---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 C.F.R. § 457.560"
title: "42"
number: "457.560"
heading: "Cumulative cost-sharing maximum."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/42/457.560"
---

# §457.560. Cumulative cost-sharing maximum.

- (a) A State may not impose premiums, enrollment fees, copayments, coinsurance, deductibles, or similar cost-sharing charges that, in the aggregate, exceed 5 percent of a family's total income for the length of a child's eligibility period in the State.
- (b) The State must inform the enrollee's family in writing and orally if appropriate of their individual cumulative cost-sharing maximum amount at the time of enrollment and reenrollment.

## Notes

### Amendments

[66 FR 2681, Jan. 11, 2001, as amended at 66 FR 33824, June 25, 2001]

### Source

Source: 66 FR 2681, Jan. 11, 2001, unless otherwise noted.

### Authority

Authority: 42 U.S.C. 1302.

### Source

Source: 65 FR 33622, May 24, 2000, unless otherwise noted.

### Amendments

[66 FR 2681, Jan. 11, 2001, as amended at 66 FR 33824, June 25, 2001]