.hrsa.gov/data/national-practitioner-data-bank/data-request/public-use-data-file)
- **West Virginia NPDB mean malpractice payment: $196,983** — 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/wv.jsonld` · anatomy of the research object: see /commons/the-research-object

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