title: Patient safety and quality improvement: civil money penalty inflation adjustment. Direct final rule.
abstract: The Department of Health and Human Services amends the Patient Safety and Quality Improvement Rule by adjusting for inflation the maximum civil money penalty amount for violations of the confidentiality provisions of the Rule. We are amending the penalty amount to comply with the Federal Civil Penalties Inflation Adjustment Act of 1990. We are using direct final rulemaking for this action because we expect that there will be no significant adverse comment on the rule.
mesh_terms: D035881:Compensation and Redress / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D003219:Confidentiality / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D006801:Humans; D007250:Inflation, Economic; D011785:Quality Assurance, Health Care / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D012449:Safety / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence; D014481:United States