Legislation
SECTION 177.10
Health care fraud in the fourth degree
Penal (PEN) CHAPTER 40, PART 3, TITLE K, ARTICLE 177
§ 177.10 Health care fraud in the fourth degree.
A person is guilty of health care fraud in the fourth degree when such
person, on one or more occasions, commits the crime of health care fraud
in the fifth degree and the payment or portion of the payment wrongfully
received, as the case may be, from a single health plan, in a period of
not more than one year, exceeds three thousand dollars in the aggregate.
Health care fraud in the fourth degree is a class E felony.
A person is guilty of health care fraud in the fourth degree when such
person, on one or more occasions, commits the crime of health care fraud
in the fifth degree and the payment or portion of the payment wrongfully
received, as the case may be, from a single health plan, in a period of
not more than one year, exceeds three thousand dollars in the aggregate.
Health care fraud in the fourth degree is a class E felony.