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New York Consolidated Laws

N.Y. Penal Law § 177.10 (2026)

Health care fraud in the fourth degree

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§ 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.
Notes of Decisions
Cited in 1 case, 2011–2011 · leading case: People v. Khan, 82 A.D.3d 44 (N.Y. App. Div. 2011).
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People v. Khan, 82 A.D.3d 44 (N.Y. App. Div. 2011). · cites it 2× “20), and health care fraud in the fourth degree (Penal Law § 177.10), encompassing the transactions that occurred on February 28, March 6 and April 2, 2008.”
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