N.Y. Penal Law Section 177.05
Health care fraud in the fifth degree

A person is guilty of health care fraud in the fifth degree when, with intent to defraud a health plan, he or she knowingly and willfully provides materially false information or omits material information for the purpose of requesting payment from a health plan for a health care item or service and, as a result of such information or omission, he or she or another person receives payment in an amount that he, she or such other person is not entitled to under the circumstances. Health care fraud in the fifth degree is a class A misdemeanor.

Source: Section 177.05 — Health care fraud in the fifth degree, https://www.­nysenate.­gov/legislation/laws/PEN/177.­05 (updated Sep. 22, 2014; accessed Jan. 17, 2026).

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