S01659 Summary:

BILL NOS01659
 
SAME ASNo same as
 
SPONSORSAMPSON
 
COSPNSRPARKER
 
MLTSPNSR
 
Amd SS177.10, 177.15, 177.20 & 177.25, Pen L
 
Decreases certain amounts of payments wrongfully received that would trigger higher degrees of the crime of health care fraud.
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S01659 Actions:

BILL NOS01659
 
01/11/2011REFERRED TO CODES
01/04/2012REFERRED TO CODES
05/15/20121ST REPORT CAL.765
05/16/20122ND REPORT CAL.
05/21/2012ADVANCED TO THIRD READING
06/21/2012PASSED SENATE
06/21/2012DELIVERED TO ASSEMBLY
06/21/2012referred to codes
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S01659 Floor Votes:

There are no votes for this bill in this legislative session.
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S01659 Text:



 
                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                          1659
 
                               2011-2012 Regular Sessions
 
                    IN SENATE
 
                                    January 11, 2011
                                       ___________
 
        Introduced  by  Sen. SAMPSON -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Codes
 
        AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to health care fraud
 
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
 

     1    Section 1. Section 177.10 of the penal law, as added by chapter 442 of
     2  the laws of 2006, is amended to read as follows:
     3  § 177.10 Health care fraud in the fourth degree.
     4    A person is guilty of health care fraud in the fourth degree when such
     5  person, on one or more occasions, commits the crime of health care fraud
     6  in the fifth degree and the payment or portion of the payment wrongfully
     7  received,  as the case may be, from a single health plan, in a period of
     8  not more than one year, exceeds [three]  one  thousand  dollars  in  the
     9  aggregate.
    10    Health care fraud in the fourth degree is a class E felony.
    11    §  2.  Section 177.15 of the penal law, as added by chapter 442 of the
    12  laws of 2006, is amended to read as follows:
    13  § 177.15 Health care fraud in the third degree.

    14    A person is guilty of health care fraud in the third degree when  such
    15  person, on one or more occasions, commits the crime of health care fraud
    16  in the fifth degree and the payment or portion of the payment wrongfully
    17  received,  as the case may be, from a single health plan, in a period of
    18  not more than one year, exceeds  [ten]  five  thousand  dollars  in  the
    19  aggregate.
    20    Health care fraud in the third degree is a class D felony.
    21    §  3.  Section 177.20 of the penal law, as added by chapter 442 of the
    22  laws of 2006, is amended to read as follows:
    23  § 177.20 Health care fraud in the second degree.
    24    A person is guilty of health care fraud in the second degree when such
    25  person, on one or more occasions, commits the crime of health care fraud
    26  in the fifth degree and the payment or portion of the payment wrongfully
 

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD05879-01-1

        S. 1659                             2
 
     1  received, as the case may be, from a single health plan, in a period  of
     2  not  more than one year, exceeds [fifty] twenty-five thousand dollars in
     3  the aggregate.
     4    Health care fraud in the second degree is a class C felony.
     5    §  4.  Section 177.25 of the penal law, as added by chapter 442 of the
     6  laws of 2006, is amended to read as follows:
     7  § 177.25 Health care fraud in the first degree.
     8    A person is guilty of health care fraud in the first degree when  such
     9  person, on one or more occasions, commits the crime of health care fraud

    10  in the fifth degree and the payment or portion of the payment wrongfully
    11  received,  as the case may be, from a single health plan, in a period of
    12  not more than one year, exceeds  [one  million]  five  hundred  thousand
    13  dollars in the aggregate.
    14    Health care fraud in the first degree is a class B felony.
    15    § 5. This act shall take effect immediately.
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