[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 5, Volume 2]
[Revised as of January 1, 2005]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 5CFR890.1060]

[Page 501]
 
                    TITLE 5--ADMINISTRATIVE PERSONNEL
 
          CHAPTER I--OFFICE OF PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT (CONTINUED)
 
PART 890_FEDERAL EMPLOYEES HEALTH BENEFITS PROGRAM--Table of Contents
 
Subpart J_Administrative Sanctions Imposed Against Health Care Providers
 
Sec. 890.1060  Purpose and scope of civil monetary penalties and assessments.

    (a) Civil monetary penalty. A civil monetary penalty is an amount 
that OPM may impose on a health care provider who commits one of the 
violations listed in Sec. 890.1061. Penalties are intended to protect 
the integrity of FEHBP by deterring repeat violations by the same 
provider and by reducing the likelihood of future violations by other 
providers.
    (b) Assessment. An assessment is an amount that OPM may impose on a 
provider, calculated by reference to the claims involved in the 
underlying violations. Assessments are intended to recognize monetary 
losses, costs, and damages sustained by OPM as the result of a 
provider's violations.
    (c) Definitions. In Sec. Sec. 890.1060 through 890.1072:
    Penalty means civil monetary penalty; and
    Penalties and assessments may connote the singular or plural forms 
of either of those terms, and may represent either the conjunctive or 
disjunctive sense.
    (d) Relationship to debarment and suspension. In addition to 
imposing penalties and assessments, OPM may concurrently debar or 
suspend a provider from participating in the FEHBP on the basis of the 
same violations.
    (e) Relationship to other penalties provided by law. The penalties, 
assessments, debarment, and suspension imposed by OPM are in addition to 
any other penalties that may be prescribed by law or regulation 
administered by an agency of the Federal Government or any State.