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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- Physicians in patient care per 10,000 civilian population in the U.S. from 1975 to 2015*Physicians in patient care in the U.S. 1975-2015 by age
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- Mean physician compensation by U.S. region as of 2018 (in 1,000 U.S. dollars)Mean physician compensation by U.S. region 2018
- Top 10 U.S. states by annual compensation for physicians as of 2018 (in U.S. dollars)Top U.S. states by annual compensation for physicians 2018
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- Amount of time U.S. primary care physicians spent with each patient as of 2018
- Percentage of physicians in the U.S. that have feelings of professional burnout as of 2018
- Percentage of physicians feeling burned out in the U.S. as of 2018, by specialty
- Characteristics of U.S. physicians in 2018
- Distribution of U.S. physicians' opinions on the future of medical professions from 2012 to 2018
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- Number of medical malpractice payments made in the U.S. from 2010 to 2013, by injury type
- Cumulative spending growth on U.S. health care in 2008-2017, by sector (in billion U.S. dollars)
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