# Penalty per day for a nursing facility's failure to meet Category 3 certification — Federal civil penalty maximums — current inflation-adjusted amounts across agencies

For Penalty per day for a nursing facility's failure to meet Category 3 certification, agency is HHS; maximum penalty is 27,378; minimum penalty is 8,351, recorded from its source on 2026-08-10.

- **Agency:** HHS _(our reading, not quoted from the source)_
- **Violation:** Penalty per day for a nursing facility's failure to meet Category 3 certification _(verified: appears in the quote below)_
- **Maximum penalty:** 27,378 _(verified: appears in the quote below)_
- **Minimum penalty:** 8,351 _(verified: appears in the quote below)_

## What the source says

> | <https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-42/section-488.408#p-488.408(e)(1)(iii)> 42 CFR 488.408(e)(1)(iii) | CMS | Penalty per day for a nursing facility's failure to meet Category 3 certification | 2024 | | | | | | Minimum | 2024 | 8,140 | 8,351 | | | | Maximum | 2024 | 26,685 | 27,378

## 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/).