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Public Citizen mentioned in Axios on the failure of HHS to report medical malpractice payments

Axios

The Health and Human Services Department hasn’t reported medical malpractice payments to a federal database, despite its legal obligation to do so, according to the liberal advocacy group Public Citizen.

HHS is supposed to disclose those payments via a federal database, but more than 60% of them have gone unreported since 1994, Public Citizen says, citing information obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request.

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