# Penalty for someone other than issuer that sells a Medicare supplemental policy and fails to make available for sale the core group of basic benefits when selling other Medicare supplemental policies with additional benefits or fails to provide the individual, before selling the policy, an outline of coverage describing benefits — Federal civil penalty maximums — current inflation-adjusted amounts across agencies

For Penalty for someone other than issuer that sells a Medicare supplemental policy and fails to make available for sale the core group of basic benefits when selling other Medicare supplemental policies with additional benefits or fails to provide the individual, before selling the policy, an outline of coverage describing benefits, agency is HHS; statutory authority is 1395ss(p)(9)(C); maximum penalty is 35,466, recorded from its source on 2026-08-10.

- **Agency:** HHS _(our reading, not quoted from the source)_
- **Violation:** Penalty for someone other than issuer that sells a Medicare supplemental policy and fails to make available for sale the core group of basic benefits when selling other Medicare supplemental policies with additional benefits or fails to provide the individual, before selling the policy, an outline of coverage describing benefits _(verified: appears in the quote below)_
- **Statutory authority:** 1395ss(p)(9)(C) _(verified: appears in the quote below)_
- **Maximum penalty:** 35,466 _(verified: appears in the quote below)_

## What the source says

> 1395ss(p)(9)(C) | <https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-42/section-402.1#p-402.1(c)(26)> 42 CFR 402.1(c)(26) , <https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-42/section-402.105#p-402.105(e)> 402.105(e) , <https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-42/section-402.105#p-402.105(f)(3)> 402.105(f)(3) , <https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-42/section-402.105#p-402.105(4)> (4) | CMS | Penalty for someone other than issuer that sells a Medicare supplemental policy and fails to make available for sale the core group of basic benefits when selling other Medicare supplemental policies with additional benefits or fails to provide the individual, before selling the policy, an outline of coverage describing benefits | 2024 | 34,568 | 35,466

## Source

- https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-45/subtitle-A/subchapter-A/part-102/section-102.3

Last verified: 2026-08-10. Review by: 2027-02-26.
Part of [Federal civil penalty maximums — current inflation-adjusted amounts across agencies](https://referencesource.org/federal-civil-penalty-maximums/).