# Penalty for violation of confidentiality provision of the Patient Safety and Quality Improvement Act — Federal civil penalty maximums — current inflation-adjusted amounts across agencies

For Penalty for violation of confidentiality provision of the Patient Safety and Quality Improvement Act, agency is HHS; statutory authority is 299b-22(f)(1); maximum penalty is 15,846, recorded from its source on 2026-08-10.

- **Agency:** HHS _(our reading, not quoted from the source)_
- **Violation:** Penalty for violation of confidentiality provision of the Patient Safety and Quality Improvement Act _(verified: appears in the quote below)_
- **Statutory authority:** 299b-22(f)(1) _(verified: appears in the quote below)_
- **Maximum penalty:** 15,846 _(verified: appears in the quote below)_

## What the source says

> 299b-22(f)(1) | <https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-42/section-3.404> 42 CFR 3.404 | OCR | Penalty for violation of confidentiality provision of the Patient Safety and Quality Improvement Act | 2024 | 15,445 | 15,846

## 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/).