Medicare and State Health Care Programs and Program Fraud Civil Remedies: Fraud and Abuse; Civil Money Penalties Inflation Adjustments

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In accordance with Federal Civil Monetary Penalty Inflation Adjustment Act of 1990, as amended by the Debt Collection Improvement Act of 1996, this final rule incorporates the penalty inflation adjustments for the civil money penalties for health case fraud and abuse. These inflation adjustment calculations are not applicable to those civil money penalties contained in the Social Security Act, which are exempted from this adjustment.