ACC paid out more than $70 million in treatment injury and medical misadventure claims between last January and September, figures show.
The biggest payout was $233,844 to a patient who suffered a haemorrhage during treatment, Official Information Act figures released to the Dominion Post showed.
Payments were for such things as botched surgery and missed diagnoses. About 6400 treatment injury claims were made and 3153 accepted, 1607 declined and 1650 to be decided.
The biggest individual payouts were the haemorrhage, $103,469 for a leaky surgical join, $83,867 for a wound infection, $66,078 for a disease progression and $49,817 for an internal bleed which became infected.
