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[CITE: 18USC1347]

 
                 TITLE 18--CRIMES AND CRIMINAL PROCEDURE
 
                             PART I--CRIMES
 
                         CHAPTER 63--MAIL FRAUD
 
Sec. 1347. Health care fraud

    Whoever knowingly and willfully executes, or attempts to execute, a 
scheme or artifice--
        (1) to defraud any health care benefit program; or
        (2) to obtain, by means of false or fraudulent pretenses, 
    representations, or promises, any of the money or property owned by, 
    or under the custody or control of, any health care benefit program,

in connection with the delivery of or payment for health care benefits, 
items, or services, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not 
more than 10 years, or both. If the violation results in serious bodily 
injury (as defined in section 1365 of this title), such person shall be 
fined under this title or imprisoned not more than 20 years, or both; 
and if the violation results in death, such person shall be fined under 
this title, or imprisoned for any term of years or for life, or both.

(Added Pub. L. 104-191, title II, Sec. 242(a)(1), Aug. 21, 1996, 110 
Stat. 2016.)

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in section 24 of this title.