HHS Confirms No 2026 Inflation Adjustment for HIPAA Civil Monetary Penalties, 2025 Levels Remain
HHS confirmed in the Federal Register that it will not apply an annual inflation multiplier to HIPAA civil monetary penalties in 2026, so the 2025 penalty levels stay in force. The cause is the lengthy fall 2025 government shutdown, which stopped the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) from producing the October 2025 CPI-U data needed to cal…