---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 C.F.R. § 1003.1000"
title: "42"
number: "1003.1000"
heading: "Basis for civil money penalties, assessments, and exclusions."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/42/1003.1000"
---

# §1003.1000. Basis for civil money penalties, assessments, and exclusions.

- (a) The OIG may impose a penalty, an assessment, and an exclusion against any person who it determines offers or transfers remuneration (as defined in [§ 1003.110](/cfr/42/1003.110.md)) to any individual eligible for benefits under Medicare or a State health care program that such person knows, or should know, is likely to influence such individual to order or to receive from a particular provider, practitioner, or supplier, any item or service for which payment may be made, in whole or in part, under Medicare or a State health care program.
- (b) The OIG may impose a penalty against any person who it determines offered any financial or other incentive for an individual entitled to benefits under Medicare not to enroll, or to terminate enrollment, under a group health plan or a large group health plan that would, in the case of such enrollment, be a primary plan as defined in [section 1862(b)(2)(A)](/cfr/42/1862.md?p=b-2-A) of the Act.

## Notes

### Source

Source: 81 FR 88362, Dec. 7, 2016, unless otherwise noted.

### Authority

Authority: 42 U.S.C. 262a, 300jj-52, 1302, 1320a-7, 1320a-7a, 1320b-10, 1395u(j), 1395u(k), 1395cc(j), 1395w-141(i)(3), 1395dd(d)(1), 1395mm, 1395nn(g), 1395ss(d), 1396b(m), 11131(c), and 11137(b)(2).

### Source

Source: 51 FR 34777, Sept. 30, 1986, unless otherwise noted.