# Penalty for any issuer of a Medicare supplemental policy that does not waive listed time periods if they were already satisfied under a proceeding Medicare supplemental policy, or denies a policy, or conditions the issuances or effectiveness of the policy, or discriminates in the pricing of the policy base on health status or other specified criteria — Federal civil penalty maximums — current inflation-adjusted amounts across agencies

For Penalty for any issuer of a Medicare supplemental policy that does not waive listed time periods if they were already satisfied under a proceeding Medicare supplemental policy, or denies a policy, or conditions the issuances or effectiveness of the policy, or discriminates in the pricing of the policy base on health status or other specified criteria, agency is HHS; statutory authority is 1395ss(s)(4); maximum penalty is 25,095, recorded from its source on 2026-08-10.

- **Agency:** HHS _(our reading, not quoted from the source)_
- **Violation:** Penalty for any issuer of a Medicare supplemental policy that does not waive listed time periods if they were already satisfied under a proceeding Medicare supplemental policy, or denies a policy, or conditions the issuances or effectiveness of the policy, or discriminates in the pricing of the policy base on health status or other specified criteria _(verified: appears in the quote below)_
- **Statutory authority:** 1395ss(s)(4) _(verified: appears in the quote below)_
- **Maximum penalty:** 25,095 _(verified: appears in the quote below)_

## What the source says

> 1395ss(s)(4) | <https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-42/section-402.1#p-402.1(c)(29)> 42 CFR 402.1(c)(29) , <https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-42/section-402.105#p-402.105(c)> 402.105(c) | CMS | Penalty for any issuer of a Medicare supplemental policy that does not waive listed time periods if they were already satisfied under a proceeding Medicare supplemental policy, or denies a policy, or conditions the issuances or effectiveness of the policy, or discriminates in the pricing of the policy base on health status or other specified criteria | C2024 | 24,460 | 25,095

## 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/).