Health Care

Table: Medical Malpractice Payments for Individual Physicians, 2000

Published January 1, 2002

Medical Malpractice Payments for Individual Physicians, 2000
State	Median*	Total	Rank
Alabama	$200,000	$34,839,809	24
Alaska	100,000	3,244,459	51
Arizona	150,000	68,920,361	15
Arkansas	91,880	15,220,747	42
California	55,000	200,832,512	7
Colorado	84,997	34,590,151	25
Connecticut	200,000	72,233,556	13
Delaware	150,000	9,324,166	45
Florida**	175,000	321,079,744	3
Georgia	166,667	92,601,367	11
Hawaii	120,000	10,101,623	44
Idaho	100,000	8,553,166	47
Illinois	250,000	271,050,075	4
Indiana**	75,001	59,935,317	17
Iowa	100,000	27,218,617	30
Kansas	175,000	28,867,799	28
Kentucky	75,000	32,651,014	26
Louisiana	99,999	51,362,457	18
Maine	262,482	18,947,319	37
Maryland	150,000	70,318,417	14
Massachusetts	250,000	120,874,822	9
Michigan	85,000	79,040,011	12
Minnesota	100,000	19,099,414	36
Mississippi	127,750	24,560,080	32
Missouri	130,000	48,927,635	20
Montana	125,000	15,805,913	40
Nebraska**	116,250	14,137,915	43
Nevada	175,000	37,090,955	22
New Hampshire	111,000	16,972,268	39
New Jersey	175,000	191,540,088	8
New Mexico**	100,000	20,602,974	34
New York	150,000	632,996,221	1
North Carolina	132,500	68,044,766	16
North Dakota	143,750	4,719,024	49
Ohio	115,000	205,148,823	6
Oklahoma	121,000	28,664,501	29
Oregon	141,500	22,962,782	33
Pennsylvania	192,755	352,309,905	2
Rhode Island	100,000	17,826,074	38
South Carolina**	100,000	29,083,405	27
South Dakota	100,000	5,416,283	48
Tennessee	100,000	35,219,509	23
Texas	110,000	217,518,136	5
Utah	90,000	25,442,649	31
Vermont	75,000	3,318,284	50
Virginia	150,000	45,457,891	21
Washington	90,000	50,356,170	19
Washington, DC	197,500	98,753,106	10
West Virginia	100,000	19,370,928	35
Wisconsin**	162,857	9,309,938	46
Wyoming	100,000	15,650,157	41


The median amount is the 50th percentile of all the medical malpractice payments made by individual physicians practicing in these states in 2000. *Mean payments are understated for states with patient compensation funds. The insurer and patient compensation fund payments are treated as separate payments and are not aggregated. For example, a $200,000 primary and $800,000 CAT fund payment for the same incident would be counted as two separate payments and not aggregated as a single million-dollar payment.
Source: Pennsylvania Medical Society