States with the Lowest and Highest Dollar Amount per Payment, 1999–2001
State | Average Malpractice Payment ($) | Total Payments 1999–2001 ($) | Payment per Person* ($) | Payments per 1,000 Physicians† No. | Payments per 100,000 Population‡ No. |
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* Mean payment amount per person in general population in each state (2000 Census Bureau Data). | |||||
† Number of payments per 1,000 practicing physicians in each state (AMA 2000 Masterfile). | |||||
‡ Number of payments per general population in each state (2000 Census Bureau Data). | |||||
Michigan | 113,695 | 243,762,850 | 24.53 | 89.28 | 21.57 |
Kansas | 150,592 | 68,670,050 | 25.54 | 80.32 | 16.96 |
California | 151,744 | 647,035,900 | 19.10 | 56.44 | 12.59 |
Nebraska | 160,882 | 35,233,100 | 20.59 | 60.13 | 12.80 |
New Mexico | 172,666 | 54,389,750 | 29.90 | 85.32 | 17.32 |
Alabama | 379,261 | 72,818,100 | 16.37 | 22.26 | 4.32 |
Massachusetts | 382,324 | 343,709,250 | 54.14 | 39.95 | 14.16 |
Illinois | 418,087 | 664,341,000 | 53.49 | 51.10 | 12.79 |
Connecticut | 472,984 | 222,775,300 | 65.42 | 44.08 | 13.83 |
District of Columbia | 560,059 | 104,731,000 | 183.08 | 53.69 | 32.69 |