Despite all the fingers pointed toward malpractice litigation as a cause of rising healthcare expenses, total malpractice payments made on behalf of doctors in 2009–$3.49 billion–represent just 0.14 of 1 percent of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ estimated $2.5 trillion in overall U.S. healthcare spending for the same year, according to a consumer advocacy association’s analysis of National Practitioner Data Bank records.
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