N.Y. Penal Law Section 177.15
Health care fraud in the third degree

A person is guilty of health care fraud in the third 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 ten thousand dollars in the aggregate. Health care fraud in the third degree is a class D felony.

Source: Section 177.15 — Health care fraud in the third degree, https://www.­nysenate.­gov/legislation/laws/PEN/177.­15 (updated Sep. 22, 2014; accessed Jan. 17, 2026).

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