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Practitioner Data Bank: Information on Small Medical Malpractice Payments

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Report Type Reports and Testimonies
Report Date July 7, 1992
Report No. IMTEC-92-56
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Summary:

The National Practitioner Data Bank, which has been open since September 1990, allows the Department of Health and Human Services to collect and release information on medical malpractice payments and professional actions against doctors, dentists, and other health care professionals. In response to congressional concerns that small payments are often considered meritless and implicate physicians who want to avoid the expense of going to court, this report (1) identifies and analyzes the range of malpractice payments reported to the data bank and (2) discusses the views of key health care service and professional organizations on including small malpractice payments in the data bank.

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