This statistic shows the proportion of the overall health care costs in the United States that arose from medical malpractice payments from 1991 to 2015 in the United States. In 1991, such payments accounted for 0.27 percent of the overall health care costs.
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Medical malpractice payments as a percentage of overall health care costs in the U.S. from 1991 to 2015*
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This statistic shows the proportion of the overall health care costs in the United States that arose from medical malpractice payments from 1991 to 2015 in the United States. In 1991, such payments accounted for 0.27 percent of the overall health care costs.
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This statistic shows the proportion of the overall health care costs in the United States that arose from medical malpractice payments from 1991 to 2015 in the United States. In 1991, such payments accounted for 0.27 percent of the overall health care costs.
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- February 2017
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- United States
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- 1991 to 2015
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- * Malpractice payments made on behalf of doctors.
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- United States
- Survey time period
- 1991 to 2015
- Supplementary notes
- * Malpractice payments made on behalf of doctors.
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Statistics on "Physicians in the U.S."
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- Percentage of physicians more inclined to quit the medical profession because of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) as of 2015, by practice type
- Percentage of Physicians favoring the Affordable Care Act (ACA) as of 2015
- Physicians' opinions on how the Affordable Care Act (ACA) had impacted themselves and their patients as of 2015
- Physicians' opinions on how the Affordable Care Act (ACA) had negatively impacted them as of 2015, by practice type
- Characteristics of U.S. physicians in 2016
- Percentage of physicians feeling burned out in the U.S. as of 2017, by specialty
- Most common reasons for malpractice suits against U.S. physicians as of 2015
- Number of U.S. physicians in oncology specialties in 2016
- Number of medical malpractice payments made in the U.S. from 2010 to 2013, by injury type
- Percentage of patients who said the doctor was their first call for a health confidant as of 2015, by age
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- Distribution of annual medical costs for a family of four in the U.S. in 2001 and 2018
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- Physicians in patient care per 10,000 civilian population in the U.S. from 1975 to 2013*
- Leading 10 U.S. states based on the number of active primary care physicians as of 2018
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