{"jurisdiction": "us-ny", "code": "penal", "section": "177.20", "citation": "Penal Law § 177.20", "heading": "Health care fraud in the second degree", "text": ["§ 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."], "official_source": "https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/laws/PEN/177.20", "from_official_api": true, "plain_english": "A person commits second-degree health care fraud by **committing fifth-degree health care fraud on 1 or more occasions** and wrongfully receiving, from **1 health plan within no more than 1 year**, aggregate payments **exceeding $50,000**. ★ It is a **class C felony**.", "in_force_on": "2026-05-31", "retrieved": "2026-09-27", "url": "https://elyphived.com/us-ny/penal/177.20", "publisher": "Elyphived LLC"}