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177.25 – Health care fraud in the first degree

§ 177.25 Health care fraud in the first degree.

A person is guilty of health care fraud in the first 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 one million dollars in the aggregate.

Health care fraud in the first degree is a class B felony.

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