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N.Y. Penal Law § 177.20 (2026)

Health care fraud in the second degree

✓ current as of May 2026
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§ 177.20 Health care fraud in the second degree.
  A person is guilty of health care fraud in the second 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 fifty thousand dollars in the aggregate.
  Health care fraud in the second degree is a class C felony.
Notes of Decisions
Cited in 2 cases (2 in the last 5 years), 2025–2026 · leading case: Matter of Gillman, 2025 NY Slip Op 01996 (N.Y. App. Div. 2025).
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Matter of Gillman, 2025 NY Slip Op 01996 (N.Y. App. Div. 2025). · cites it 2× “Accordingly, we conclude that 18 USC § 1347 is not essentially similar to Penal Law § 177.20 and deny that part of AGC's motion seeking to strike respondent's name from the roll of attorneys as a consequence of his federal felony conviction.”
People v. Ariyarajah, 2026 NY Slip Op 03684 (N.Y. App. Div. 2026). “319/19 and health care fraud in the second degree (Penal Law § 177.20) under Indictment No. 74295/21.”
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