The East Coast region has the highest malpractice payouts, while the Midwest has the lowest, according to a January report from Physicain’s Thrive.
Here are the 10 states and territories with the highest total payouts:
- New York: $6.298 billion
- Pennsylvania: $3.176 billion
- Florida: $3.080 billion
- California: $2.438 billion
- New Jersey: $2.373 billion
- Illinois: $2.336 billion
- Massachusetts: $1.626 billion
- Georgia: $1.405 billion
- Texas: $1.086 billion
- Maryland: $944.62 million
The 10 states and territories with the lowest total payouts:
- Idaho: $145.06 million
- Alaska: $138.35 million
- Puerto Rico: $128.53 million
- Delaware: $114.92 million
- Montana: $112.94 million
- South Dakota: $97.65 million
- District Columbia: $86.24 million
- Wyoming: $55.97 million
- Vermont: $55.11 million
- North Dakota: $24.89 million
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